Rotary is an organization
of business, professional and community leaders united worldwide who provide
humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and
help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 160 countries
worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000
Rotary clubs.
Rotary club membership
represents a cross-section of each community's business and professional men
and women, as well as community leaders. The world's Rotary clubs meet
weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and
creeds.
What Does Rotary Do?
The main
objective of Rotary is service — in the community, in the workplace, and
throughout the world. Rotarians develop service projects that address many of
today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, disabled persons,
health care, international understanding and goodwill, literacy and numeracy,
population issues, poverty and hunger, the environment, clean water, and Polio
eradication. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities
and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals,
and vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.
Rotary Objectives
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.
Rotary
Meetings
Rotarians
meet once a week for fellowship, committee planning and to hear a speaker from
the community. Speakers have included sports stars, political and religious
figures, FBI agents, Generals, motivational speakers, and special awards
programs for scholarships and recognition of our police, fire and EMS personnel.
Rotary
Ethics:The Four-Way Test
Of the
things we, Rotarians, think, say or do
1. Is
it the TRUTH?
2. Is
it FAIR to all concerned?
3.
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4.
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Meeting Time & Location Information
Tuesday at 11:30 AM St. David's Episcopal Church 301 E. 8th Street Austin, Texas 78701 map it USA
Contact Information
Teresa Basa, Executive Director phone: (512) 462-1333 fax: (512) 440-0073 contact us www.Rotary-Austin.org
****$1 parking vouchers are sold at each meeting ($7 regular price)****
****Enter parking garage from Trinity Street.*****
Meade Bauer
