HIGH IDEALS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 800, 22 October 1929, Page 14

HIGH IDEALS

ROTARY AND NEW MEMBERS NEED FOR FRIENDSHIP Before he joins Rotary, a man thinks of it as a somewhat exclusive club, with high ideals, said Rotarian X}. Robertson, at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Auckland Club yesterday, in speaking on “A New Member’s Reactions to Rotary.” He advocated that prospective members should be interviewed, and have the objects and ideals of Rotary explained fully to them. Referring to the need for good attendances at Rotary meetings, the speaker referred to the natural shyness of new members, and the need for a. system by which they could be received with personal attention. He suggested a reception committee. Rotarian Robertson expressed members’ appreciation of the constant hospitality of Rotarian Charles Rhodes, and proposed that there, too, Rotarians should do their best to help new members to enjoy to the fullest Rotarian Rhodes’s functions. Referring to Rotary’s motto, “He profits most who serves best,” the speaker said many members objected to the word “profits.” But the term had a much wider spiritual meaning m relation to its application, for members derived great personal benefit from the humanitarian services they performed—the giving of happiness to

children in hospital, and the work of social service such as the Plunket Society and others.