Service Above Self

From the President

Cortland Rotary Breakfast Club welcomes you! We hope you will take a few moments to check the many features within the site and see the various projects our Club sponsors and/or participates in. We are an active, growing Club that recognizes service in our local community is a springboard to national and international service. We welcome any comments or suggestions regarding this site.

Join us for a delicious breakfast, some spirited banter and an informative program at 7:00am every Wednesday morning at Center for the Arts in Homer, New York.

Don Richards

The Four Way Test

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, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy. This 24-word test 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 a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions:

"Of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"

What's Happening Next

Upcoming Programs-

4/24 - Chris Cushman-Connected Stitches Yarn and Fiber

5/1 -Pedro Torres - Image First

5/8 - Rosie Taravella - Hollywood and Back

5/15 - Scott Roman- 911 Call Center

5/22 - Youth Bureau Andrea Piedgrossi-Heather Johnson

5/29 - James McKeever - US Border/Migrant Presentation

6/5 - Joan Callahan, CARS Opioid Treatment Program

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.