• The Rotaract Story

• Rotaract History

• Rotaract Clubs around the World - an exercise in progress August 2011

• Tracing the roots of Rotaract

• The Origin of World Rotaract Day

• Youth Service chronology 1916 to 1975

• Rotaract History - Western Australia

• Pedaling for PolioPlus

• The Rotaract Club of the Deaf Cebu

• The First Community based Rotaract Club, The Rotaract Club of Madras

• The early days of Rotaract in Great Britain and Ireland

• Rotaract excepts from: Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland 1975 - 2005

• Rotaract excepts from: A Tradition of Fellowship and Service � The Rotary Club of San Francisco at 100

• Rotaract � Partner in Service

After the success of Interact clubs for high school-age youth in the early 1960s, the RI board created Rotaract in 1968. The new organization was designed to promote responsible citizenship and leadership potential in clubs of young men and women, aged 18 to 30. The first Rotaract club was chartered by the Charlotte North Rotary Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1994 there were more than 149,000 members in more than 6,500 Rotaract clubs in 107 countries.

Rotaract clubs emphasize the importance of individual responsibility as the basis of personal success and community involvement. Each club sponsors an annual project to promote high ethical standards in one's business and professional life. Rotaract also provides opportunities leading to greater international understanding and goodwill. Rotaractors enjoy many social activities as well as programs to improve their community. A Rotaract club can exist only when continuously sponsored, guided and counseled by a Rotary club. The programs of Rotaract are built around the motto "Fellowship Through Service."

(FROM) http://www.icufr.org/abc/abc08.htm

from The ABC's Of Rotary, by past president Cliff Dochterman