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RI Presidential Message
commerce, research, the media, or any one of count-
RON D. BURTON
with competence and integrity. Every occupation fills
PRESIDENT 2013-14
a need, and by doing our work well, we are contrib-
less other fields – we take pride in doing our work
uting to our communities and our society.
OCTOBER 2013
In Rotary, October is the
month we set aside to remind
ourselves of our second Avenue of Service: vocational service. While some Rotarians
call this the "forgotten" area of
service, I would disagree: In
fact, vocational service is the
avenue
Rotary International
through
which we serve so
The role of vocational service in the club is important, even if it isn't always prominent. By maintaining
high standards individually, we earn a reputation that
we share collectively. By valuing all occupations
equally and by maintaining a classification system in
our clubs, we ensure that our clubs reflect our communities – and can serve them well. A Rotary club of
all lawyers wouldn't be capable of nearly as much as
one that also had teachers, engineers, business owners, and dentists; in Rotary, our diver-
often,
we
don't
always recognize it as service.
Vocational service has its roots in the
second object of Rotary, which encourages all Rotarians to hold high ethical
standards in our business affairs and our
“the idea of
sity is our strength. That diversity is
vocational service
an advantage not only to our service
is that our jobs, in
President Ron D. Burton
but to our members: It gives us all a
themselves, are a
valuable way to find the connections
way of serving
and opportunities that help us in our
society.”
professions, to recognize all useful occupations as worthy of respect, and to dignify work as
an opportunity to serve society.
own careers.
That aspect of membership is as old
as Rotary. Paul Harris himself wrote often of the
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