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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?

District 6510 Club Committees

Rotary Centers for International Studies
in Peace and Conflict Resolution Program

Ron Obernier - Chair
St. Clair County East

Purpose: Study for a masters degree at one of seven Rotary Centers for International Studies. You must study outside your own country.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors with high GPA
  • Minimum of three years full-time work experience in a relevant field at time of application
  • Proficiency in two or more languages
  • Excellent leadership skills
  • Demonstrated commitment to peace and international understanding
  • Not related to a Rotarian

    Education, lauguage fluency, experience, leadership, commitment, maturity. The average Rotary World Peace Fellow (RWP) is 32 years old.

    Number: About 60 Fellowships are awarded per year for a 2-year program (about 120 RWP Fellows at a given time; about 200 applicants per year worldwide from 529 districts). Each district can nominate one person. Not tied to District Designated Funds, unlike Ambassadorial Scholars.

    Time Table for 2008-2010 Class of RWP Fellows:

    March 2007 - Clubs interview and select candidates, submit applications to the District
    May-June 2007 - District committee interviews and selects candidate
    July 1, 2007 - Deadline for Rotary to receive applications
    July-October 2007 - The Rotary Foundation and Rotary Center university partners screen and select RWP Fellow finalists
    November-December 2007 - Districts and candidates are notified

    Stategy for Identifying and Recruiting Applicants:

    Long-term process: start years in advance - RYLA, high school faculty

    Contacts with universities and colleges, e.g. McKendree College, Paul Simon Institute, SIUC, SIUE, SWIC, other colleges - people who see students enroute to being good candidates

    Find where candidates "congregate" - Peace Corps Alumni, Congressional and other governmental interns, NGOs

    Advertise widely, develop contacts and educate them about Rotary and the Rotary World Peace Fellowship program; cultivate contacts who can lead us to the candidates. Club members know good candidates - get them involved.

    For More Information:

    Rotary Centers for International Studies
    in Peace and Conflict Resolution Program

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    Past District Governors

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    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.

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