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        Wolfville Club History

        Our Paul Harris Fellows

        Our Club Presidents & District Governors

        Membership & Duties

        Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions

        Who Can Be a Rotarian?

Wolfville Club History

The Rotary Club of Wolfville (RCoW) was initiated during the winter of 1934-35 through discussions between Burpee Wallace, Cliff Fairn and Scott Eaton, with the encouragement of George E. Graham, President of the Kentville Rotary Club, and Dr. J.H. MacDonald, Honorary Member of the Kentville Rotary Club. The club held its first meeting on May 14, 1935 with 13 charter members in attendance:

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K.W. Cleveland H.P. Davidson E.S. Eaton S.C. Gordon G.E. Graham W.C.B. Harris R.S. Longley J.C. MacIntosh F.P. Rockwell B.W. Wallace F.C. Welch A.M. Wheaton J.W. Williams

Groceries - Retail Newspaper Publishing University Purchasing School Inspector Photography Building Supplies University - Provost Dentist Hotel Management Stipendiary Magistrate Fruit Exports Creamery Jewellery

The club became 'chartered' as RI Club # 3812 on June 14, 1935. Speakers at the Charter Night meeting included President Colin Taylor of the sponsoring Rotary Club of Windsor, Dr. J.H. MacDonald, Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Kentville, Dr. F.W. Patterson, President of Acadia University and the first Honorary Member of the RCoW, and Charlie Wood, District Governor. Approximately 70 guests attended this event.

In the first year, four new members, C.W. Fairn, C.H. Porter, B.C. Silver, and A.R. Stirling were admitted to the club, the first three of which could be considered charter members because of their early involvement in the club. 

The RCoW's first philanthopic club project involved creating and supporting a welfare program during the 'Depression Years' to assist a number of unemployed young men living in Wolfville.

Since that time, through a variety of fund raising events, the RCoW has raised substantial funds to support a wide range of community, vocational, national and international projects and programs.

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Our Paul Harris Fellows

The RCoW uses the Paul Harris Fellowship to honour extraordinary service to the community by a deserving club member or non-Rotarian. As a result, within the RCoW, the club makes the necessary $1,000 USD donation to the Rotary Foundation on behalf of the honoree. 

The Paul Harris Fellowship program, named after the founder of Rotary International, was instituted in 1957, and since that time 34 people have been so honored.

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Membership and Duties

Rotarians are business and professional leaders who take an active role in their communities while greatly enriching their personal and professional lives. A Rotary club contains a diverse group of professional leaders from the community that the club serves. Membership in a Rotary club offers a number of benefits, including:

 1.) effecting change within the community; 

2.) advancing business and professional contacts; 

3.) developing leadership skills; gaining an understanding of - and having an impact on - international humanitarian issues.

Through Rotary International's service programs, a Rotary club can have a significant effect on the quality of life in its community. Rotary Foundation programs offer opportunities to form international partnerships that help people in need worldwide. Some 1.2 million Rotarians in 30,000 clubs in more than 160 countries make significant contributions to the quality of life at home and around the globe.

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Declaration of Rotarians
 
in Businesses and Professions

The Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions was adopted by the Rotary International Council on Legislation in 1989 to provide more specific guidelines for the high ethical standards called for in the Object of Rotary.

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 to 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 with whom I have a 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 representations 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.

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Who Can Be a Rotarian?

Some people think that only certain individuals can be invited to join a Rotary Club.  This is not true; anyone can be a Rotarian.  As Rotary International President Rick King states, being a Rotarian is based on a “quality of the heart, not just on income or position”. In fact, every Rotary Club is expected to be a microcosm of the community and its membership made up of community-minded persons who represent all the types of businesses and professions that are found in that community.

A Rotarian is someone who is wishes to make a better world. By becoming a member of a Rotary Club, such as the Rotary Club of Wolfville, one is presented with many opportunities to fulfill this desire (e.g. - learning leadership skills, fellowship with other like-minded individuals in the Club and with Rotarians around the world, and participation in Rotary-sponsored projects in the Wolfville Club, in the Rotary District - NS, PEI, Nfld. and Lab. and St. Pierre et Miquelon - or internationally).

If you are interested in becoming a member of our Rotary Club, please feel free to contact our Club Secretary or any member of our Club. They would be pleased to provide further details on how to become a member.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - much of the above has been excerpted from the Rotary International website.

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