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Rotary Club O X J ____ - ./* > 8R00RINGS OREGON V V X ROTARY CELEBRATES 50th YEAR Rotary - It's Origin and Growth T h e 4 -W a y Test l. Is it the TRUTH? G ivat events often have insig nificant beginnings. So it w as w ith R otary. Th.' service club itiea w as pioneered on th e night of F e b ru a ry 23. 1905, w hen four m< n mvt in a Chicago business office. One w as a law yer, one w as a m erch an t ta ilo r, one w as a m ining engineer, one w as a coal dealer. F o r several y ears th e law yvr. Paul P. H arris, had been S h o rtly a lte r the organization of th e first R o tary Club, it was realized th a t R otary could serv • a w ider purpose th a n its o rig inal aim of prom oting u n d e r stan d in g and fellow ship am ong its m em bers. R otary soon becam e a fa c to r for th e prom otion of m any d ifferen t tyix’s of c o m m u n ity -b et- ferm en t activities, tor c o n stru c tive w ork w ith crippled children thinking about organizing a club and underprivileged children, and w hich would h? based on th e idea lor th e prom otion of high stan d - th a t men in business and th e p ro ' a id s in business ami professional fessions could be pers<>nal friei Is practioes. T h a t night these to u r Chicagoans As the R otary ideas of frie n d agreed to launch this unique o r s h i p and service to o th e rs spread ganization. which w as d estined to 'fro m country to country, R o ta ry ’s become one of th e m ost p o ten t ness and professional m en becam e w orld-w ide m ovem ents of m odern a pow erful force tor th e ad v aiu v - tim es. nu nt of in te rn a tio n a l u n d e ista n d - • ¡ng, good w ill ar.d jx'ace. O th e r men w ere (puck to re- Thus week, ju st 50 y ears a f te r ognize th e w orth of th e new organizatio n and it gn-w rapidly. the founding ot the first Rotary- T he nam e "R o ta ry ’’ w as selected Club by fo u r young men in C h i because orginally th e m em b eis cago, then? a re 8.400 R otary C lubs met in ro ta tio n in th e ir various jdaces ot business Soon Rotary located in S9 countries of the C lubs w ere organized in o th e r , free w orld. F ro m the original cities th roughout th e U nited lo u r members, th e organization S tates, and the idea spread to has grow n to 400,000 R otarians. t anada, E urope. S outh A m erica. differing widely in language, c u s i Africa and Australia. By !'22, R o tary bad encircled the tom s and economic, political and w orld w ith R otary C lubs on th e religious co tx e p ts but united in six con tin en ts banded to g e th e r th e ir devotion to the R o tary ideal as R otary In te rn a tio n a l. of service to m ankind. 2. Is it EAIR to all concerned? !• Will it build C O O l) WILL and BETTER 4. \\ ill it he BENEFICIAL to all concerned? T hese 25 w ords w ere written j in 1932, du rin g the depths of the depression, by H e rb e rt J. Tay lor of Chicago, who is President .u R o tary In te rn a tio n a l du rin g its Golden A n n iversary year. As signed by cred ito rs to save a com pany from bainkruj»1 cy. h > found that debts w ere $400,000 m ore than its assets. H is com pany m ade a good product bn. so did its com petitors and they had th e added ad v a n ta g e ot being in a si rong financial conit ion. Membership Rester Frcnchy Arrell Archie Hendricks Joe Murphy Earl Breuer Jack Holmes Merwyn Palmer Roy Brimni Newt Jones Bob Phillips Tony Christensen Albert Joy Bud Pisarek Ed Dempsey 1 Ienry Kerr Karl Ostenberg Homer Kessler Willis Ragland Bob Dimmick -Arthur Knox Boh Rettke Fred Fox Pete Lcsmeister (denn Rogers George Funk Leo Eneas Dr. Paul Ronniger Gordon Goetz Clive Manley Dr. R. S. Smith Virgil Goldsberry Val Mendenhall Warren T. Smith Chas. Grayshcl Ralph Menning John Shideler Homer Haggerty Fred Moore Newman Strommen Sam Hall Estes Morton lid Sund Lvnn Hampton Dr. T. I. McKenna Roy Weidemann ÎJ f / .es Dimmick ’ T X "1 * ** ’ 1 -, World Wide Pi ogram 1RII \ I ) S | Ill’S? Paul P. Harris B rookings w as linkssl today w ith mono than 8,100 o th e r oitiea .Uhl tow ns m S9 c o u n trie s of th e w orld as the Rotary C lub of P> r o o k i n g s com m em orated the 50th anniversary ol the founding j <>l Rotary The birthday of th is w orld-w ide fellow ship ot business and proiessional executives w as celebrated by the hx’al R o tary < lub at its m eeting in the Cliff 1 louse. Faced w ith trem endous handi c a p , Mr. T a y lo r decided th a t in j o rd e r to succeed he m ust de- A (‘l°p in his org an izatio n som e th in g w hich his eornjM titor.s might not have in like am ount. T hat Was the c h a ra c te r, dependability and serv ice—m indedness of his personnel As a y a rd stic k by which everyone in th e company could m easu re th e ir re la tio n s w ith Others, he develojx>d th e four questions know n around the w orld today as th e "F o u r-W ay T e st.’ In com m enting on th«1 p rogram of R otary, Les Dim m ick, I’re si dent of th«' R otary Club o f B rook ings. said: R otary activ ities th ro u g h o u t t i e free w orld are based on th * sam e general objectives as those of our own club the develop m ent of fellow ship am ong busi ness and p ro h ’ssional men, th e betterm en t of com m unities, lead ing boys and girls into good c iti zenship, the prom otion o f high sta n d a rd s in businesses and p ro fessions, and th«' a d v an cem en t ol in te rn a tio n a l und erstan d in g , good will and peace. "T he one basic objective of R otary," he continued. "is its M e a l of S erv ice’ w hich is to be thoughtful of and helpful to o th ers. To a tta in this objective, Ro tary eks all that w hich brings people to g e th e r and avoids all which separat«'s them . T h a t is the reason w hy R o ta ry has be come a w orld-w ide in stitu tio n , whose ideals have Ix'en accepted by men who differ w idely in language, custom s, and historical b a c k g ro u n d s" ( 'ontiniioiis ( ìro w tli In tracin g the grow th o f Ro tary , P resid en t D im m ick said: Ih«> first R o ta ry ('lu b was o r ganized in ( hieago on F e b ru a ry 23. 1905, by Paul P H arris, i young law yer, who suggest, d the idea to a group ot his friends. I nam e ’R o ta ry ’ w as selected because the first me« tin g ts of th e Its adoption in cheeking plan... < lub w ere held in rotation, in policies and advertising, m arked the offices of its m em bers. T he th e tu rn in g p a n t in the com Rotary ideas of fellow ship an d p a n y ’s history The d ebt-ridden service to o th e rs soon sp read com pany becam e a successful en from city to city in the U nited terp rise, w orth m ore th a n two S ta te s and C anada and then m illion dollars. In tan g ib le divid cross« d the oceans to every con- ends from the use of H r« " j y j-. UtMld. W ay T est" w ere even g re a t.-r Ira n h i t X I I n e.’n h t n , R a te r-/ h a s th e financial ones. H appier re la grown in rtu m b c's and stre n g th . tions, based on m u tu al tru st and In th e last tw elve months, for confidence, resulted betw een th« exam ple, m ore than 450 new Ro com pany and its custom ers, sup ta ry C lubs have been organized pliers and comp« titors. in 58 countries of E urope, A frica, Asia, th«* A m e r i c a s and th e T he sto ry of th e ’F o u r-W ay T est" Islands of th e Pacific. Today, does not end w ith its success in Rotary is a w orld-w ide o rg a n iz a on«’ com pany. O th e r com panies tion of som e 400,000 business an dindividuals found th a t it could and professional executives who be m ade to w ork successfully for are m em bers of m ore th a n 8,4fX) thorn, and R o ta ry In te rn a tio n a l R otary Clubs in 89 countries and brought it to th e a tte n tio n of geographical regions th ro u g h o u t R o tary Clubs around the w orld as the w orld." a m eans of fu rth e rin g th e voca tional service phase of t i e R otary Pioneer Service Club V\ e are observing not only program . T ra n sla te d into a dozen languages, th e "F our-W ay T est" »hv golden anniversary of tho is now being used not only in founding of Rotary, hut of tlx? offices and factories, hut in entire service club m o v em en t” schools and in leg islatu res, as an a-s. rted P r e s i d e n t Dimmick, since R otary was the pionec? etTect > -> m easu rin g device fo a J c ’ c (C n « d on P age 1 *
