Full Text of HR0109 94th General Assembly
HR0109 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of | 3 |
| Chicago, Illinois, USA, was formed on February, 23, 1905 by | 4 |
| Paul P. Harris; the name "Rotary" derived from the early | 5 |
| practice of rotating meetings among members' offices; and
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| WHEREAS, Rotary's popularity spread throughout the United | 7 |
| States in the decade that followed; clubs were chartered from | 8 |
| San Francisco to New York; by 1921, Rotary clubs had been | 9 |
| formed on six continents, and the organization adopted the name | 10 |
| Rotary International a year later; and
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| WHEREAS, As Rotary grew, its mission expanded beyond | 12 |
| serving the professional and social interests of club members; | 13 |
| Rotarians began pooling their resources and contributing their | 14 |
| talents to help serve communities in need; the organization's | 15 |
| dedication to this ideal is best expressed in its principal | 16 |
| motto: Service Above Self; Rotary also later embraced a code of | 17 |
| ethics, called the Four-Way Test, that has been translated into | 18 |
| hundreds of languages; and
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| WHEREAS, The Four-Way Test is the standard by which | 20 |
| Rotarians judge all that they do; it was created in 1932 by | 21 |
| Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor, who later served as RI president; | 22 |
| it includes four questions: is it TRUTH?; is it FAIR to all | 23 |
| concerned?; will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?; and | 24 |
| will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?; and
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| WHEREAS, The Four Avenues of Service are Rotary's | 26 |
| philosophical cornerstone and the foundation on which club | 27 |
| activity is based:
Club Service focuses on strengthening | 28 |
| fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club;
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| Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to serve others | 30 |
| through their vocations and to practice high ethical standards;
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| Community Service covers the projects and activities the club |
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| undertakes to improve life in its community;
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| Service encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary's | 3 |
| humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world | 4 |
| understanding and peace; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1985, Rotary's members vowed to make the world | 6 |
| polio-free; this 20-year commitment to end polio represents the | 7 |
| largest private-sector support of a global health initiative to | 8 |
| date;
Rotary has already committed $500 million and countless | 9 |
| hours of volunteer work to help immunize nearly two billion | 10 |
| children throughout the world;
today, there are only a few | 11 |
| hundred polio cases worldwide, a 99.8 percent reduction since | 12 |
| 1988, when polio paralyzed more than 350,000 children a year; | 13 |
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| WHEREAS, In an effort to educate tomorrow's peacemakers and | 15 |
| ambassadors, Rotary recently launched the Rotary Centers for | 16 |
| International Studies for peace and conflict studies at eight | 17 |
| prestigious universities worldwide; the program provides | 18 |
| master's-level degree education in conflict resolution to a | 19 |
| group of 70 Rotary World Peace Scholars chosen annually in a | 20 |
| world-competitive selection process; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 22 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 23 |
| we congratulate Rotary International on the occasion of its | 24 |
| 100th anniversary; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 26 |
| presented to Rotary International as an expression of our | 27 |
| respect and esteem and with best wishes for the organization's | 28 |
| continued success.
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