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What is Rotary?

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders around the world. Rotarians work to help build vital communities, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and advance a more peaceful world through understanding, goodwill and service. Our guiding value is this: Service Above Self!

The Rotary Club of Grantsburg was chartered on 15 May 1940 with the assistance of the Rotary Club of Rice Lake Wisconsin. The Rotary Club of Grantsburg is part of District 5960. The district is located in western Wisconsin and east central, south central and southeastern Minnesota. District 5960 stretches as far south as Mankato, Albert Lea, Austin, Rochester and Winona, as far northwest as Elk River and Princeton and as far northeast as Rice Lake and Hayward. Along with the Rotary clubs in Siren / Webster, Saint Croix Falls / Taylors Falls, North Branch, and Chisago Lakes, the Rotary Club of Grantsburg is in Area 13 of District 5960′s fifteen areas.

There are more than 1.2 million Rotarians, members of more than 33,000 Rotary Clubs within 531 districts in 168 countries.

Who are Rotarians?

Rotary members are adult persons of good character and good business and professional reputation,

  • engaged as a proprietor, partner, corporate officer, or manager of any worthy and recognized business or profession; or
  • hold an important position in any worthy and recognized business or profession or any branch or agency thereof and have executive capacity with discretionary authority; or
  • having retired from any position listed in the above

What is the 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.
Rotary was founded by attorney Paul Harris, coal dealer Silvester Schiele, mining engineer Gustavus Loehr and merchant tailor Hiram Shorey in Chicago on the evening of 23 February 1905. At this first meeting, held in Loehr’s business office, these four men agreed to start a club based on the idea that businessmen could and should become personal friends. “The Rotary Club” name was adopted after the club’s original practice of holding meetings in rotation at the offices of club members. From the beginning and to this day, Rotary is about encouraging fellowship, mutual assistance and above all, friendship.
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