| The Club is organized into committees based on the four avenues of service: Club service, Vocational Service, Community Service, and International Service. Members are encouraged to indentify areas of personal interest and participate in the appropriate committees.
The Four Avenues of Service, based on the Object of Rotary, are Rotary's philosophical cornerstone and the foundation on which club activity is based:
Club Service forcuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club.
Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to serve others through their vocations and to practice high ethical standards.
Community Service covers the projects and activities the club undertakes to improve life in its community.
Community Projects
Member participation in fundraising projects is expected. The Lakeville Rotary Club has one or two major and several minor fundraisers each year. Proceeds are used for scholarships awarded to students graduating from local high schools, community events and projects, and several international humanitarian causes. Specific programs we have supported include:
Lakeville Arts Center - The Rotary Club donated the electronic sign for the Lakeville Arts Center
Lakeville High School Scholarships
Student of the Month at Lakeville High School
B. Robert Lewis House
Camp Enterprise
Local Boy and Girl Scouts
Senior Citizen Centers
Science Olympiad
High Tech High Mileage Clubs
Community Action Council
Adopt-A-Highway (Highway 50 in Lakeville)
International Service encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary's humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world understanding and peace.
International Projects
Youth Exchange
Group Study Exchange
Ambassador Scholarships
Books for Africa
Polio Plus - the worldwide eradication of polio.
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:
- The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
- 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;
- The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
- The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
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