JANUARY 28, 2003
Russ Dix RUSS DIX greeted, PAT DANIELSON invocated, and BARBARA POOL introduced guest Peggy Fisher of the Kamiakin Club.
Camp Roganunda Work Day was announced by AMY NEAL as Saturday, June 7th. The first planning meeting will be held at the Camp Fire Office on February 11th at 5:30. Sweet rewards were promised for those who attend.
Blue Jeans was tentatively announced for March 3, 5 & 6. The dates are dependant on how the Davis basketball team does. More information from MARY BETH WRIGHT as it becomes available.
Interclubs for the month totaled five according to BETH KLINGLE. Two were accomplished this past week.
KIRSTEN STOFFER is looking for volunteers for her MLK Project. She needs someone to act as liaison for the booster club and a person for the reading program. Let her know if you are interested.
STEVE EMHOFF and PAT GILMORE were awarded Legion of Honor’s for their 25 years of service to Kiwanis. Good members are hard to find (see the program recap below for how to attract some new ones) so it is great to honor those who have served for so long. Congratulations STEVE and PAT.
JAT CARROLL conducted a lucrative sergeant and GENE ROSTVOLD called a rousing game of Bingo.
Member JOHN WARREN was the program on membership. He related the story of how he has been in membership ever since he was eight years old and was finally able to join Cub Scouts. He recruited friends to scouts because it was fun and he wanted to spend more time with these people. Exactly the reasons to ask people to join our Kiwanis Club, except we also serve the community
He challenged each of us to realize that we are all in membership in our attempt to attract customers to our businesses. It is not much different in getting members into our club. He took us through a number of systems that could apply to membership, but boiled it down to one central question: Why did you join? Most likely it was because someone asked.
He then offered reasons as to why members stay:
1) We like the people in the club and we want to spend time with them.
2) We are community minded people.
3) We enjoy the programs.
4) We want to cultivate new social and business contacts.
5) We want a quick community service commitment on our resume (although he pointed out that most of those types don’t last long).
Who should join was another question with a number of answers:
1) New people in the community.
2) Those not currently in a service club.
3) Business partners or clients.
4) People representing the community.
The final questions was, How to retain members:
1) Tell a positive story.
2) Build relationships quickly.
3) Involve new members (and those who haven’t been involved for awhile) in projects.
4) Talk about the club and its activities outside meetings.
John challenged us at the end of his presentation to pick up the phone, dial the number, and ask someone to join you at a meeting. He said that the worst that can happen is they will say no, but most likely they will be flattered you cared enough to ask and our club will be on its way.
Back to Local Headlines
|
