Rotary of Park Forest Illinois

The Rotary Club of Park Forest was chartered in 1953 with Rotary International .  Our club is diverse in occupation, gender, and race. Following the weekly meal, we participate in a 30 minute program consisting of a visiting speaker or presentation.

The Rotary was founded in 1905 in Chicago as an outlet for business and professional leaders who wanted to volunteer and give back to their community.  Today, Rotary International includes more than 31,000 clubs in more than 160 countries worldwide.  Rotarians meet weekly for fellowship and discussion of local, regional, national and global topics. 

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.

We end each meeting by reciting our four way test in unison. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The 4-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions:

"Of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"
 

We meet each Thursday for lunch at the University Park Club and Conference Center located at:

23520 Crawford Ave.
University Park, IL  60466
www.universitygolfclub.com
 

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For more information, please contact Park Forest Village Manager Tom Mick at 708-748-1129 or via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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