Welcome to the Austin University Area Rotary Club Web Site

Programs

Aug. 23 - Fred Hansen brings a program on RYLA, including some of the participants ;

Aug. 30 - Mike Pinson, Past Rotary Internatinal Director, will speak on Rotary International activities ;

Sept. 6 - Labor Day - No meeting;

Sept. 13 - Allyson Young, director of human resources of K&N Management, operator of the licensed Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q franchise, will be our speaker. K&N Management received one of three state management awards and is in contention for the prestigious Malcolm Baldridge Award. Allyson managed K&N Management's application through the two-year process.

What is Rotary?

Rotary is a nonpolitical, non religious worldwide organization of service-minded individuals that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.

Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service through the development of:

• Fellowship among the Rotarians and the communities in which we live,
• High ethical standards in business and professions,
• Community service, and
• International understanding, goodwill, and peace.

Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000 Rotary clubs located in approximately 200 countries.

Rotary

Rotary is the best in the world at linking people of goodwill around the globe and then gaining their cooperation and support to make the world a much better place to live and work.

Rotary lives and breathes in our 33,000 clubs, and it is the clubs that improve lives by Building Communities – Bridging Continents. If we succeed in helping clubs to become Bigger, Better, and Bolder in the next year, then it will be clear that the best days of Rotary are still ahead. We are fortunate to be Rotarians! Together, we can make the world a better place!

Ray Klinginsmith
President, Rotary International