I received mine sometime in mid-January.
George,
It sounds like you’ve got some good feedback here.
I think asking a chapter member to take responsibility for reporting membership status is a good idea. I don’t think asking the president to take on that additional responsibility (as a previous poster recommended) is a good idea. I am a chapter president and I do enough already. It’s nearly impossible to get others to share in the duties of running the chapter sometimes. I’d prefer to get more people involved so more of us have a stake in the success or failure of our enterprise. Most organizations tend to be run by a small group of people. What I mean by that is the same group of people tend to do the work while the majority just show up and expect things to be ready and rolling for them. But when you ask them to step up and organize food or another task they balk and say, “i’m too busy” or “ i’m not really good at that”.
It will be an uphill battle and we’ve simply got to expect attrition and shrinking of our membership. Younger people simply don’t put a value in clubs and organizations as previous generations did. That said, we’ve got to do all we can to ensure the survivability of our club but with the realistic expectation that it simply will be a smaller group.
