WHAT IS ROTARY?

 

     Officially Rotary is defined as an organization of business and professional men and women united worldwide, which provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.

     Specifically, a Rotary club is composed of business and professional people in a community who have accepted the ideal of service as a basis for attaining fulfillment in their personal, vocational and community lives.  In fact, the ideal of service exemplified in the motto Service Above Self is the thread that runs throughout the Rotary World and unites like-minded people in thought and action, no matter in what part of the world they live.

 

 

WHAT IS A ROTARIAN?

 

     Besides working in the club, a Rotarian is encouraged to serve as an individual wherever there is an opportunity.  For example because each Rotarian is a business or professional person (or retired), business becomes more than merely the basis of livelihood; it becomes a way of serving competently and unselfishly.

     Moreover, a Rotarian strives to make use of opportunities for service in business or in the community.  Since business is interdependent, opportunities exist in cooperation with other Rotarians to improve business conditions through the advancement of understanding, goodwill and high ethical standards. 

WHO IS ROTARY OF DUARTE?

     We are a group of business people from all walks of life who have a deep sense of community and love for Duarte.  In our ranks are city officials, leaders from our school district, successful business owners, and corporate executives.

Together we have a desire and drive to server the Duarte community and the world at large.

 

A SHINING MOMENT

     Possibly our club’s most significant accomplishment of worldwide scale has been our active role in causing women to be welcomed into Rotary International.  In 1976, recognizing the fact that women were increasingly holding key leadership positions in the community, the Duarte Club admitted two women into its ranks.  When the women’s membership was discovered, Rotary International gave the Duarte Rotary Club an ultimatum: Remove the women from the club or loose its charter... During the next nine years, we, as the EX-ROTARY CLUB OF DUARTE, continued to meet and serve our community.  After numerous lower court trials, the United States Supreme Court in 1987 ruled that Rotary International must allow women to join, and shortly thereafter we were again chartered as the Rotary Club of Duarte

     All Rotary clubs in the United States now welcome and actively recruit women into their membership ranks.  In fact, most local clubs have either already had a female club president or will in the near future.  Rotary membership changes the way people think about themselves, their business and their community — and the Duarte Rotary Club is proud to have changed the way Rotary thinks about itself and its membership!

Join us Wednesdays, 7:30 AM at Denny’s  in Duarte!