Rotary – Networking with a Purpose

As summer draws to a close, area families are sliding back into town after vacations and gearing up with school and work schedules. It’s a busy time! The Rotary Club of Weston is bustling too, kicking off the new Rotary year on July 1 with a fun dinner-dance at Weston Hills Country Club to install new officers and board members, as well as the new Governor for Rotary International District 6990 (South Florida, The Keys, and Grand Bahama Island). The Weston Rotary Club, one of 48 in the district, is very active and known to many in our community as a service club that supports local civic and charitable activities. But what is Rotary, really, and why is it different from other service clubs?

Rotary was started in 1905 when four Chicago businessmen, each in a different profession, met for the purpose of fellowship and exchanging ideas. They took turns meeting at one another’s places of business, hence the name Rotary. Before long, they realized that adding the “service” component to their organization was the key to building good will and better friendships. Sixteen years later, there were Rotary clubs on six continents and Rotarians from all professions engaged in purposeful activity to make their communities and the world a better place.

Rotary membership operates on a premise that the membership of each club should reflect a cross section of the business and professional service of the community. Rotary membership is based on “classification” of the activity of a member’s principal business or professional firm or institution, such as banking, engineering, manufacturing, health care, etc. Each Rotarian is expected to use his or her unique professional talents and resources to further the Object of Rotary, which is “to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise.”

The Rotary Club of Weston is a diverse group of area professionals that gives hundreds of volunteer hours and raises approximately $100,000 annually to benefit student leadership training and scholarships, feed the hungry or homeless, provide clean water and vaccines, and improve the lives of people here at home and around the world with dozens of projects. If you’d like to add a rich new component to your life this fall, take a look at Rotary. The Weston club is fun, dynamic, welcoming and always happy to add new members interested in giving back and making new connections in the process.

Rotary – Networking with a PurposeAs summer draws to a close, area families are sliding back into town after vacations and gearing up with school and work schedules. It’s a busy time! The Rotary Club of Weston is bustling too, kicking off the new Rotary year on July 1 with a fun dinner-dance at Weston Hills Country Club to install new officers and board members, as well as the new Governor for Rotary International District 6990 (South Florida, The Keys, and Grand Bahama Island). The Weston Rotary Club, one of 48 in the district, is very active and known to many in our community as a service club that supports local civic and charitable activities. But what is Rotary, really, and why is it different from other service clubs?Rotary was started in 1905 when four Chicago businessmen, each in a different profession, met for the purpose of fellowship and exchanging ideas. They took turns meeting at one another’s places of business, hence the name Rotary. Before long, they realized that adding the “service” component to their organization was the key to building good will and better friendships. Sixteen years later, there were Rotary clubs on six continents and Rotarians from all professions engaged in purposeful activity to make their communities and the world a better place.Rotary membership operates on a premise that the membership of each club should reflect a cross section of the business and professional service of the community. Rotary membership is based on “classification” of the activity of a member’s principal business or professional firm or institution, such as banking, engineering, manufacturing, health care, etc. Each Rotarian is expected to use his or her unique professional talents and resources to further the Object of Rotary, which is “to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise.”The Rotary Club of Weston is a diverse group of area professionals that gives hundreds of volunteer hours and raises approximately $100,000 annually to benefit student leadership training and scholarships, feed the hungry or homeless, provide clean water and vaccines, and improve the lives of people here at home and around the world with dozens of projects. If you’d like to add a rich new component to your life this fall, take a look at Rotary. The Weston club is fun, dynamic, welcoming and always happy to add new members interested in giving back and making new connections in the process.