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ROTARY is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Visit www.rotary.org
ROTARY is the world’s first service club. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 23 February 1905.
ROTARY is some 1.2 million service-minded men and women belonging to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs in virtually every nation in the world.
ROTARIANS meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programs dealing with topics of local and global importance. Membership reflects a wide cross-section of community representation.
ROTARIANS plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs that touch people’s lives in their local communities and our world community.
ROTARY is The Rotary Foundation, which each year provides some US$90 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people. Rotary is widely regarded as the world’s largest private provider of international educational scholarships.
ROTARY is PolioPlus, Rotary’s commitment to work with national and international health organizations on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary’s 100th anniversary. More than one billion children in developing nations have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants.
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In 1932, Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor created The Four-Way Test, a code of ethics adopted by Rotary 11 years later. The test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, asks the following questions: Of the things we think, say or do Is it the TRUTH? Is it FAIR to all concerned? Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
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The mission of Rotary International, a worldwide association of Rotary clubs, is to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders. |
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The records of the Rotary Club of Savannah state that John S. Banks and Henry J.F. Ludeman were the co-founders of the club. Through John Banks' business contacts (Piano Distributors), Ben Lee Crew, VP of Atlanta Rotary and John E. Shelby of Birmingham, International Rotary VP, were invited to Savannah to assist in the starting of the club. Twenty-four businessmen attended the January 5, 1914 meeting and eighteen joined. Twenty-four additional businessmen joined at the charter meeting on January 12, 1914. These forty-two men are the Charter Members of our Rotary Club. Attorney Edmund H. Abrahams applied for the charter from Rotary International. |
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