About Us
Who Are We?
We are a fellowship of business and community leaders positively changing the lives of our members, the Eastern North Carolina community and the world.
Why Do We Exist?
The mission of the Noon Rotary Club of Washington is to ethically serve our local and global communities while providing challenges and opportunities for service and self-improvement for our members.
Service Above Self
Members of Washington Noon Rotary believe that being of service – to the Club, our community and throughout the world – is the best way to build successful businesses and deeply satisfying personal lives.
Rotary membership provides the opportunity to:
- Become connected to your community.
- Work with others in addressing community needs.
- Interact with other professionals in your community; assist with RI’s international humanitarian service efforts.
- Establish contacts with an international network of professionals.
- Develop leadership skills.
- Involve family in promoting service efforts.
Service Above Self
Members of Washington Noon Rotary believe that being of service – to the Club, our community and throughout the world – is the best way to build successful businesses and deeply satisfying personal lives.
Avenues of Service
Cultivate YOUR Passion for Service
If you want to make a difference in this world, form lifelong friendships with some of the finest people on the planet and use your professional expertise in service to others, get involved in one of Rotary’s Avenues of Service.
Our Story
the Four way test
In 1932, Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor, who went on to be a president of Rotary International, took on the task of salvaging the nearly bankrupt Club Aluminium Company.
Four-Way Test Coin. Herb felt that to succeed, they had to be morally and ethically strong. One morning he wrote down twenty-four words that became the guiding principles by which his firm would do business.
Those words became known as the “4-Way Test” and brought Club Aluminium out of the red in five years. In January 1943, Rotary International adopted the 4-Way Test as a code of ethics – a call to moral excellence – for all Rotarians.
The 4-Way Test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, obligates every Rotarian to apply four tests to all that they think, say, and do:
It is the TRUTH?
It is FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?