1. The Rotary Club of Reston presents “This is Rotary”
Rotary International
The Rotary Club of Reston presents
“This is Rotary”

2. About Rotary
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.

3. Who Joins Rotary?
Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races and creeds.

4. Rotary History
Rotary Founder Paul Harris
The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA, was formed on 23 February 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wished to recapture in a professional club the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth. The name "Rotary" derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among members' offices.

5. Four Avenues of Service
Club Service focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club.
Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to serve others through their vocations and to practice high ethical standards.
Community Service covers the projects and activities the club undertakes to improve life in its community.
International Service encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary's humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world understanding and peace.

6. Rotary Foundation Polio Plus . . .
Polio is a highly infectious disease that primarily affects children under the age of three and can cause paralysis within hours.
Before eradication efforts began in 1988, polio paralyzed more than 1,000 children a day, which totaled about 350,000 children annually. The incidence of polio has since declined by more than 99 percent.
Vaccinations easily can stave off polio. Vaccinations have prevented an estimated 500,000 children per year from contracting polio. A child can be protected against polio for as little as 60 cents (US) worth of vaccine.
Only four countries are still polio endemic — an all-time low: Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

7. Rotary Foundation Educational Programs . . .
Ambassadorial Scholarships
Group Study Exchange
Rotary World Peace Scholarships
Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Rotary Grants for University Teachers

8. Object of Rotary
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:
FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
SECOND. 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;
THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

9. Four Way Test Is it the TRUTH? Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"

10. Rotary Organization
Rotary is organized at club, district, zones, and international levels to carry out its program of service. Rotarians are members of their clubs, and the clubs are members of the global association known as Rotary International. Each club elects its own officers and enjoys considerable autonomy within the framework of the standard constitution and the constitution and bylaws of Rotary International.

11. Rotary’s Vision
Rotary will be recognized for its leadership and success in the eradication of polio.
Rotary will have a strong and visible presence worldwide.
Rotary will achieve enhanced capacity for friendship and service through a strong organization with increased and diverse membership.
Rotary will advance its ideals of high ethical standards, international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a membership united in service.

12. Our Club
The Rotary Club of Reston is a service club of professional men and women serving the community in and around Reston, Va. The Club was chartered on November 20, 1970, and has been making an impact in the area for more than 35 years. Members are business professionals, executives, and owners who live or work in Reston and surrounding locales.

13. What we Expect Regular Attendance Club Participation
Adherence to the Principles of Rotary

14. Service Opportunities
There are many ways to get involved . . .
Join a committee
Attend a Board Meeting
Get to know fellow Rotarians
Identify a need in the community
Propose a new member
Become a Paul Harris Fellow

15. Now, it’s your turn . . .
Do you have any questions/comments?

16. Fireside Chat
Thanks for your attendance and participation in this “Fireside Chat.”
I hope that you enjoy being a Rotarian.
Have fun!