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The Rotary Club of Ballan
District 9780
Serving the local areas of Ballan, Greendale, Blackwood, Mt Egerton, Mt Wallace, Gordon and Myrniong
The Rotary Club of Ballan meets at the Flying Teapot, 111 Inglis Street Ballan, weekly on Thursday for 7pm start. The meetings close at 8.30pm. Rotarians and others wishing to attend a meeting must book with Gail on phone 5368 2367.
Membership is extended, by invitation, to a person of good standing in the community, and responsible people from all vocations whose place of business or residence is within the territory of the Club or adjoining areas.
Rotary clubs are grouped into Districts for administration purposes. Each District is supervised by a District Governor, who is nominated by the Clubs in the District, and officially confirmed in office at the Annual Convention of Rotary International. The District Governor serves for one year The Rotary Club of Ballan is in District 9780, which extends from Bacchus Marsh in the east and Ballarat in the west. There are 61 clubs and approximately 2000 members. The District is divided into groups for administrative purposes and Ballan is in group 8.
MEETINGS
The Rotary Club of Ballan meets at the Flying Teapot, 111 Inglis Street Ballan, weekly on Thursday for 7pm start. Dinner is served at the meeting there is a short business session, and a Sergeant's session (a light hearted period when members may be fined for "misdemeanors" committed, whether true or imaginary). At most meetings there is a guest speaker who addresses the meeting for approximately 20 minutes. The meetings close at 8.30pm. Apart from meetings most weeks, there are social events, partner and family nights and a range of project activities, which at times replace formal meetings.
HISTORY
The first Rotary Club was organised in Chicago in 1905, by a young lawyer named Paul Harris. He sought to form a Club which would bring together a group of representative business and professional people; a Club where members would join together in fellowship to get better acquainted. The fellowship they enjoyed soon developed into actions of service to others.
Today there are more than 10.319 Rotary Clubs with a membership of well over 1,203,256 in over 208 countries and geographical regions, a truly international organisation.
THE OBJECT OF ROTARY
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 the 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 FOUR WAY TEST
Members of Rotary are asked to apply "The Four-Way Test" of things we think, say or do
1 Is it the TRUTH?
2 Is if FAIR to all concerned?
3 Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS
4 Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned
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