The Rotary Club's mission is to serve our world through four avenues of service. Our goal is to enhance the quality of life and human dignity, encourage high ethical standards, create better understanding among all people through ...

● Community Service

● Vocational Service

● International Service

● Club Service

The Rotary Club flourished with the growth of Plainfield as the "Queen City". The club supported the needs of the community through the committee structure of Rotary International. Some of the club's projects and contributions to community service are listed:

Medical care, hospitalization and therapy for a high school athlete injured in a Plainfield High School football game in 1923. Following his partial recovery, the club even set the young man up in business.

Annual track and field meet for high school and later junior high school athletes. This project is the longest running, continuous service project of its kind in New Jersey, if not the nation.

Provided not only financial support but also guidance and sweat equity for the Boy Scouts, YMCA, United Fund, Salvation Army, Recreation Commission, American Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Red Bird teen center, Kings Daughters Day Nursery, Neighborhood House, Camp Endeavor, Muhlenberg Hospital and other charities.

Supported the Rahway Reformatory, Jamesburg School for Boys, Save-A-Life Campaign, Clothes for Needy Children, local defense council, sale of war bonds and stamps, Fort Dix recreation centers, cancer drives, nurse recruiting, Grinnell Youth Conference, juvenile jury work, juvenile delinquency, and the Elks crippled children program.

The Club constructed a wading pool at the Kings Daughters Day Care, installed a drinking fountain and landscaped the corner to create the "Rotary Mini-Park" in front of City Hall, erected flag poles at the Plainfield and North Plainfield athletic fields, and purchased a complete camping outfit for use by local boy scouts attending one of their World Jamborees.

Planted trees along Somerset Street in North Plainfield; participated in Main Street Clean-up Program; support the Adult Literacy Program at the Plainfield Public Library; sponsor youth Interact Clubs at Plainfield and North Plainfield high schools; collected used bicycles for distribution to central American countries; donated used clothing to a Sioux Native American reservation; sent used wheelchairs to a hospital in Buenos Aires; contributed to World Health Organization's eradication of polio

Presented hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship aid to graduating seniors from Plainfield High School and North Plainfield High School.