Rotary International District 6510 - Southern Illinois

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What is Rotary?

Rotary is an organization of business & professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

The FOUR-WAY Test

Of the things we think, say, or do

First - Is it the truth?

Second - It is FAIR to all concerned?

Third - Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Fourth - Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Loren A. Urfer - Chair
Richland County

Purpose: Promote Interact promotion and encourage extension within our district.

Goals: Speak at clubs when invited, publicize Interact in the district newsletter and on the website; organize a minimum of one additional Interact Club within the district.

Interact is Rotary International's service club for young people ages 14-18. Interact clubs are sponsored by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and guidance, but Interact clubs are self-governing and self-supporting.

Club membership varies greatly. Clubs can be single-gender or mixed, as well as large and small. The membership base can be drawn from the student body of a single school or from two or more schools from the same community.

Each year, Interact clubs complete at least two community service projects, one of which furthers international understanding and goodwill. Through projects, Interactors develop a network of friendships with local and overseas clubs. And, in the process, Interactors develop leadership skills and learn the value of hard work.

As one of the most significant and fastest-growing programs of Rotary service, with more than 8,600 Interact clubs in some 110 countries and geographical areas, Interact has become a worldwide phenomenon.

Program Guidelines

The following are the basic policies and procedures that govern the Interact program. More detailed information about program guidelines can be found in the Statement of Policy Relating to Interact and the Standard Interact Club Constitution and Club By-laws, which are available for download.

Each Interact club must perform at least two service projects a year � one that benefits the school or community and one that furthers international understanding.

Each Interact club must have a Rotarian advisor who is a member of the sponsoring Rotary club. This resource person must attend Interact club and board meetings and provide advice on organizing service projects, fundraising, and club administration. The Rotarian advisor also acts as a liaison between the Interact club and the sponsoring Rotary club.

An Interact club can be school-based or community-based. A community-based Interact club may draw members from several different schools within the territorial limits of the sponsoring Rotary club. The Rotarian advisor must attend every meeting of a community-based club. A school-based club is subject to the policies and regulations governing all other organizations of that particular school. In most instances, a faculty counselor � who may or may not be a Rotarian � is appointed to work with the Interactors. In the case of a school-based club, the Rotarian advisor is only required to attend the Interact club's board meetings.

The Interact constitution requires clubs to meet at least twice a month. To remain eligible for membership, Interactors must attend 60 percent or more of regularly scheduled meetings.

Interact clubs are self-supporting organizations that require little or no financial support from the sponsoring Rotary club.

Dues, if any, should be minimal; money for projects and activities should be raised through club activities.

Each Interact club must submit an Incoming Officer Data Form and an Interact Project Data Form to RI annually. Download forms.

An Interact club is not allowed to merge with any other organization.

District 6510 Interact Club

High School - Sponsoring Club - Rotary Contact

Althoff Catholic High School - St. Clair County West - Tom Egan

Belleville Township West High School - Belleville - current president

Brehm Preparatory High School - Carbondale-Breakfast - current president

Carbondale Community High School - Carbondale - Olga Weidner

Carterville High School - Greater Carterville - Bruce Childers

East Richland High School - Olney - current president

Hamilton County Senior High School - Hamilton County - Vince Mitchell

Joppa High School - Metropolis - current president

Lebanon High School - Lebanon - Jeff Thornton

Marion High School - Marion - John Harland

New Athens High School - New Athens - current president

O'Fallon Township High School - O'Fallon - current president

Webber Township High School - Mt. Vernon - Lynn Lenker

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Past District Governors

District Committees

District 6510 By-Laws

Governor's Trophy Winners

Carl L. Schweinfurth
District Rotarian of the Year

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.