Club Profile

The Bartlesville Rotary Club, founded in 1915, is one of the oldest and best-known service organizations in the community. With a membership of 155 men and women, the club represents a cross-section of business, civic and professional leadership throughout Bartlesville who are inspired by the Rotary motto of "Service Above Self."

Bartlesville Rotary Club members are often found serving on the boards of community non-profit organizations and in heading up various campaigns for civic and educational improvements in the city. Through its non-profit foundation and the volunteer efforts of its members, the Bartlesville Club has been instrumental in establishing Youth Court and initiating the Character Education program within the Bartlesville School System.  [More...]

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The 4-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as Rotary International president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy. This 24-word code of ethics for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The 4-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions: