Gallatin Rotary meets
Thursdays at Noon
in the basement of
City Hall, located at
132 West Main Street
in downtown Gallatin.

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

Rotary is the world's first service club. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago, Illinois on February 23, 1905.

Rotary is some 1.2 million service minded men and women belonging to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs in more than 160 countries worldwide.

Rotarians meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programs dealing with topics of local and global importance. Membership reflects a wide cross-section of community representation.

Rotarians plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational, and cultural ex-change programs that touch people's lives in their local communities and our world community.

Rotary is the Rotary Foundation, which each year provides over $90 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people. Rotary is widely regarded as the world's largest private provider of international educational scholarships.

Rotary is PolioPlus, Rotary's commitment to work with national and international health organizations toward the goal of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary's 100th anniversary. Rotary will have contributed over $500 million as well as an army of volunteers to this project. More than one billion children in developing nations have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants.

Rotary International is a worldwide humanitarian service organization with 29,000 clubs in more than 160 countries. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, members of Rotary are business and professional leaders united worldwide to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build good will and peace in the world. For more information about Rotary in Gallatin, call Chuck Barnett at 615-708-7839 or email him at info@gallatinrotary.org.