OVERVIEW:

Many Zionsville locals know Rotary as the group that rides the 10-person bicycle every year in the Fall Festival Parade. Others know Rotarians for their role in fighting to eradicate Polio. Some know us as just one of the many great civic organizations with a history within communities across the country. Each of these descriptions is a correct but only partial view of what Rotarians everywhere accomplish as citizens of thier towns, countries, and world.

The Rotary Club of Zionsville is a member of
Rotary International, the world’s oldest service club with more than 33,400 clubs in 209 countries and geographic regions. There is a total of more than 1,227,350 individual women and men who call themselves Rotarians.

Rotary International is one of the most effective
non-governmental organizations in the realm of health, hunger and humanities. 


THE 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:

• 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.

THE FOUR-WAY TEST:

In 1932, Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor created The Four-Way Test, a code of ethics adopted by Rotary 11 years later.  The test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, asks the following questions: