Rotary Club of St. Cloud
About Rotary
 ABOUT 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 united worldwide, Rotary provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and builds goodwill and peace in the world. The Rotary Club of St. Cloud was founded in 1925, and was among the first 10% of Rotary Clubs worldwide. OBJECT OF ROTARY 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; A BRIEF HISTORY
The world's first service club, Rotary began with the formation of the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, 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 27,000 clubs and 1.2 million men and women as club members, providing community service in virtually every nation of the world. The Rotary Club of St. Cloud was established on April 27, 1925 by 22 charter members from St. Cloud who labored for two years to establish the organization. The Rotary Club of St. Cloud was the 2007th club formed in the world-which today makes it among the oldest 5% of continuously operating clubs anywhere. |