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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.
When used by itself, the word “Rotary“normally
refers to the entire organization, Rotary International.
Rotary International (RI) is the association of Rotary clubs
throughout the world. The membership of RI consists of Rotary
clubs that continue to perform the obligations imposed by
the constitutional documents. Rotarians are members of their
respective clubs.
Rotary International is the world's oldest service club organization.
The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago,
Illinois, USA, was formed on 23 February 1905. Now, there
are 1.206.670 Rotarians (30 September 2005) in the world in
32.317 clubs (30 September 2005) in 168 countries
The purposes of RI are to
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Support the clubs and
districts of RI in their pursuit of programs and activities
that promote the Object of Rotary |
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Encourage, promote, extend, and
supervise Rotary throughout the world |
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Coordinate and generally direct
the activities of RI
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Definition
of Rotary
In 1976, the Rotary International Board of Directors
was interested in creating a concise definition of the fundamental
aspects of Rotary. They turned to the three men who were then
serving on RI’s Public Relations Committee and requested
that a one-sentence definition of Rotary be prepared. After
numerous drafts, the committee presented this definition,
which has been used ever since in various Rotary publications:
“Rotary is an organization of business and professional
persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service,
encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help
build goodwill and peace in the world.”
More Details On: www.rotary.org
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