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:
“The wheel is come full circle.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overthrowing them exists in the union of numbers linked together by common opinion and effort ... the united watchword of thousands would strike at the foundation of the false system and annihilate it.”
—Mme. Ellen Louise Demorest 1824–1898, U.S. women’s magazine editor and woman’s club movement pioneer. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, p. 203 (January 1870)