HISTORY OF ROTARY

1.Organized in Chicago in 1905 by Paul P. Harris, with Augustus Schiele, first President.
2.The first group met in rotation, in the charter members offices, thus the name ROTARY.
3.As the group enlarged, the members met in restaurants to discuss their businesses and community concerns.
4. By 1910-16 clubs - 1500 members.
5.The slogan---"HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES THE BEST" and "SERVICE ABOVE SELF --- adopted in 1911.
6.Today, ROTARY is an international organization, with the world divided into territories within which a group of ROTARY clubs are associated; these territories are known as ROTARY districts.
7.Currently there are over 29,000 Rotary clubs, with a membership of 1.2 million in 154 countries and geographical regions. The clubs are divided among 527 Rotary districts.
8.Rotary International, headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, is governed by a Board of Directors which includes the President of Rotary International, the immediate Past President and seventeen (17) other Directors.

Fountain Hills Rotary

Fountain Hills Rotary club was chartered on April 6, 1979 with the assistance and encouragement of Ben Benson and Hartley Barker of the Paradise Valley and Scottsdale Rotary Clubs, Bill Johns of Valley Bank was the first club president.

Object Of Rotary

To encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and 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 this worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his occupation as an opportunity to serve society.

THIRD: The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his personal, business, and community life.

FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, good will, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional men, united in the ideal of service.

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