Chair Message
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Whether your club is thinking of a Vocational project at the international, district or local level, the most important event that can happen is to make that choice and get started. Determine your club's heart, choose the level, determine age and status of people you have the heart to serve (youth, adolescent, college or adult), then outline the project.
The worthiness of all useful occupations...
A farmer who had won many blue ribbons for the corn he grew, made a practice of sharing his best seed with his neighbors. "How in the world can you afford to do this?" he was asked. "Your neighbors are entering corn in competition with yours at the fair. Yet you help them with your prize seed."
Said the blue-ribbon corn-grower, "Why, that’s very simple. If I want to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors to grow good corn too. The wind picks up the pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, the quality of my own will suffer. If I want to grow good corn, I must help them to grow good corn, too."
Is it not obvious, that the same good counsel holds in every business or profession? If the effort to serve is to succeed, so much depends on others making the effort. This sharing of Rotary with others who are non Rotarians is having a great influence in raising the standards of practice in every field. Vocational Service is the phase of Rotary in which each Rotarian can be a winner of blue ribbons.
Improving employee relations
There is no way of estimating the positive results of Vocational Service by Rotarians. As a continuous pervasive influence on their personal practices in business and professions, its lines reach out through countless contacts and daily decisions to put joy into the routine task and honor into the dealings of the market place. To help himself and his fellowmen to achieve greater thoughtfulness of others and more usefulness to others is the Rotarian’s goal. Observing him at his job, one can see that service is his business.
Vocational Service is as simple as that
Go "pro-active" by encouraging your club to get involved. Several people at the District level are willing to assist you in getting started. We offer various services such as being available to meet with your Vocational Committee, provide speakers, present ideas to spark a local project, etc.
Don't overlook a Vocational Career Path service project
that might assist fellow Rotarians within your own club.
Think about the youth in your community and how you could
serve them. Maybe you would like to set up a data bank of
vocational information for your community or perhaps get
involved in a District project. (We are currently doing
a Vocational Survey, gathering information to be placed
on the District Website). Maybe your club has a project
that needs to become a District Vocational project, etc.
Bonnie Best, Vocational
Service Chair, 2007-2008,
Susan Jeffries, Fellowships
Contact, 2007-2008
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