- ROTARY is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide,
which provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations
and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.
- ROTARY is the world’s first service club. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago
on Feb. 23, 1905, by a young lawyer, Paul Harris, and three of his friends. Their
weekly meetings “rotated” among their offices, providing the new service club with
its name.
- ROTARY has more than a million service-minded men and women belonging to more than
31,000 Rotary clubs in 166 nations in the world.
- ROTARIANS meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programs dealing
with topics of local and global importance.
- ROTARIANS plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational and
cultural exchange programs that touch people’s lives in their local communities and
around the world. Rotary is widely regarded as the world’s largest private provider
of international educational scholarships.
- ROTARY is The Rotary Foundation, which each year provides funding for international
scholarships, cultural exchanges and humanitarian projects that improve the quality
of life for millions of people.
- ROTARY’S motto is: Service Above Self.
- ROTARY International Theme for 2009-2010 is: The Future of Rotary is In Your Hands
- ROTARY world-wide is divided into 532 districts. The Saskatoon Rotary clubs are part
of Rotary District 5550 which is comprised of most of Saskatchewan, all of Manitoba
and NW Ontario.