The Rotary Club of Nelsonville is an organization of business and professional leaders united to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs.
The Nelsonville Rotary Club's membership represents a cross section of the community's business and professional men and women. The club meets at noon on Wednesdays at the Rocky Outdoor Gear Store. The meetings are non political, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.
2012-13 Rotary International Theme
Peace Through Service, the 2012-2013 Rotary International theme, was announced at the most recent opening plenary session of the International Assembly.
The following is taken from an article at the Rotary International website covering president elect Sakuji Tanaka's unveiling of the 2012/2013 theme:
Tanaka unveiled the RI theme during the opening plenary session of the 2012 International Assembly, a training event for incoming Rotary district governors.
"Peace, in all of the ways that we can understand it, is a real goal and a realistic goal for Rotary," he said. "Peace is not something that can only be achieved through agreements, by governments, or through heroic struggles. It is something that we can find and that we can achieve, every day and in many simple ways."
Peace has different meanings for different people, Tanaka said.
[. . .]Tanaka, a businessman from the greater Tokyo metropolitan area, shared how becoming a Rotarian broadened his understanding of the world. After joining the Rotary Club of Yashio, in 1975, he said, he began to realize that his life's purpose was not to make more money, but to be useful to other people.
"I realized that by helping others, even in the simplest of ways, I could help to build peace," Tanaka said.
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