ROTARY BROCHURE

DEPOSIT ROTARY CLUB

Deposit Rotary club, a Broome/Delaware County Community Club,
Chartered 1947

Meets Wednesdays -- 12:00 Noon at the United Methodist Church, Second St., Deposit, NY.

WHAT IS ROTARY?

Rotary is an organization of business and professional men and women, united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build good will and peace in the world.

Each Rotary Club meets weekly so members may enjoy each other's fellowship and discuss the Club's service goals. Our club meets from noon to 1:00 pm each Wednesday at the United Methodist Church.

Each club is part of a Rotary District, ours being District 7170 covering a large part of Central New York. Each district is a part of Rotary International, based in Evanston, IL. Worldwide, there are 1,219,532 Rotarians in 31,936 Rotary Clubs spanning 166 countries.

Every Rotarian is welcomed as an honored guest at any Rotary Club meeting.

THE OBJECT OF ROTARY

In the beginning, Rotary was founded in Chicago in 1905 by a group of businessmen led by Paul P. Harris. The first meetings were held at the offices of its fonding members in rotation--thus the name Rotary. Rotary has grown and so has its ability to tackle worldwide, as well as local, needs. The Rotary Foundation evolved to carry out the expending global projects and international programs of Rotary. The Foundation's success is derived from the commitment of many Rotarian volunteers "in the field" and contributions by clubs, individual members, and non-Rotarians supportive of Rotary's endeavors for world health, peace, and understanding.

YOUR OBLIGATIONS IN ROTARY

Participation

To be a Rotarian, you must give of your time and talents . . . in community work . . .and in club activities.

Dues

The mere cost of about $50 semi-annually covers local, district, and international membership, plus Club activity insurance AND your subscription to the international Rotarian magazine! Meals are presently $8 each week.

Attendance

Good food, great fellowship, and interesting meetings will do their part to encourage you to attend all meetings--do YOUR part by coming! One hundred percent attendance is encouraged and honored in Rotary, though NOT a requirement. This goal can be achieved by attendance at our own meeting or a Club project or by "making up" at another Rotary Club or District event within 14 days before or after the meeting missed.

Declaration

As a Rotarian engaged in a business or professtion, I am expected to : (1) consider my vocation to be another opportunity to serve; (2) be faithful to the letter and to the spirit of the ethical codes of my vocation, to the laws of my country, and to the moral standards of my community; (3) do all in my power to dignify my vocation and to promote the highest ethical standards in my chosen vocation; (4) be fair to my emploer, employees, associates, competitors, customers, the public, and all those with whom I have a business or professional relationship; (5) recognize the honor and respect due to all occupations which are useful in society; (6) offer my vocational talents to provide opportunities for young people, to work fo rhte relief of the special needs of others, and to improve the quality of life in my community; (7) adhere to honesty in my advertising and in all representation to the public concerning my business or profession; (8) neither seek from nor grant to a fellow Rotarian a privilege or advantage not normally accorded others in a business or professional relationship.

Enjoy the privileges of Rotary membership!

Online meetings too!

For those with busy schedules making it hard to attend regularly, try this new Rotary invention--Meet with otherws worldwide, 24-7! For information, visit http://www.rotary.org or to do a make-up online at your own computer, go to www.rotaryclubone.org.

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 buisness and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAMPHLET IS

1. To give you--as a proposed or newly installed member--a bird's eye view of Rotary.

2. To let you know what you may expect of your membership.

3. To let you know what our club will expect of you as a member.

4. To answer some of the questions that you might have about Rotary in general . . . and our club in particular.

THE FOUR WAY TEST OF THINGS WE THINK, SAY, AND DO . . .

Is it Truth?

Is it Fair to all concerned?

Will it build Good Will and better friendships?

Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?