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 31,000
Rotary clubs located in 166 countries.The Glennville Rotary Club
meets every Wednesday
12:00 noon at the Glennville Garden Club
for lunch
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 4-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
4-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 4-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:
- Is it the TRUTH?
- Is it FAIR to all concerned?
- Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
- Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"
