Welcome

 

Such was the beginning of your Rotary Club, and this brief review was primarily for the newer members in the form of a wee bit of history and reflection.

Yet, the real purpose and hope was to possibly stimulate additional interest in the club and in recognition of all its many potential values to the individual, as well as to the community. So often we are prone to take things too much for granted, and we slip into a rut, to the extent that sometimes we wonder if we really appreciate Rotary and all it stands for, or are we content to become just a luncheon club with little or no concern in putting our own shoulders to the wheel and truly helping our president and other officers of this club and the organization in general move forward with the years?

....we are all over twenty-one and at various times we have come into this club as a new member with, I am sure, enthusiasm and anticipation....we have all accepted the privileges and honors and enjoyed the title of being a fellow Rotarian, but as the newness wears off and the years creep by and age moves along ever with us, apathy for the program may likewise lull our thinking into a false feeling of not being needed.

It is well for us to pause and appraise our own Rotary ship of State, take count of stock, if you will, and see if in our own minds we really measure up to all that we hoped to be when we first became a member....

The effectiveness of Rotary is not institutional, and it is not given form through corporate expressions. It is achieved only in the measure that each member of each Rotary club takes personal, vigorous, and constructive action to promote the principles necessary for the existence of Rotary....