District Secretary's Corner
DGN Jude T. Doctora
RC Metro Bacolod
District Secretary
August 2012
Dear Beloved Club Secretaries,
By this time, you must have gotten a feel of what it is to be a club secretary. I sincerely hope that you are taking this passionately. Last month, I have not received any call for assistance, so I can safely presume that all is well from your end. In any event, I am here to help.
Also by this time, you must now be busy preparing the SAR for your respective club. Those that cleaned up their roster before June 1, 2012 through Member Access should have no problem reconciling the amount due for your SAR vs. your membership. Those that decided to manually do this, please reconcile diligently and accomplish the necessary paper works. But just be wary of the deadline.
Our District Governor Biboy Jocson will have started his Governor’s visits anytime now. As club secretary, please assist your President in this important visit of our Governor. Take this opportunity to seek the counsel and wisdom of Governor Biboy to give your club a hand in your programs and activities. This is the time that you can sit down and discuss face to face the District’s programs and how they align to your own club. I am pretty sure Governor Biboy will be happy to do this with your club.
On another note, August is Membership & Extension month for Rotary. I would like to suggest that your club spends one meeting to discuss the theme for this month. If you read the GML maiden issue, we set the initial membership goal per club as a springboard for our District to attain the ideal size as per R.I. What we hope you will do is discuss membership seriously and decide on a strategy to achieve or exceed the initial target. PP Raphy Tayco, our Membership Chair, will be happy to be with you in this journey. All you have to do is involve him.
Lastly, I hope that your club will make it a habit to spend one meeting discussing the Rotary theme for every month. Better still, do this on the last meeting of the prior month. This way your club’s programs are aligned with the theme.
Let’s enjoy our Rotary year and as Governor Biboy says…let us be Happy People …Helping people.
Yours in Rotary Service,
DGN Jude T. Doctora
P.S. Don’t forget to send your MAR for July by August 15, 2012.
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