Rotary is a worldwide organization of more than 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders. Members of Rotary clubs, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

There are over 32,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. As signified by the motto Service Above Self, Rotary's main objective is service - in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world.

    Paul Harris

    Changing the world through service was hardly uppermost in the mind of Paul P. 

    Harris when he founded the organization in 1905. He envisioned a new kind of

    club for professionals that would kindle the fellowship and friendly spirit he had

    known in his youth.