Each year, Rotary District 6960 sponsors an essay contest for Middle School students. The students are asked to write about how “What the Four-Way Test Means To Me.” Judging is on the utilization and application of 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 earliest days of the organization, 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 The Four-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor, who later served as Rotary International President, when he was asked to take charge of a company that was 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. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The Four-Way Test 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:

  1. Is it the TRUTH?
  2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
  3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
  4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

These students were selected from a very competitive group of students. We offer our congratulations to these students and wish them well as they exemplify how to live by the Four-Way Test.

 

The Sanibel-Captiva Rotary meets at the Community House, 2173 Periwinkle Way and also on zoom. Doors open at 7:30 a.m., the meeting begins at 8:00 a.m. For more information about Rotary, please visit sanibelrotary.org. All are welcome!