Rotary International

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Rotary International

• The Rotary Club of Reston presents
• This is Rotary

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About Rotary

• Rotary is a worldwide organization of business
  and professional leaders that provides
  humanitarian service, encourages high ethical
  standards in all vocations, and helps build
  goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately
  1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000
  clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical
  areas.

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Who Joins Rotary?

• Rotary club membership represents a cross-section
  of the community's business and professional men
  and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly
  and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to
  all cultures, races and creeds.

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Rotary History
Rotary Founder Paul Harris
The world's first service club, the Rotary Club
of Chicago, Illinois, USA, was formed on 23
February 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who
wished to recapture in a professional club the
same friendly spirit he had felt in the small
towns of his youth. The name "Rotary" derived
from the early practice of rotating meetings
among members' offices.
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Four Avenues of Service

• Club Service focuses on strengthening fellowship
  and ensuring the effective functioning of the
  club.
• Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to serve
  others through their vocations and to practice
  high ethical standards.
• Community Service covers the projects and
  activities the club undertakes to improve life in
  its community.
• International Service encompasses actions taken
  to expand Rotary's humanitarian reach around the
  globe and to promote world understanding and
  peace.

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Rotary Foundation

• Polio Plus . . .
• Polio is a highly infectious disease that
  primarily affects children under the age of three
  and can cause paralysis within hours.
• Before eradication efforts began in 1988, polio
  paralyzed more than 1,000 children a day, which
  totaled about 350,000 children annually. The
  incidence of polio has since declined by more
  than 99 percent.
• Vaccinations easily can stave off polio.
  Vaccinations have prevented an estimated 500,000
  children per year from contracting polio. A child
  can be protected against polio for as little as
  60 cents (US) worth of vaccine.
• Only four countries are still polio endemic an
  all-time low Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and
  Afghanistan.

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Rotary Foundation

• Educational Programs . . .
• Ambassadorial Scholarships
• Group Study Exchange
• Rotary World Peace Scholarships
• Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace
  and Conflict Resolution
• Rotary Grants for University Teachers

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Object of Rotary

• The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster
  the ideal of service as a basis of worthy
  enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and
  foster
• FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an
  opportunity for service
• SECOND. High ethical standards in business and
  professions, the recognition of the worthiness of
  all useful occupations, and the dignifying of
  each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to
  serve society
• THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in
  each Rotarian's personal, business, and community
  life
• FOURTH. The advancement of international
  understanding, goodwill, and peace through a
  world fellowship of business and professional
  persons united in the ideal of service.

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Four Way Test

• 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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Rotary Organization

• Rotary is organized at club, district, zones, and
  international levels to carry out its program of
  service. Rotarians are members of their clubs,
  and the clubs are members of the global
  association known as Rotary International. Each
  club elects its own officers and enjoys
  considerable autonomy within the framework of the
  standard constitution and the constitution and
  bylaws of Rotary International.

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Rotarys Vision

• Rotary will be recognized for its leadership and
  success in the eradication of polio.
• Rotary will have a strong and visible presence
  worldwide.
• Rotary will achieve enhanced capacity for
  friendship and service through a strong
  organization with increased and diverse
  membership.
• Rotary will advance its ideals of high ethical
  standards, international understanding, goodwill,
  and peace through a membership united in service.
  

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Our Club

• The Rotary Club of Reston is a service club of
  professional men and women serving the community
  in and around Reston, Va. The Club was chartered
  on November 20, 1970, and has been making an
  impact in the area for more than 35 years.
  Members are business professionals, executives,
  and owners who live or work in Reston and
  surrounding locales.

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What we Expect

• Regular Attendance
• Club Participation
• Adherence to the Principles of Rotary

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Service Opportunities

• There are many ways to get involved . . .
• Join a committee
• Attend a Board Meeting
• Get to know fellow Rotarians
• Identify a need in the community
• Propose a new member
• Become a Paul Harris Fellow

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Now, its your turn . . .

• Do you have any questions/comments?

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Fireside Chat

• Thanks for your attendance and participation in
  this Fireside Chat.
• I hope that you enjoy being a Rotarian.
• Have fun!