The Rotary motto is Service Above Self. Rotarians volunteer their time, skills, expertise and other resources toward improving the human condition. Regular weekly attendance is a vital part of Rotary and each Rotarian is expected to attend all regular meetings and is required to attend at least 60% of the club's meetings. If for some reason a member should miss a weekly meeting, he or she is privileged to make-up the missed meeting at any Rotary Club in the world, including 17 other clubs in Hampton Roads. These make-ups afford Rotarians an opportunity to make important business and professional contacts in the area as well bring ideas and information back to their home clubs.

Object of Rotary
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

 - FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

 - SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

 - THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;

 - FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.