Mission Valley Rotary
Mission Valley
Rotary is an 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
community.
On 23 February 1905, Paul Harris, Silvester
Schiele, Gustavus Loehr and Hiram Shorey met in
Room 711 of the Unity Building and thus started
what has become Rotary International. For more
information why not visit the web site of the
Rotary Global History Fellowship
The name
“Rotary” originated from the practice of
holding meetings in rotation
at different members’ places of business.
The 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:
High ethical
standards in business and professions;
The development
of acquaintances to further the effectiveness of our
service;
The recognition
of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the
dignifying of
each
Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve
society;
The application
of the ideal of service
in each
Rotarian's personal,
business, and
community life;
The advancement
of international
understanding,
goodwill, and peace through
a world
fellowship of business and professional persons
united in the ideal of service.
Rotary's first convention away from
the continent of its birth in 1921 was in
Edinburgh, the birthplace of Paul's wife Jean
Thomson Harris, yet Paul's health would not allow
the trip. His impassioned
speech, was read, as usual, by long time
general secretary Ches Perry:
"First
time across the sea... Yesterday, Rotary was a
child..." "God grant that
Rotary be clean and free from the corrupting
influences of politics." "The
power of Rotary is friendship... Friendship means
peace."
Why watch television when you
could be bettering yourself by bettering the lives
of others!
Visit www.rotary.org
for all your Rotary needs.
Mission Valley
Rotary, Past-President,
Curt Fuller, 2002-2003
If
you have any questions, contact Mark
Scott Bagula |
"Welcome to one of the
wonderful Rotary clubs of sunny San Diego!"
Rotary is an
organization of business and professional leaders
united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service,
encourage high ethical standards in all vocations,
and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
There are
approximately 1.2 million Rotarians in over 29,000
clubs located in over 160 countries...
virtually every
free country in the world.
"Has
Rotary a meaning for you? No? Possibly you haven't
the right perspective. You have worried yourself
so much over the little unimportant things that
you haven't even given yourself a momentary
glimpse of the tout ensemble. Stand back, a few
paces, for a moment, far enough away from the
picture so that the details may assume their
proper proportions and disclose their true
relationship toward each other. It will profit you
to get the distance sense."
Paul
P. Harris
For 42 years that Paul Harris
served the world through his creation Rotary.
For a history of his life, click here. |
