Rotary
is an organization of business and professional leaders
united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage
high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build
goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 200 countries
worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to
more than 32,000 Rotary clubs. Visit our Fan Site on "facebook".
South
Hill Club Wins Governor's Cup At
the annual District 7600 Conference in Norfolk on October 15
-17 our club won the following awards: International
Service, Community Service, Net Membership Growth, Best Web
Site, Best Bulletin and Newsletter, Presidential Citation,
Outstanding President, Governor's Circle Award and then the
Governor's Cup. The cup will be on display in members
businesses for the next year.
South
Hill Celebrating 83 Years
The South
Hill Rotary Club was chartered in August 1928 as a member
club of Rotary International with 22 active members that
represented the various local businesses and community organizations.
The club was sponsored by the Petersburg Rotary Club and has
continued its service to the South Hill area since that
time.
Currently the
club is celebrating 83 years of service with 57 active
members and 3 honorary members.
All Rotary Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious and operate
under the motto "Service Above Self". Rotary’s main
objective is service — in the community, in the workplace,
and throughout the world. The South Hill club has established a primary focus of
its projects on education in the local community and on clean
water internationally with our current project of Bio-Water
Filter Systems in Haiti.
From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians
were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their
professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and
quoted statements of business ethics is "The 4-Way Test".
Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor, who later served as RI president,
created the Test in 1932 when he was asked to take charge of
a company that was facing bankruptcy. This 24-word code of ethics
for employees to follow in their business and professional lives
became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all
relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the
company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary
in 1943, the "4-Way Test" has been translated into
more than 100 languages and published in thousands of ways.
