Green town News Letter
Charter Day: 26th March 2003. Meeting day, Every 1st and 3rd Friday. Venue: Varendra College, Rajshahi-6100
BULLETIN NAME: GREEN LIGHT
Rotaract Invocation:
The prepuce of Rotaract is to provided and opportunity for young men and women to enhance the knowledge and scales that will assist them in personal development to address the physical and social needs of their communities and to promote better relation between all people worldwide through a framework of friendship and service.
The 4 way test:
- It is the Truth?
- Is it fair to all Concerned?
- Will it Build goodwill and Better Friendship?
- Will it be Beneficial to all Concerned?
The 6 view of Rotaractors:
Rotaractors view point Fellowship through Service
01. To develop professional and leadership skills.
02. To emphasize respect for the rights of others based on recognition of the worth of each individual.
03. To recognize, the dignity and value of all useful occupation as opportunities to serve.
04. To recognize, practice and promote ethical standards as leadership qualities and vocational responsibilities.
05. To develop knowledge and understand of the needs, problems and worldwide.
06. To provide opportunities for personal and group activities to serve the community and promote international understanding and goodwill towards all people.
PAUL P HARRIS
Introducing
The Founder of Rotary
Paul Percival Harris
19 April, 1868-27 January, 1947
Paul Percival Harris the founder of Rotary was born in Racine. Wisconsin, USA on 19th April 1868. Paul was the second of six children to Georege N. Harris. A man with varied knowledge and experience, he received bachelor of Physical Culture and an honorary LLD degree from the University of Venmont and LLD from the University of Love.
Paul Harris was the first President of the National Association of Rotary Club (in 1910) and also of the international Association of Rotary Clubs (the name lster changed to Rotary international) in the year 1912. Paul was active in Rotary until his death on January 1947. Today the seed he sowed in 1905 has blossomed into a large tree covering 154 countries and geographical regions with 27,967 clubs having a membership of mearly 1.18 million Rotarians worldwide.
What is Rotary?
Ò 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.
Ò Rotary is the world’s first service club. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 23 February 1905.
Ò Rotary is some 1.2 million service-minded men and women belonging to more then 18,000 Rotary clubs in virtually every nation in the world.
Ò Rotarian meets weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programs dealing with topics of local and global importance. Membership reflects a wide cross-section of community representation,
Ò Rotarian plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs that touch people’s lives in their local communities and our world community.
Ò Rotary is the Rotary Foundation, which each year provides some US$ 90-million for international scholarship, cultural exchange, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life million of people. Rotary is widely regarded as the world” largest provider of international education scholarship.
Ò Rotary is Polio Plus, Rotary’s Commitment to work with national and international health organizations on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary’s 100th anniversary, More than one billion children in the developing nations with have been immunized against polio through Polio Plus grants.
