The Rotary Club of
Jacksonville-Applegate

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Welcome to the Rotary Club of Jacksonville-Applegate

I am honored to have been chosen by this club as its 2008 - 2009 President.  Our focus is in making our local and world communities better places to live. 

If you are not a Rotarian, you live in the Jacksonville area, and you are interested in learning more about Rotary, please contact us.  We would be pleased to talk to you about Rotary and how you, too, may become a member of this International service organization.

Our weekly meetings are held each Thursday morning, 6:45 am, upstairs at the Bella Union Restaurant.

Four Avenues of Service

Based on the Object of Rotary (below), the Four Avenues of Service are Rotary's philosophical cornerstone and the foundation on which club activity is based:

• Club Service focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club.
• Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to serve others through their vocations and to practice high ethical standards.
• Community Service covers the projects and activities the club undertakes to improve life in its community.
• International Service encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary's humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world understanding and peace.

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.

Yours in Rotary Service,
Club President 2008 - 2009
Jill Tompkins