The Meredith Rotary Club sponsors the Interact Club of Inter-lakes High School. An Interact Club is a Rotary Club-sponsored organization of young people, ages 12 to 18, whose purpose is to provide opportunities to work together in a world fellowship dedicated to service and international understanding and leadership development skills. The Interact Club of Inter-lakes High School was established in February 2015 with 27 members from grades 9 through 12. Club meetings are held twice a month at Inter-lakes High School, where the members discuss and plan their service activities, such as sponsoring an annual school clubs fair, battle of the grades canned food drive, funding wheelchairs for those who cannot afford to buy one, Cancer Walk-A-Thon, "Soxtober" battle of the grades (collecting socks for charity), visits a local Veterans Homes, maintaining the Center Harbor Congregational Church's garden, and supporting The Meredith Rotary Club's Great Ice Fishing Derby in February. In 2017, a bob house was donated for the Interact Club to raffle during the Ice Fishing Derby. The students sold 1,000 raffle tickets, custom coffee mugs, and maple syrup from a local farm.
The Four-Way Test was conceived in 1932 by Herbert J. Taylor, a Rotary Club of Chicago member and a businessman who served as Rotary International President in 1954-1955. Having taken on the task of saving a company from bankruptcy, Taylor developed the test as an ethical guide for all business matters. The company's survival was credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary International in 1934, The Four-Way test remains an essential standard against which Rotarians measure ethical behavior. It has been translated into dozens of languages and promoted by Rotarians worldwide.
The Four-Way Test is part of the Rotary framework that helps to guide Rotarians in their professional and personal lives.
What is the Four-Way Test? Of the things we think, say or do:
1. Is the 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?
Each year, the Four-Way Test Committee meets with local school guidance counselors, public speaking teachers, etc., to recruit student candidates to participate in the Test. The test aims to address an ethical problem using the four points. The topic has no restrictions, but students are encouraged to share life experiences. The candidates prepare a five-minute speech that is presented at a regular Wednesday Rotary meeting, where they are judged by members of the club using rules and regulations outlined by Rotary International. Cash prizes are awarded to the winners. The first-place winner will then be entered into the Regional contest, and winners of the Regional contests compete at the District level, with final presentations made at the annual District Conference.
The Four-Way Test is part of the Rotary framework that helps to guide Rotarians in their professional and personal lives.
What is the Four-Way Test? Of the things we think, say or do:
1. Is the 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?
Each year, the Four-Way Test Committee meets with local school guidance counselors, public speaking teachers, etc., to recruit student candidates to participate in the Test. The test aims to address an ethical problem using the four points. The topic has no restrictions, but students are encouraged to share life experiences. The candidates prepare a five-minute speech that is presented at a regular Wednesday Rotary meeting, where they are judged by members of the club using rules and regulations outlined by Rotary International. Cash prizes are awarded to the winners. The first-place winner will then be entered into the Regional contest, and winners of the Regional contests compete at the District level, with final presentations made at the annual District Conference.
To speak to someone about any aspect of the program, please call or e-mail:
Dean Gulezian
Meredith Rotary Youth Exchange Officer
dean.gulezian@mail.com
H: 603-677-7172
C: 631-235-8654
Dean Gulezian
Meredith Rotary Youth Exchange Officer
dean.gulezian@mail.com
H: 603-677-7172
C: 631-235-8654
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