What Is Rotary
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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 31,000 Rotary
clubs located in 166 countries. |
Information for Prospective Members
Rotarians are business and professional leaders who take
an active role in their communities while greatly enriching
their personal and professional lives. A Rotary club
contains a diverse group of professional leaders from
the community that the club serves. |
Membership in a Rotary club offers a number of benefits,
including:
• Effecting change within the community.
• Developing leadership skills.
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Gaining an understanding of — and having an impact
on — international humanitarian issues.
• Developing relationships with community and business leaders.
Through Rotary's service programs, a Rotary club can have
a significant effect on the quality of life in its community.
Rotary Foundation programs offer opportunities to form
international partnerships that help people in need worldwide.
Some 1.2 million Rotarians in 30,000 clubs in more than
160 countries make significant contributions to the quality
of life at home and around the globe.
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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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Rotary Club of Greater Anderson
P.O. Box 688
Anderson, South Carolina 29622
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