Membership Benefits and Obligations

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 acquaintances as an opportunity for service.
• High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his/her occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
• The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to personal, business and community life.
• The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional people united in the ideal of service.

The BENEFITS of Rotary membership include:

• Making the acquaintance of leaders you ought to know.
• Genuine, wholesome, good fellowship.
• Developing true and helpful friends.
• Enlightenment as to others' work, problems and successes.
• Education in methods that increase efficiency.
• Business returns that come from enlarging your acquaintance base and inspiring confidence in yourself and your business.

The OBLIGATIONS of Rotary include:

• Regular attendance
• Prompt payment of dues
• To do my part when called upon
• To be big hearted, to be a broad-minded individual full of energy and action, a real citizen, an asset to the community--a Rotarian.