Petersburg Rotary Club

In an increasingly complex world, Rotary provides one of the most basic human needs: the need for friendship and fellowship. It is one of two reasons why Rotary began in 1905.

Rotary provides one of the world's largest youth exchange programs; high school and college clubs for future Rotarians; opportunities for spouse involvement; and a host of activities designed to help family members in growth and the development of family values.

Rotary is a service club. Its product is serving. Rotarians provide community service to both local and international communities. This is perhaps the best reason for becoming a Rotarian: the chance to do something for somebody else and to sense the self-fulfillment that comes in the process and return of that satisfaction to one's own life. It is richly rewarding.

The Early Years of the PETERSBURG ROTARY CLUB: Our club was chartered on May 29th, 1941 with 24 Charter Members. The philosophy of Petersburg Rotary: "SERVICE ABOVE SELF - He Profits Most Who Serves Best" Rotary is not of yesterday nor tomorrow but of today; not destructive but intensive; not exclusive but unique; not selfish but practical; not stilted and formal but social and fraternal.