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:
“Having a wheel and four legs of its own
Has never availed the cumbersome grindstone
To get it anywhere that I can see.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.”
—“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. F, Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly Mirror of Fashions, pp. 363-4 (December 1870)