Welcome
“So what is Rotary, anyway?”
That’s the question I hear most from people who’ve seen our logo, well, somewhere.
We’re a local civic organization doing the things you’d expect: funding scholarships, planting shrubs to enhance our public areas, supporting youth organizations like scouting.
But we’re not just local.
The Rotarian who plants a shrub in Roselle also helps build sustainable systems to deliver clean drinking water in India and polio medicine in Yemen. And Rotarians don’t do this by just writing a check; thousands of us travel to the poorest corners of the earth and make a difference with our own two hands. You see, the local Rotarian is part of a world network of like-minded people whose achievements stem from a basic, four-part code of behavior. Of everything we say or do, we ask:
- Is it the truth?
- Is it fair to all concerned?
- Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
- Is it beneficial to all concerned?
The 20th century saw the spread of freedom across the globe, with dictatorships large and small collapsing in favor of democracy, open markets, and civil rights. But as the political barriers to human dignity continue to fall, too many of the world’s people still have no sustainable way to provide themselves with food, shelter, medicine, clean water and other commodities. Rotarians work to change this, in a permanent, sustainable way.
If you’re reading this page now, I invite you to join with us at a weekly breakfast meeting on Thursday morning, at the Amalfe Center in Roselle. Rotarians carry their four-way test within themselves when they go out the door every morning; we invite you to join us in radiating that standard around the world.
Yours In Rotary,
Robert Scott Wands, President
2011-2012
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