THIS IS ROTARY

Rotary is an opportunity to build lifelong friendships and experience the personal fulfillment of providing volunteer service to others.

An organization of business and professional leaders, Rotary provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and builds goodwill and peace in the world.

The world’s first service club, Rotary began with the formation of the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA, on February 23, 1905. The club was started by a young lawyer, Paul P. Harris, and three of his friends. He wished to recapture the friendly spirit he had felt among business people in the small town where he had grown up. Their weekly meetings “rotated” among their offices, providing the new service club with its name.

Today, Rotary flourishes with some 32,000 clubs and 1.2 million men and women as club members, providing community service in virtually every nation in the world.

HOW TO PROPOSE A NEW MEMBER

Every Rotarian has the privilege and obligation of seeking qualified members. In this way all Club members can help their clubs achieve a full representation of the business and professional life of the community. The basic procedure by which an individual is proposed for and elected to membership in a Rotary Club is:

The prospective member’s name is submitted to the Board of Directors

The Board ensures that the proposal meets all of the classification and membership requirements and approves or disapproves of the proposal, within 30 days. The proposer is notified through the Club Secretary. (Note: Until this approval is granted, prospects should not be informed that they have been proposed for membership.)

The prospective member is informed of privileges and responsibilities of Rotary Club membership, asked to complete the application card, and to give written permission to publish her or her name and proposed classification to the Club membership.

Prospect’s name is communicated to the Club. If no objections are received by the Board within seven (7) days following the publication of the prospect’s name, that person, upon payment of an admission fee. is considered to be elected to membership and his or her name is reported to Rotary International.

Additional active membership is an effective way of sharing the benefits of Rotary membership with outstanding, service-minded business and professional leaders in your community. It can bring to your Club new members with fresh enthusiasm, contribute extra support to your Club’s program of service, strengthen Club leadership, and help lower the average age of Club members.

Any active member of this Club may propose for, and the Club may elect to, active membership one additional person who is actively engaged in the same classification of business or profession as that of the proposer. This individual must have the qualifications required for active membership.

Another provision permits a Club to elect to active membership any former active member of a Rotary Club who has established a business, practice, or residence in the community, even though that person’s classification may already be represented. Here, approval of the present holder of the classification is needed.

Also permitted, with the approval of the present holder of the classification, is the election to additional active membership of former Rotaractors who have passed the age limit for Rotaract membership, provided that they live or conduct business within the territorial limits of the Rotary Club, and were members of one or more Rotaract Clubs for a minimum of four (4) years.

In addition, your Club’s membership efforts should benefit greatly from an important change in policy effected by the 1995 Council on Legislation. Retired persons in your community are now eligible for past service membership in your Club, even if they have never previously been Rotarians. provided that they would have been eligible for membership prior to retirement.

[Broomall Rotary Home] [Club  Officers] [Club  Projects] [Calendar] [To Join] [Rotary  Principles] [Grants] [Members] [Contact Us] [Objectives] [Scholarships] [Interact]

Please send corrections, updates, photos, etc to webmaster Russ Kehler at fun@kehlersgym.com