Club Assembly - Membership

 Oct 3 - Harry Short,  membership services chair for our club, reviewed the results of a survey that was completed by all 13 members of our club. He first postulated that it was valuable, if not necessary, for our club to grow. The reasons given were: 1. Club can do more; 2. Replacement; 3. Retention; 4. New Ideas; and 5. Energy. Harry's analysis showed that in the 7 years it has been in existence, the club once had over 20 members. Membership was once as low as 9 and is now at 13. During the past year we netted 3 new members (5 joined, 2 left)  but we need to increase our efforts to bring in additional members. Harry then led a brainstorming session to gather the club's thoughts on how we might accomplish this goal of new members. In the short time we had, we distilled alll the ideas into four major categories. The club decided the top 2 we should concentrate on are: 1. Personal invitation of new members; and 2. Developing a stronger approach to using the media. Members then signed up to further develop the media and invitation initiatives and will share their plans in a near future club meeting Thanks Harry for a great session.