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Meetings
Colorado's
Region 5450
Rotary
International
Carbon Valley Rotary
P. O. Box
828
Frederick, Colorado
80530-0828
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About
Rotary
Rotary 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 32,000 Rotary clubs located in over 200 countries.
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.
The Four-Way Test
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
Four-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.
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 Four-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
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?
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