Marlinton Rotary sponsors golf tournament to raise money for Rotary /Beaulah Moore Scholarship – check out the photos.  Thank you to the playing teams, the sponsors and to Mitchell Chevrolet for sponsoring the hold in one!

 

Meetings

Rotary weekly meetings are held during the lunch hour from noon until 1:00 p.m. at the Snowshoe Career Center in Marlinton each Monday.  A local restaurant or caterer provides the meal; group business is discussed, fundraisers are planned and often a program speaker is scheduled.  Please join us!  For more information please feel free to contact the Marlinton Rotary President, Jim Burks at pocaphar@frontiernet.net

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.

The Four-Way Test

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 (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.

This 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The Four-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions:

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

 

2010-11 Marlinton Rotary Club Activities and Donations include:

Pocahontas County Veterans Honor Corp – Flags for County Graveyards Memorial Day

Girl Scout donation to purchase flag poles 

Pocahontas County High School Business Class Donation

Two $1,000 PCHS LPN Nursing Program Scholarships

Rotary International Water Project – Rotary District 7550

Two $100.00 Gas Card Raffles raised $ 970.00 for the PCHS Girls Basketball Team

Pioneer Day/Autumn Harvest Pork Rind Fundraising Projects

Back- to-School Back Pack Donation to the Family Resource Network

$1000 Rotary International Polio+ Project Donation to eliminate Polio Worldwide              

Dinner with Santa raised $ 591.00 for the Pocahontas Cooperative Parish Pantry

Provided dictionaries for every Third Grader in Pocahontas County Schools

Sponsored the Boy and Girl Scout Clubs in partnership with Parks and Recreation

Partners with New River Community College Foundation Scholarship Program.

Working with the Prevention Coalition on drug abuse prevention programs

Supporters of the Family Resource Networks – Project Christmas 2010

Supporters of “Go Marlinton”

Supporters of PCHS Health Fair