Club Service - The First Avenue
CLUB SERVICE focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club. Club Service is service by members to the workings of their Rotary Club. It is this service that makes the Club Rotary wheel turn. It constitutes providing the basic needs for the good operation of the Rotary Club.
The Standard Club By-Laws require that each club have the following Club Service Committees:
ATTENDANCE: To encourage regular attendance, make-ups for missed meetings, promote incentives, find remedies for poor attendance, and recommend dismissals for failure to meet requirements.
FELLOWSHIP: To promote acquaintance and fellowship, create an atmosphere of cordiality and hospitality to members, guests and any visiting Rotarians. To keep membership advised of birthdays, anniversaries, special honors to members and those ill or disabled.
PROGRAM: The heart of every good club. To prepare and arrange the programs for each meeting - balanced in subject matter and covering one of the Four Avenues of Service.
MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: To review continuously the club roster of filled and unfilled classifications and to present to the Board of Directors the names of suitable persons for membership.
CLASSIFICATION: Concerns itself with eligibility for membership from the standpoint of the classification principle, remembering that classifications are determined by service to society rather than by position.
MEMBERSHIP: Evaluate prospective members' character and reputation (both personal and company). Is the proposed member "service minded", can attendance at weekly meetings and financial obligations of membership be met?
ROTARY INFORMATION: Inform members new and old of the privileges and obligations of Rotary. This is a continuous program on the workings of their club, their district, and Rotary International. The weekly bulletin, 'The Anchor Watch' keeps members informed of CLub activities as they happen.
It is noted here, that Club Service is perhaps the first and best indoctrination for all new members when accepted into membership.