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Rotary District 6960 sponsors an essay contest for Middle School students each year. The students write about “What the Four-Way Test Means To Me.” Judging is on utilizing and applying the principles of the 4-way test, creativity, organization, and language/grammar used.
We are proud to announce the winners of the Four-Way Test. All of the eighth graders at Sanibel School wrote essays for the contest under the supervision of Language Arts Teacher Alexis Computaro. The winners and topics were:
• 1st John Harris, Balancing Personal Interests and Academic Expectations
• 2nd Lucy Demaras, Time Management
• 3rd Danylo Zacharievich, Procrastination and Productivity in Middle School
From the organization’s earliest days, 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 Rotary’s The Four-Way Test, since it was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor when he was asked to take charge of a company facing bankruptcy.
Taylor created this 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives, which became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers. The survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy.
The Four-Way Test was adopted by Rotary in 1943 and has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions: “Of the things we think, say, or do:
• Is it the TRUTH?
• Is it FAIR to all concerned?
• Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
• Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
These students were selected from a very competitive group of students. The Rotary Club congratulates these students and wishes them well as they exemplify how to live by the Four-Way Test.
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