100 years ago today, attorney Paul Harris gathered 3 friends and planted the seeds of the world's oldest and most prestigious service club organization. The meetings they held rotated from business to business place, and the name Rotary was born.

Today Rotary is a worldwide 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 world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 31,000 clubs in 166 countries.

In Whitecourt more than 33 professional men and women are proud to call themselves Rotarians. Since 1998 the Whitecourt Club has contributed to making Whitecourt an even better place to live.

Feb. 23 Rotary marks 100 years. Join us as we celebrate a century of SERVICE ABOVE SELF.

THE FOUR-WAY TEST

From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is THE FOUR-WAY TEST. It was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert I. Taylor when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.

This 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers. The survival of that company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The Four-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following questions:

Of the things we think, say or do
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

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:

FIRST, The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.

SECOND, High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations as an opportunity to serve society.

THIRD, The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarians personal, business, and community life.

FOUTH, The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

ROTARY CLUB OF WHITECOURT ACHIEVEMENTS

AT HOME

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Blood Donor Clinic
Business Integrity Award
Canadian Energy Field Conference
Arnie Stephenson's Koats for Kids
Public Skating at Whitecourt Arena
Rotary Float in Xmas Parade
Rotary Float in Rodeo Parade
Fund Raising for and Assistance to Heart Transplant Patient
Organ Tissue Donation Awareness

ROTARY PARK

Lights Illuminating the Pond
Host Annual Family Day Skate at Rotary Park
Host Annual New Years Day Skate at Rotary Park
Host Annual Kids Fishing Day at Rotary Park
Rotary Park Tree Planting
Rotary Park Clean-up
Providing & Installing Outdoor Toilets at Rotary Park

YOUTH PROGRAMS

Rotary Youth Leadership Award
Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment
Adventures in Technology
2004 Storm Conference
Annual Dave Danks Scholarships
International Exchange Students (Denmark, Australia, Japan)
Northern Student Experience
President's Student Conference (Washington)

ABROAD

Polio Plus -worldwideLeprosy -Dominican Republic
Orthopedic Surgery -Ecuador
Books to Africa
District Wheelchair Program -560 chairs to Zambia
Group Study Exchange -Russia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi
Theresa Willis Home of Hope (HIV Orphans in South Africa )
Raised Over $48,000. for Tsunami Relief

WE WORK

Annual Lobster Charity Dinner
Bartending
Raffles
Casino

WE PLAY

Back Yard Golf
Curling