Avenues of Service
Club Service
The Rotary Club of Dayton provides leadership for weekly meetings under the director of member relations. To ensure that meetings run smoothly and effectively, we have chairpersons for the following committees: Program, Reception, Badge Board, Welcome Visitors, Invocation, and Sgt-at-Arms. In addition through the following committees we strengthen our membership: Remembrance and Visitation, Social and Fireside. The needs of these committees are often met by the members of the Red Ribbon Committee (new members) who are fulfilling their new member duty requirements.
Community Service
All Rotarians are encouraged to get involved in causes and endeavors whose mission is to enhance the betterment of their community. In addition to your other civic and/or charitable involvements. Rotary offers you service opportunities through the Ethics in Business, Peace, and Marketing & PR Committees.
Vocational Service
As you have been identified as a business/professional leader, Rotary expects you to engage in activities that will lead to the betterment of your professional. Obviously, one way to accomplish this is by maintaining high professional standards.
The Vocational Service Avenue also enables Dayton Rotarians opportunities to learn more about one another’s profession through the work of the Vocational Programs Committee through events such as the Annual Vocational Fair, Rotary on the Road and Vocational Profile Interviews.
International Service
On the international scene, Rotary International has had its largest impact on the eradication of polio worldwide. Our own club has contributed financially to this project throughout the years. In addition, we have become active through our own International Committee and Youth Exchange Committee and recently been working on a project in Ecuador to bring clean water to a village there. We continue to seek ways through Rotary International, District 6670, and individual Dayton Rotarians to support projects that will further greater understanding and goodwill among all peoples of the world.
Youth Service
The educational opportunities include the 4-Way Test Speech Contest, Coat Project, Interact/Rotaract, RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards), Rotary Reads and Student Mentoring Committees.
Declaration for Rotarians in Business and Professions
As a Rotarian engaged in a business or profession, I am expected to:
Consider my vocation to be another opportunity to serve.
Be faithful to the letter and to the spirit of the ethical codes of my vocation, to the laws of my country, and the moral standards of my community.
Do all in my power to dignify my vocation and to promote the highest ethical standards in my chosen vocation.
Be fair to my employer, employees, associates, competitors, customers, the public and all those whom I have business or professional relationship.
Recognize the honor and respect due to all occupations which are useful to society.
Offer my vocational talents to provide opportunities for young people to work for the relief of the special needs of others, and to improve the quality of life in my community.
Adhere to honesty in my advertising and in all representation to the public concerning my business or profession.
Neither seek from nor grant to a fellow Rotarian a privilege or advantage not normally accorded others in a business or professional relationship.
