Never Stop Recruiting

We have 65 charter members of the Alma Rotary and a little over 1/3 come to meetings. This seems to be about average through out Rotary. Using this formula, if we wanted an attendance of 50 we would have to have 150 members. Just because we are having great meetings, and we beat Greenwood, is no reason to stop inviting good people to join Alma Rotary. Consider this article from the District Newsletter:

Why Don’t People Join Rotary?
We Don’t Ask Them!
From Frank Talk I, p. xxxii, Introduction • By Frank Devlin RI President 2000-2001“…the biggest reason why good people
don’t join Rotary is that we Rotarians
don’t ask them to. Oh sure, we ask our
sons and daughters, our close business
associates and friends to join sometimes,
but we so often don’t even think of our
duty as (Rotary) advocates with most
people we run across in our daily lives.
That doctor I met who had brought his
club president into the world has, in 49
years of Rotary membership introduced
only one new member into his club. He
told me he had delivered about 1000 babies
in his career. I think at least 10 percent of
them would have been excited, elated and
deeply honored just as his club president
was, if the doctor who brought them
into this world had invited them many
years later to join Rotary. What a missed
opportunity.”