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“The camaraderie.
Like other civic clubs, Rotary gives you the opportunity to make new friends and then see them on a regular basis.
I look forward to that fellowship at our Friday meetings.”
—Foster Senn, City council memberbusinessman
your favorite part of
the Rotary Club?” (see photo captions)
The Rotary test
He learned it at the Rotary Club meeting and now uses it in his own life both professionally and personally, says Newberry Rotary Club President John Boozer, a 15-year Rotary member.
It's the four-way test, Rotary Club's way to take the ethical high road.
“I've just kind of absorbed it into my basic ethics,” says Boozer.
How should we live? Shall we aim at happiness or knowledge? If we choose happiness, will it be our own or the happiness of all? Is it right to be dishonest for a good cause? Can we justify living in opulence while elsewhere in the world people are starving? Is going to war OK when innocent people will be killed?
Ethics deals with such questions at all levels and the test is a simple checklist for ethical behavior.
Rotarians ask:
• Is it the TRUTH?
• Is it FAIR to all concerned?
• Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
• Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
The test is one of the hallmarks of Rotary. Since it was developed in 1932 by Herbert J. Taylor, who later became RI president, it has never ceased to be relevant.
Its four brief questions are not based on culture or religion. Instead, they are a simple checklist for ethical behavior. They transcend generations and national borders.
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