| By deliberate design of its founder Paul Percy Harris, Rotary membership is a cross section of people drawn from the professions, financial circles, commerce and industry. Membership is by invitation from a Rotarian.
Each Rotary Club member is "loaned" a classification "which covers the principal and recognized activity of the firm, company or institution with which he is connected, or if he be independently engaged in a business or profession, his classification shall be that which covers his principal and recognized business or professional activity" (Article V Section 2(b) Rotary Club standard constitution).
With its somewhat unique classification system and the requirement that Rotary Club members be executive level people, Rotary probably represents the world's largest consortium of management level and professional people.
When asked "What is Rotary?" most persons would say that Rotary is a "service club." To say that Rotary is a service club isn't enough.
It is true that Rotary advances the idea of "service above self" and "he profits most who serves best."
It is also true that Rotary has expended effort over more than forty years to advance the concept known throughout the free world as the Four-Way Test.
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