Welcome to the Friendly
Westwood Village Rotary Club

Meeting Thursday noon at the UCLA Faculty Center
480 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, California 90095  USA

Information for Prospective Members

Rotarians are business and professional leaders who take an active role in their communities while greatly enriching their personal and professional lives. A Rotary club contains a diverse group of professional leaders from the community that the club serves.

Membership in a Rotary club offers a number of benefits, including:

  • effecting change within the community;
  • advancing business and professional contacts;
  • developing leadership skills;
  • gaining an understanding of — and having an impact on — international humanitarian issues.
Through Rotary's service programs, a Rotary club can have a significant effect on the quality of life in its community. Rotary Foundation programs offer opportunities to form international partnerships that help people in need worldwide. Some 1.2 million Rotarians in 30,000 clubs in more than 160 countries make significant contributions to the quality of life at home and around the globe.

Resources for Prospective Members

To find out more about Rotary's rich history and the organization's mission and structure, see About Rotary. Recent issues of the Rotary News Basket and The Rotarian spotlight Rotary club projects that promote literacy, provide disaster relief, support Rotary's global effort to eradicate polio, and address other critical community and world issues. See Becoming a Rotarian for Rotary's membership requirements and procedures.

Rotary membership is by invitation only. If you would like to learn more about the Rotary club in your community and its various service projects, contact your local club, which can be located by searching the Where Clubs Meet database. You can also search our Rotary Web sites database to see if your local club is online. To express your interest in Rotary, fill out the Prospective Member Contact Form and Rotary International will forward your information to Rotary clubs in your area.

Click here for a brief history of the Westwood Village Rotary Club; you may find a chronological list of our past presidents here.  For a one-page history of Rotary International, click here.  Asked to give a "Craft Talk"?  Click here for some suggestions.

Here are just a few more Rotary resources:
 
Rotary International Headquarters International Fellowship of Motorcycling Rotarians (IFMR)
District 5280 International Fellowship of Flying Rotarians (IFFR)
UCLA Rotaract Rotarians on the Internet (ROTI)
www.room711.org
(Where Rotary Was Born) 		www.1905.info
(The First Club) 		www.paulharris.info
(What Paul Harris Said) 		www.findingpaulharris.org
(All About Paul Harris)
www.earlyleaders.org
(Those who created Rotary)		 www.friendshiptrees.org
(Goodwill trips of the Harris') 		www.jeanharris.org
(Founder's Wife)		 www.rotaryafrica.org
www.rotaryasia.org www.rotaryaustralia.org www.rotarynewzealand.org www.rotaryeurope.org
www.rotarynorthamerica.org www.rotarycanada.org www.rotaryireland-uk.org www.rotarysouthamerica.org

Asked to give the invocation?  We are collecting a few suggestions here - send us your favorites !
 

Did you know that there is a Rotary Radio Channel on the Internet?  Click here to learn more.