Inner Wheel is an international organisation that is closely linked to Rotary.
(Before year 1989, Rotary generally prohibited women as members. The change in the international organization occurred only after many years of debate and a case before the United States Supreme Court (for more information, see the relevant section of the Rotary International article). Even after the change, women today make up only a tenth of the club's membership. )
Another organisation was established for the wives and daughters of Rotarians, known as Inner Wheel. Despite women now being able to join Rotary, there are Inner Wheel Clubs in many countries.
The International Inner Wheel objectives are as follows:
- Promoting true friendship
- Encouraging the ideals of personal service
- Fostering international understanding
2005/6 theme: "Support Gives Strength" 2006/7 theme: "Show that you care through friendship and service"
- 2008/9 theme: "Realise your Visions and Make a Difference"
- 2009/10 theme: "HELP bring HOPE"
- 2010/11 theme: "Commit with conviction, compassion, consistency"
- 2011/12 theme: "Think ahead, aim high"
- 2012/13 theme: "Be a friend"
Famous quotes containing the words wheel and/or club:
“one is in a shoe factory cursing the machine,
one is at the aquarium tending a seal,
one is dull at the wheel of her Ford,
one is at the toll gate collecting,
one is tying the cord of a calf in Arizona,
one is straddling a cello in Russia....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.”
—Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)