Who is Uptown Rotary?
Uptown Rotary is known for our friendly atmosphere, our great speaker programs, and our lovely setting at the Minikahda Club overlooking
What is Rotary?
Rotary is an organization of business and professional people united world-wide who provide humanitarian service, encourage ethical standars in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
Who Belongs to Rotary?
The Rotary classification system ensures professional diversity among its members by limiting the number of members in a given vocation. This system creates a cross section of the business and professional community and a more enriching experience.
UPTOWN ROTARY was chartered in 1988 shortly after women were admitted to Rotary. Women comprise about one third of our membership. Our group's average age is 40ish.
What is the Object of Rotary?
From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The 4-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.
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:
This 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The 4-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways.
It asks the following four questions:
"Of the things we think, say or do:
What are the Four Avenues of Service?
Community service responds to the needs of a local community. Rotary clubs should determine top priorities for service projects by first learning about a community's needs and assets, and then developing a response that addresses them.
Club service is the participating in one's own club, working on committees to further the goals of Rotary, and serving in club leadership roles.
As business leaders, Rotarians share their skills and expertise through vocational service, one of the Four Avenues of Service. Your vocational service efforts can play a vital role in improving the quality of life for those hardworking members of the community who need direction and expertise. By participating in any of a number of vocational service activities mentoring, career days, vocational awards, business assistance, or even talking about your job at a club meeting members can turn experience into an invaluable resource for others.
The development of understanding and goodwill among Rotarians and among the people at large is the specific task of International Service in Rotary. International Service can be broken down into four general areas as follows:
1) World Community Service Activities
2) International Educational and Cultural Exchange Activities
3) Special International Observances and Events
4) International Meetings.