Port Chester Rye Brook Rotary Club

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The 4-Way Test
 
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 the 4-Way Test.

 

It was created by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor in 1932, when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy. Taylor looked for a way to save the struggling company mired in depression-caused financial difficulties. He drew up a 24-word code of ethics for all employees to follow in their business and professional lives. The 4-Way Test became the guide for sales, production, advertising and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy.

 

Herb Taylor became president of Rotary International in 1954-55. The 4-Way Test was adopted by Rotary in 1943. It consists of the following 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?

 

 

  John Kiyak, President

2011 - 2012

 

  

 

 

 

John Dick, Secretary

 

 

 

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First Tuesday: Breakfast at 7:30 am at the Hilton Westchester-Rye Brook, Rye Brook, NY 10573.  
All other Tuesdays: Lunch at 12:10 pm  at T&J's Trattoria, 227 Westchester Avenue. Port Chester, NY.
 
Port Chester - Rye Brook Rotary
400 King Street
Port Chester, NY 10573
(914) 939.2867