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Updated: 25 August, 2008

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Four Way Test

Some believe that peace is a destination; and there are those who think that it is a mode of travel. Rotary Global History Fellowship is a journey of peace.
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4 Way Test/Ethics?

“The sole purpose of any reproduction or use of The Four-Way Test should be the ... The Four-Way Test should not be referred to as a "code" in any sense. ...
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Four Way "Texas"

Rotary’s Four-Way Test is a means to find out the merit of a man or woman ... Also he came to this added conclusion: “…the Four-Way Test should not be ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ historians/joekagle/fourwaytest.htm - 46k -

Examples

Club selfishness and the four way test sleeps. Whenever raw overtaking rules are at ... The four way test slips, it simply just sleeps! Yours-in-Rotaract ...
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Code of Ethics

(also read: Is the Four Way Test a Code of Ethics?) ... Cyndi Beck , in the RI Archives, has stated, “The Four-Way Test is not a 'code' and the Rotary Code ...
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1954 Taylor

3. build with Rotary's 4-Way Test; 4. serving youth; ... The Four Way Test, Courtesy of the Salinas Brothers, Rotary Club de Magdalena, Peru. Fausto Salinas ...
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www.latinamericaclubs.org

Four Way Test courtesy of Fausto Salinas, Rotary History researcher;. Rotary Club de Magdalena, Peru. Other South American Regional Clubs are listed at ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/southamerica/ - 35k -

www.historytour.org

January, 1943 Adoption of the Four Way Test, written by Chicago Rotarian Herb Taylor: "Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? ...
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Tenets & Symbols

There is a page on the Object of Rotary, and The Four Way Test, yet there is much more to be written on both. All of these pages feature multiple links to ...
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1955 Chicago

Herb Taylor , Chicago Rotarian and author of the Four Way Test was RI President for 1954-1955, The day prior Jean and Mrs. Silvester (Jessie) Schiele ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1955/ - 26k -

PRID Dr. Edgar D.(Ted) Gifford

1954 RI president and author of the Four Way Test, Herb Taylor. Ted Gifford remembers Taylor. First RI General Secretary Ches Perry ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/gifford.htm - 35k -

Louisville #45

The Rotary Four-Way Test came into poplar use. Three members served as District Governors in our second quarter-century and membership grew to 422. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ clubs/cities/clubs/45louisville.htm - 40k -

History of Rotary in Germany

The "Four Way Test" (From Germany). Die 4-Fragen-Probe. Bezüglich der Dinge, die wir denken, sagen oder tun:. 1. Ist es wahr? ... ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/regions/germany.htm - 56k -

History of RIBI

Of particular interest will be the way in which Mr. Levy's extremely ... of RIBI—Youth Exchange _"the Four Way Test"—"Rotary House" opened in London ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/levy/ - 59k -

Blacksburg, VA

The Four-Way Test /Vocation Service Award is presented each year to a citizen of the Montgomery County area who through his or here business practices, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/clubs-of-rips/blacksburg/ - 56k -

Hong Kong

... on the mood of Rotary gatherings as the thirties gave way to the forties. ... of the Club are called upon to expound "The Four Way Test": Is it TRUTH? ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ global/countries/hongkong/index.htm - 26k -

Adventures-1950

The Four Way Test. A Rotary club must be an active force in the community. Rotary has a fine record of doing good work with children's issues. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/adventures/ - 57k -

Dr. Frank Deaver

For most of his adult life, Frank has been “preaching ethics” in and out of the classroom, and has spoken and written on ethics and the Four-Way Test in ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/deaver.htm - 26k -

www.europeclubs.org

The "Four Way Test" (From Germany). Die 4-Fragen-Probe. Bezüglich der Dinge, die wir denken, sagen oder tun:. 1. Ist es wahr? ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/europe/ - 42k -

Rotary History Quiz

Four Way Test? The "Business Sharing" in early Rotary Clubs? "Fred" Sheldon's business philosophy? A violation of the "Rotary Code of Ethics?" Arch Klumph. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/history/quiz/ - 51k -

www.100partners.org

For reasons satisfied by the Four Way Test, we added five clubs, all of which could have been number one-hundred. We also added eight clubs mentioned in the ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/cities/ - 29k -

Rotary District 6580

Honor our legacy by living the Four Way Test. Honor our legacy by helping build the future with action and vision. Honor our legacy and show the world that ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/districts/districts/6580.htm - 33k -

Winnipeg #35

And that's your "Four Way Test" for today! Brief histories of the "First 100" Clubs. Rotary Club of Winnipeg 35. Rotary International District 5550 ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ clubs/cities/clubs/35winnipeg.htm - 46k -

Ted Gifford Remembers Taylor and Perry

Allan Mathis Jr., Herb’s grandson made far the best talk about Herb and The Four Way Test that I have ever heard at the Past and Present RI Officers ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/gifford/remembers.htm - 26k -

1983 Toronto

Tuesday’s plenary session highlighted youth with the theme “Youth Shows the Way... of Rotary” in which he discussed the meaning of The Four-Way Test. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/conventions/1983/ - 35k -

Partners Promoting Peace

During his UN tenure, Romulo cited Rotary’s Four-Way Test, saying, “Without goodwill, no international agreement is possible.” In a letter to his home club, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ historians/deaver/promotingpeace.htm - 31k -

Can Rotary Make the World Safer?

Could wars have been avoided with the prior application of our Four-Way Test? Is there a role that Rotary can play in reducing hostility? ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/deaver/safer.htm - 31k -

How Free is Free?

With commitment to the principles of the Four-Way Test, as well as to personal ethics, Rotarians embrace responsibility as a corollary to extremes of ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/deaver/free.htm - 30k -

RIP Mead looks back

... Racial Ridicule • RIP Pidgeon - Living Force • RIP Taylor - Four Way Test ... and thinking about with respect to Rotary in those days "way back then"? ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ presidents/1912mead/lookingback.htm - 26k -

Rockhampton

... early professional and business community, as a group of rugged individualists, was not perhaps initially ideal ground for planting the Four Way Test. ...
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RIP Dochterman - What is a PHF?

... on Racial Ridicule • RIP Pidgeon - Living Force • RIP Taylor - Four Way Test ... What would be a good way to encourage Rotarians to give "big money"? ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ presidents/1992dochterman/phf.htm - 28k -

Fausto Salinas

The Four Way Test (Animated). Global History. South America. Four Way Test in Spanish (Animated) · "What Paul Harris Said," a free, weekly "Rotary Minute" ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/salinas.htm - 21k -

Jonathan B. Majiyagbe

The friendship has a way of spreading to the local community. ... the Declaration of Rotarians of Businesses and Professions and the Four Way Test. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/why/2006/0718majiyagbe.htm - 31k -

RIP Greiner - Confessions

... Racial Ridicule • RIP Pidgeon - Living Force • RIP Taylor - Four Way Test ... In twenty-three years in Rotary, I have missed only four conventions and ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/ 1913greiner/confessions.htm - 45k -

Perry speaks to District 644 in 1959

As an illustration consider the Four Way Test which has had a notable acceptance in business and educational circles. The Rotarians of Daytona Beach, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/secretariat/perry/1959d644.htm - 68k -

Hosted Rotary Conventions in Canada

The true test of a Rotary Club is the kind of men it produces.” ... about “The Business of Rotary” in which he discussed the meaning of The Four-Way Test. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/canada/conventions.htm - 98k -

RIP Klumph - Old Memory

... Ridicule • RIP Pidgeon - Living Force • RIP Taylor - Four Way Test ... and leaning heavily on his hoe, the old farmer wearily continued on his way. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/1916klumph/lesson.htm - 45k -

[PDF] 13 TRFjuly-2005

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names, four way test and district web site address on a label pro-. vided for each book. It is amazing the level of respect and interest that these third ...
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Biography

Herb gave the right to use his famous Four Way Test to Rotary International in 1942 and ... (1954-55) He retained the rights to use the test for himself, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/1954taylor/bio.htm - 19k -

Sylvia Whitlock

I have served the district as Chair of the Four Way Test Speech Competition for six years and Chair of the Ambassadorial Scholarship Committee for as many ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ women/clubpresidents/whitlock.htm - 23k -

Newark #49

Sound business practices as emphasized by the Four Way Test are the personal responsibilities of all Rotarians. This is a part of Rotary's Vocational ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/cities/clubs/49newark.htm - 43k -

Providence #22

The Four-Way Test of Things We Say and Do is formulated by Chicago Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor. 1942 The Providence Rotary Club contributes $2808.93 for ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ clubs/cities/clubs/22providence.htm - 24k -

Doug Rudman, Historian

It's time that we started treating it that way." Doug Rudman. The "History" Project Overview. Tenets and Symbols · Code of Ethics · Is the Four Way Test a ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/rudman.htm - 51k -

RIP Hill - His Program

... on Racial Ridicule • RIP Pidgeon - Living Force • RIP Taylor - Four Way Test ... and Rotarians rise to the challenge of "paying their way" as they go. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/1934hill/program.htm - 31k -

Breaking Down Barriers

... Barriers • Building Bridges • Ethics – the Four-Way-Test – and More! ... In these instances, international understanding is certainly put to the test. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/deaver/barriers.htm - 31k -

Rotary Global History Fellowship Newsletter

We wish to thank goef lambert for his foresight in creating "Digaria" for Rotarians and visitors who advance the Four Way Test. http://www.digaria.com is a ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/newsletters/2005/12.htm - 43k -

RIP Havens - Opinion

... on Racial Ridicule • RIP Pidgeon - Living Force • RIP Taylor - Four Way Test ... In this way, the purposes and objects of Rotary are to be gained, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ presidents/1922havens/opinion.htm - 30k -

RIP Davis - "Peace Will Come"

... RIP Mulholland on Racial Ridicule • RIP Pidgeon - Living Force • RIP Taylor - Four Way Test ... The times are a test of its faith in us who are older. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/1941davis/peace.htm - 31k -

Aug. 22, 2001

The Four Way Test was started by a Chicago Rotarian (Rotary/One) in 1932. You can read more about it at www.rotaryfirst100.org/cities/. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/ newsletters/2001/2001-0822.htm - 29k -

WE LIE ALIKE

"The Four-Way Test was written by Chicago Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor - RI President 1954-55 - during a business crisis in 1932 and adopted by Rotary ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/rotarian/1925lie.htm - 44k -

[PDF] OURFOU ND AT IO N

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and is known as The Four-Way Test. Of the things we think, say or do:. 1. Is it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? ...
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RIP Mulholland on Racial Ridicule

... Mulholland on Racial Ridicule • RIP Pidgeon - Living Force • RIP Taylor - Four Way Test ... If you and I, as we penetrate the four corners of the earth, ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ presidents/1914mulholland/racial.htm - 35k -

Rotary History in the USA

Yet this brings us back to the beginning- the Four Way Test is an entirely ... [1] The Rotary orientation booklet entitled Adventure in Service states the . ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/regions/usa.htm - 76k -

"International Rotary"

... Breaking Down Barriers • Building Bridges • Ethics – the Four-Way-Test – and More! ... journalism has blended with Rotary in a most rewarding way. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/ deaver/internationalrotary.htm - 35k -

"Understanding" Starts with You

... Down Barriers • Building Bridges • Ethics – the Four-Way-Test – and More! ... While it is tempting to think of “our way” as the “right way,” we may come ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ historians/deaver/understanding.htm - 30k -

Early Years

Chicago Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor formulated the Four Way Test in 1932, and in 1989, the Council on Legislation opened Rotary to women. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/rotaryone/earlyhistory.htm - 37k -

Calum Thomson

"The Four Way Test," and an essay. Early Leaders. Arthur Sheldon's philosophy "behind the motto"; Jim Davidson. Lillian Dow Davidson's book "Making New ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/thomson.htm - 51k -

Philosophy of Rotary Presidents

RIP Klumph - Old Memory · RIP Mead looks back · RIP Mulholland on Racial Ridicule · RIP Pidgeon - Living Force · RIP Taylor - Four Way Test ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/philosophy/rotarians/index.htm - 22k -

Mats O. Ingemanson

Wallingford Vermont, Childhood Home of Paul Harris · Public Presentations · Four Way Test Examples · Paul Harris Signature · Paul Harris' office ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/ingemanson.htm - 26k -

District 5810

The club has had numerous students as guests, including our RYLA participants, and annually has a "Four Way Test" contest. For years we had a mentoring ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/districts/districts/5810.htm - 323k -

April 2003

Doug Rudman has written a piece called: "Is The Four-Way Test a Code of Ethics?" You can find it at http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/headings/4-way_ethics.htm ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/ library/newsletters/2003/2003-04.htm - 41k -

1983 Toronto Rotary Global History Fellowship Search History ...

Tuesday’s plenary session highlighted youth with the theme “Youth Shows the Way... of Rotary” in which he discussed the meaning of The Four-Way Test. ...
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Frank Deaver Peace Editorials

Section Home • Breaking Down Barriers • Building Bridges • Ethics – the Four-Way-Test – and More! • An International Christmas • We are Family • How Free is ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/deaver/peace.htm - 26k -

Rotary District 9600

The inaugural winner of the Rotary District Four Way Test Speech Contest in 2002 was Katie Reed from Maroochydore State High School. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/districts/districts/9600.htm - 256k -

An International Christmas

... Down Barriers • Building Bridges • Ethics – the Four-Way-Test – and More! ... a candle burning in the window to light the way for the Christ Child. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/deaver/christmas.htm - 30k -

RIP Pidgeon - Living Force

... Program • RIP Klumph - Old Memory • RIP Mead looks back • RIP Mulholland on Racial Ridicule • RIP Pidgeon - Living Force • RIP Taylor - Four Way Test ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/ 1917pidgeon/livingforce.htm - 22k -

[PDF] Chapter 7-8 Page 1 U NDOUBTEDLY the most misunderstood “avenue” of ...

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“The Four Way Test”; a simple but badly-worded series of questions ... Four Way Test to all the company’s staff. It reads (in full) “The Four ...
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The Power of One

... Down Barriers • Building Bridges • Ethics – the Four-Way-Test – and More! ... all-news network, and changed the way the world sees breaking news. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/deaver/powerofone.htm - 30k -

Rotary Friendship

... Home • Breaking Down Barriers • Building Bridges • Ethics – the Four-Way-Test – and More! ... Friends treat others the way we would want to be treated. ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/ deaver/rotaryfriendship.htm - 30k -

History of Rotary in The Netherlands

Four Way Test. De 4 weg test (From the Netherlands). · Is het waar? · Is het billijk voor alle betrokkenen? · Bevordert het onderling vertrouwen en ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/regions/netherlands.htm - 27k -

[PDF] PREFACE Page 1 PREFACE The originally intended task of the ...

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School, Four Way Test debate. Community — park cleanup, tree. planting, bus-shelter in Kurrajong Street, Guide Hall, 2. sponsored for RYLA. ...
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History of Rotary in France

Four Way Test. Le critère des quatre questions : (From France). Est-ce conforme à la vérité ? Est-ce loyal de part et d'autre ? ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/regions/france.htm - 54k -

[PDF] Chapter 9-10 Page 1 CHAPTER NINE GETTING TOGETHER T HE first ...

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Four Way Test could claim that it was a good convention. How. many of them are? But the fellowship was superb and if there were ...
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[PDF] The following abbreviations are used in this index: ABC ...

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FOUR WAY TEST, x, 147-149, 151, 152, 196, 197, 246. FOWLER, Lew, 302. FRAME, Capt AM, 291-292. FRAME, Douglas, 292. FRANKSTON, RC, 193. FRASER, A. ...
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77 History Rotary Global History Fellowship Search History ...

Its members have taken to heart the Rotary motto, "Service above Self", and the Four Way Test that has been accepted outside the Rotary organization as well ...
www.rotaryfirst100.org/clubs/ cities/clubs/77grandrapidshistory.htm - 35k - Supplemental Result -
 

 
 

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