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About Rotary |
This is Rotary
Rotary is an opportunity to build lifelong friendships and experience the personal fulfillment of providing volunteer service to others. An organization of business and professional leaders, Rotary provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and builds goodwill and peace in the world. The world's first service club, Rotary began with the formation of the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA on February 23, 1905.
The club was started by a young lawyer, Paul P. Harris, and three of his friends. He wished to recapture the friendly spirit he had felt among businesspeople in the small town where he had grown up. Their weekly meetings "rotated" among their offices, providing the new service club with its name. Today, Rotary Flourishes with some 28,000 clubs and 1.2 million men and women as club members, providing community service in virtually every nation in the world. The Avenues of Service1. Club service -- providing service to the Rotary club to enable it to run efficiently in the spirit of fellowship; 2. Vocational service -- putting high standards of conduct into practice in the business and professional lives of Rotarians; 3. Community service -- identifying needs in the Rotary club's community and addressing these needs with service projects; 4. International service -- working for international understanding and peace by promoting goodwill between all people. "This is Rotary" is a Rotary International publication |
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