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Terre Haute Rotary Club
P.O. Box 10125
Terre Haute, IN 47801
What is Rotary?
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. There are approximately 1.2 million Rotarians that belong to more than 29,000 Rotary clubs in 161 countries. 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: First. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; Second. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society; Third. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business and community life; Fourth. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. The first Rotary club was started in 1905 in Chicago by Paul P. Harris. The Downtown Terre Haute club was established in 1913. For seventy years, the program of Rotary has been carried out on four Avenues of Service. These avenues-club service, vocational service, community service and international service-closely mirror the four parts of the Object of Rotary. Rotarians around the world participate in and administer a broad range of humanitarian and educational programs and activities designed to improve the human condition and advance world understanding and peace.