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- An organization of business and professional persons united worldwide
who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in
all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
- The world's first service club founded in Chicago in 1905.
- Over 29,268 Clubs with over 1,170,904 members located in 162 Countries.
- The Rotary Foundation, which each year provides over $77 million for
international scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian
projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions
of people.
- PolioPlus, Rotary's commitment to eradicate polio in the world by the
year 2000. More than one billion children in developing nations have
been immunized against polio. 154 countries are now declared polio free
with the last case in the Americas in 1991 in Peru. This year,
Rotarians from Cupertino Rotary will travel to Ghana, Western Africa,
to administer the life saving oral polio drops - 3,500,000 children
will be immunized in one day.
- Planning and carrying out a remarkable variety of humanitarian,
educational, and cultural exchange programs that touch people's lives
in their local communities and our world community.
- Membership is by invitation and is based upon a vocational
classification. Attendance at meetings is a basic obligation and a
member may make-up a meeting at any Rotary Club in the world.
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The Rotary Club of Cupertino was chartered in 1955 and has over
180 men and women representing a wide cross-section of local businesses
and professions. The club meets each Wednesday at noon at the Quinlan
Community Center, 10185 North Stelling Road, Cupertino, for fellowship,
lunch, and interesting and informative programs dealing with topics of
local and global importance. Member fellowship includes many social and
sports events. The club is a member of Rotary District 5170 comprised
of 59 clubs and 4,000 members which is located in the greater Silicon
Valley.
Rotary is
SERVICE ABOVE SELF
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