MID-ISLAND ROTARY
Rotary is an international service organization whose stated purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world. It is a secular organization open to all people regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, or political preference. Through Rotary Clubs, people from all continents and cultures come together to exchange ideas, and form friendships and professional connections while making a difference in their backyards and around the world.
Grassroots at the core, Rotary links 1.2 million members to form an organization of international scope. It started with the vision of one man — Paul Harris. The Chicago attorney formed the Rotary Club of Chicago on February 23, 1905, so professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas, form meaningful, lifelong friendships, and give back to their communities.
Rotary’s name came from the group’s early practice of rotating meetings among the offices of its members, although within a year, the Chicago club became so large it was necessary to adopt the now common practice of a regular meeting place. Today there are over 35,000 member clubs worldwide.
The Rotary Foundation is changing the world by providing grants for projects around the globe and in our local communities. One such international project is the Rotary PolioPlus program which was launched in 1985 to immunize all of the world's children against polio. As a result, nearly two billion children worldwide have been immunized and there has been a 99.9% reduction in polio cases.
Rotarians usually gather weekly for breakfast, lunch, or dinner to fulfill their first guiding principle to develop friendships as an opportunity for service. The Rotarian's primary motto is "service above self"; its secondary motto is "one profits most who serves best."
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:
- The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service
- High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
- The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
- The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
This objective is set against the "Rotary 4-Way Test," used to see if a planned action is compatible with the Rotarian spirit. The test was developed by Rotarian and entrepreneur Herbert J. Taylor during the Great Depression as a set of guidelines for restoring faltering businesses and was adopted as the standard of ethics by Rotary in 1942. It is still seen as a standard for ethics in business management. The 4-Way Test considers the following questions with regard to what they think, say or do:
- 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 Mid-Island Rotary Club received its Rotary International Charter on July 23, 1990, becoming the fourth Rotary Club on Staten Island. There are currently five Rotary Clubs on Staten Island, meeting on different days of the week for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Mid-Island Rotary Club is the only club that meets for breakfast and presently meets on Thursday mornings at 8 a.m. at the New Dakota Diner on Forest Avenue, but during the current COVID-19 pandemic the club has been meeting Thursday mornings on ZOOM to uphold social distancing.
To date, Mid-Island Rotary has donated close to $1 million through annual grants to charities and annual college scholarships. The five Rotary clubs of Staten Island work together and raised $500,000 for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Every Thanksgiving, Rotarians on Staten Island distribute a full turkey dinner and all the trimmings to over 1,000 needy families and host an Oktoberfest event to benefit veterans in need.
Rotary is always looking for new members. If you are interested in joining Rotary, please contact Marguerite A. Fiore at (718) 351-3000.
MID-ISLAND ROTARY
Rotary is an international service organization whose stated purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world. It is a secular organization open to all people regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, or political preference. Through Rotary Clubs, people from all continents and cultures come together to exchange ideas, and form friendships and professional connections while making a difference in their backyards and around the world.
Grassroots at the core, Rotary links 1.2 million members to form an organization of international scope. It started with the vision of one man — Paul Harris. The Chicago attorney formed the Rotary Club of Chicago on February 23, 1905, so professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas, form meaningful, lifelong friendships, and give back to their communities.
Rotary’s name came from the group’s early practice of rotating meetings among the offices of its members, although within a year, the Chicago club became so large it was necessary to adopt the now common practice of a regular meeting place. Today there are over 35,000 member clubs worldwide.
The Rotary Foundation is changing the world by providing grants for projects around the globe and in our local communities. One such international project is the Rotary PolioPlus program which was launched in 1985 to immunize all of the world's children against polio. As a result, nearly two billion children worldwide have been immunized and there has been a 99.9% reduction in polio cases.
Rotarians usually gather weekly for breakfast, lunch, or dinner to fulfill their first guiding principle to develop friendships as an opportunity for service. The Rotarian's primary motto is "service above self"; its secondary motto is "one profits most who serves best."
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:
- The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service
- High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
- The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
- The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
This objective is set against the "Rotary 4-Way Test," used to see if a planned action is compatible with the Rotarian spirit. The test was developed by Rotarian and entrepreneur Herbert J. Taylor during the Great Depression as a set of guidelines for restoring faltering businesses and was adopted as the standard of ethics by Rotary in 1942. It is still seen as a standard for ethics in business management. The 4-Way Test considers the following questions with regard to what they think, say or do:
- 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 Mid-Island Rotary Club received its Rotary International Charter on July 23, 1990, becoming the fourth Rotary Club on Staten Island. There are currently five Rotary Clubs on Staten Island, meeting on different days of the week for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Mid-Island Rotary Club is the only club that meets for breakfast and presently meets on Thursday mornings at 8 a.m. at the New Dakota Diner on Forest Avenue, but during the current COVID-19 pandemic the club has been meeting Thursday mornings on ZOOM to uphold social distancing.
To date, Mid-Island Rotary has donated close to $1 million through annual grants to charities and annual college scholarships. The five Rotary clubs of Staten Island work together and raised $500,000 for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Every Thanksgiving, Rotarians on Staten Island distribute a full turkey dinner and all the trimmings to over 1,000 needy families and host an Oktoberfest event to benefit veterans in need.
Rotary is always looking for new members. If you are interested in joining Rotary, please contact Marguerite A. Fiore at (718) 351-3000.