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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
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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
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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.
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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
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