Vocational Service Month

Happy New Year, Rotarians! May the year 2019 be the beginning of the best of our years!
January is the Vocational Service Month and so the focus is on how to make our Rotary lives intersect with our professional lives. As Paul Harris was quoted to have said in his autobiography, "Each Rotarian is a connecting link between the idealism of Rotary and his trade or profession."
Each of us, as Rotarians, have two obligations:
· To appropriately represent Rotary to those we deal with in our vocations and activities
· To represent and share our vocation to our fellow Rotarians
The two obligations connect to the Object of Rotary, which 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.
So as Rotarians, let us put always remember that as we interact between ourselves and as we transact business in our varied vocations.