nd report to the Club.
Section 3. The Program Committee shall have charge of the
arrangement of the program of each regular meeting and also of a
year book to be issued to the members at the June meeting.
Section 4. The Place Committee shall arrange the location of the
meetings of the Club and make announcement at least one meeting in
advance.
Section 5. The Hospitality Committee shall attend to the social
life of the Club.
Section 6. A Nominating Committee shall be appointed by the
President at the April meeting to report nominations of officers
and committees at the May meeting.
ARTICLE VII
Order of Business
The order of business at the regular meetings shall be: Call to
Order, Secretary's Report, Reports of Committees, Business,
Program.
ARTICLE VIII
Amendments
The Constitution may be amended at any meeting of the Club, by a
two-thirds vote of the members present, notice of amendments
proposed having been given at the preceding meeting of the Club.
CHAPTER XXV
RULES OF ORDER FOR CLUBS
An important element in club life is the training it gives in the
management of business in committees and public meetings. It is
indispensable that every club should learn how to work under regular
rules. Jefferson said that they secure "accuracy in business, economy in
time, order, uniformity and impartiality."
I--BOOK OF RULES
As a guide, every club should possess a copy of some accepted book of
order, to which to refer in cases of difference of opinion as to proper
procedure, and the law of the book should be received as final. Officers
and members should familiarize themselves thoroughly with the details of
such a manual. "Parliamentary Usage for Woman's Clubs" by Emma A. Fox
(Doubleday, Page) is satisfactory and up to date.
II--ORGANIZING
A small preliminary difficulty to some is how to organize an as yet
unorganized club. The first step is for any one present to rise and
nominate some body for temporary chairman, and when this is seconded, to
ask those in favor of the person named to say "aye" and the opposed "no"
and to turn over the meeting then to the person named. As it is only a
temporary office there is not likely to be any negative vote.
III--VOTING
Persons unfamiliar with club methods sometimes are puzzled as to ways of
voting. There are several. The simplest is for the Presi
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