An official welcome to Jennifer Williams who transferred from the Ottawa Club. We're looking forward to Jennifer's Meet the Member article soon.
We expect to have more members still before the end of the year. We're at 32 members right now.
Congratulations to One of our Own Members!
C’est agréable d’ouvrir sa revue Rotary Canada et de voir son nom et sa photo 😉
Always nice to open your Rotary Canada magazine and read your name/see your face 🙂
#20yearsinRotary #lovetowrite
Also congratulations to Rotarians who manned the Salvation Army kettles this past weekend! if you have any pictures, please send them so we can share with the rest of the club.
International Responsibilities of a Rotarian
As an international organization, Rotary offers each member unique opportunities and responsibilities. Although every Rotarians’ first responsibility is to uphold the obligations of citizenship of his or her own country, membership in Rotary enables Rotarians to take a broader view of international affairs. In the early 1950s, a Rotary philosophy was adopted to describe how a Rotarian may think globally.
Here is what it said: “A world-minded Rotarian:
• looks beyond national patriotism and considers himself* as sharing responsibility for the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace;
• resists any tendency to act in terms of national or racial superiority;
• seeks and develops common grounds for agreement with peoples of other lands;
• defends the rule of law and order to preserve the liberty of the individual so that he may enjoy freedom of thought, speech, and assembly, and freedom from persecution, aggression, want, and fear;
• supports action directed toward improving standards of living for all peoples, realizing that poverty anywhere endangers prosperity everywhere;
• upholds the principles of justice for mankind;
• strives always to promote peace between nations and prepares to make personal sacrifices for that ideal;
• urges and practices a spirit of understanding of others’ beliefs as a step toward international goodwill, recognizing that there are certain basic moral and spiritual standards which will ensure a richer, fuller life.”
That is quite an assignment for any Rotarian to practice in thoughts and actions!
* When this philosophy was developed, Rotary was still an all-male organization. The description of a world-minded Rotarian today would obviously include all female members as well.
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Paul Harris — First but not First
Was Paul Harris the first president of a Rotary club? No.
Was Paul Harris the first president of Rotary International? Yes.
There is an easy explanation to this apparent contradiction. Although Paul Harris was the founder and organizer of the first Rotary club in Chicago in 1905, the man selected to be the first club president was one of the other founding members, Silvester Schiele.
By 1910, there were 16 Rotary clubs, which formed an organization called the National Association of Rotary Clubs. Two years later, the name was changed to the International
Association of Rotary Clubs to reflect the addition of clubs in Canada, England, Ireland, and Scotland. In 1922, the name was shortened to Rotary International.
When the first organization of Rotary clubs was created in 1910, Paul Harris was selected as the first president. He served in this position for two years, from 1910 until 1912. Thus, the founder of the Rotary idea, who declined to be president of the first club, became the first president of the worldwide organization, Rotary International.
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