From the Secretariat

of Rotary International
35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, U.S.A.

 

 

 

 

VOCATIONAL
SERVICE

 

 

The R.I. Secretariat serves as a clearing house for information which may be
useful to Rotary clubs. This file and many others are prepared from various sources
of information. Suggestions are appreciated.

FILE 903

 

 

‘. You'rt ON THE VOCATIONAL

SERVICE Committee?

Then you'll want to know your positim and respon-
sibility in Rotary's program of vocational service.

First of all, you will probably insist
that most business and professional men
---Rotarians and non-Rotarians alike---
believe in and observe fairly high
standards of practice in their various
relatimships. But you will admit
that there are some whose standards are
not even “fairly high" and also that
there is room for the majority to pro-
gress beyond "fairly high" standards. ©

And that's where Rotary enters the pic-
ture --- “to encourage and foster high
ethical standards in business and jro-
fessions." Obviously, the effort to
raise standards must be made by Rotar-
ians as individual business or profes-
Sional men, and in conjunction with
their colleagues in their respective
business and professional groups. But
it is the job of the Rotary club,
through its vocational service committee,
to stimulate its members to action.
This may be done in various ways:

l. Periodical presentations of tested
practices and the desirable conse-
quences which flow from them may
be made at club meetings.

2. Smaller groups, sometimes meeting
in the evening, may discuss ways
of getting high standards univer-
sally accepted and practiced.

3. The club publicatio and other lit-
erature may be used to keep the

members informed as to progress in
this field of service and aware of
their obligations and opportunities.

This function of stimulating vocatienal
service usually begins with the vocation-
al service member of the R.I, aims and
objects committee. He and his alternate

‘member and others whose afivice he secures

prepare suggestions based on past devel-
opments and en current opportunities and
needs. After approval of the R.I. aims
and objects committee and the R.I. board
of directors, these suggestions may be
transmitted to district governors and to
clubs by means of pamphlets and in other
ways.

At the international assembly incoming.
governors discuss methods of promoting
vocational service in the clubs. The
governors, in turn, assist the club offi-
cers when they meet them in district as-
semblies and on club visits.

The stimulating process, from the aims
and objects committee member to club of-
ficers and vocational service committees,
is one of education. The activity of the
individual Rotarian is one of operation.
It is the club vocational service commit-
tee which is directly responsible for
joining education with action. The ac-
companying chart simply puts into graphic
form the various steps of education and
operation which have been described above-

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