Rotary Club Bogor

Rotary’s popularity spread throughout the United States and beyond. By 1921, Rotary clubs had been formed on six continents and the name Rotary International was adopted a year later.

As Rotary grew, its mission expanded beyond serving the professional and social interests of club members.  Rotarians began pooling their resources and contributing their talents to help serve communities in need.  The organization’s dedication to this ideal is best expressed in its principal motto: Service Above Self.

Rotary later also embraced a code of ethics, called “The 4-Way Test”, which has been translated into hundreds of languages.

From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world’s most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The Four-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor for his company and adopted by Rotary in 1943.

It asks the following four questions of the things we think, say or do:

• Is it the TRUTH?
• Is it FAIR to all concerned?
• Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
• Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?