Rotary Club
gives away $1,100 in 4-Way Test awards
by Tina Mata'afa
Samoa News Writer
The Rotary Club
of Pago Pago honored 11 high school seniors this year with its
4-Way Test Awards, presented annually to students who best exemplify
the principles of the Rotary 4-Way Test.
The 11 4-Way
Test honorees are: Paulo Fogamoni, Faga'itua High School; Tricia
Sataua, Samoana High School; Suti Suti, Tafuna Poly Tech; Charity
Porotesano, Tafuna High School; Malaeoletalu Lobendahn, Leone
High School; Jun Wan, South Pacific Academy; Bingham Laie, Kanana
Fou High School; Noemi Suisala, Pacific Horizons School; Gloria
Tavita, lakina Seventh-day Adventist Academy; Talei Apted, Fa'asao
Marist High School and Jonathan Tafaoa, Manu'a High School.
"Congratulations
on being selected by your peers as the student within your school
who best exemplifies the principles of the Rotary Four-Way Test...these
principles are also a solid foundation for all, including young
folks, such as you, upon which to build a successful life,"
Pago's Rotary Club President Bill Maxey told the students in
a congratulatory letter.
"On behalf
of Pago Pago Rotary we are proud of your achievement and delighted
that you and your parents can join us to celebrate your achievement
at our annual Four Way Test Awards Dinner. Cherish your award
and include it in your application to college or for employment,"
Maxey added.
Students received
their awards on Saturday, April 26 during the 4-Way Test Awards
dinner held at Sadie's Restaurant in Fagatogo with parents of
honorees also in attendance.
The dinner is
held each year to honor students selected from each public and
private high school, chosen by a vote of their fellow classmates.
Each student received a check for $100 and a certificate recognizing
their achievement.
"These young
men and women and their parents, have a great deal to be proud
for being recognized by their peers, those who know them best,
as adhering to the highest moral and ethical character and standards
in their everyday associations," Rotarian Jim Mahoney told
Samoa News.
This is the 25th
year since the Rotary Club began offering the awards to local
students, said Rotarian Roy Hall, a local attorney who added,
the award's purpose "is to highlight high ethical conduct
in everything that we do and say to promote better fellowships
with others."
"I think
it makes the students think about how they were treated by others
and how they conducted themselves with their friends, other students,
teachers and family," he said. "By selecting a student
with these high ethical conduct, they recognize that they can
see it and realize that it should be recognized with an award."
In Maxey's letter,
the Rotary Club explains the origins of the 4-Way Test:
One of the most
widely printed and quoted statements of the business ethics in
the world is the Rotary 4-Way Test, the Rotary Club said. The
quote was created by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor in 1932 when
he was asked to take charge of a company when it was failing.
The eventual survival of that failing company was attributed
in large part to the adoption of that 24-word code in its everyday
business practices.
That code is:
Of the things
we think, say or do:
Is it the truth?
Is it fair to
all concerned?
Will it build
goodwill and better friendships?
Will it be beneficial
to all concerned?
Further, the
Rotary Club says Rotary International formally adopted Taylor's
code, its purpose to provide principles for the ethical foundation
of good business.
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