About Rotary - Attendance

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WHY ATTENDANCE IS STRESSED

One of the responsibilities of your membership is attendance.  Your attendance at your home club is highly important to you and your club.  Regular attendance is a direct measurement of your interest in your club.  Many of our members attain 100% attendance, which is why we have working, interesting, worthwhile clubs.

Our Program Committees aim to get good speakers of meetings.  The speakers we like to hear do not care to talk to a small portion of our membership.  If they are good speakers they have the right to expect a good audience.  Without good attendance we cannot attract good speakers.

As the exclusive representatives of your classification, speakers have a right to expect your presence.  If you fail to attend you are missed and the audience is that much less inspiring.

THE HABIT OF ATTENDANCE

Attendance is a habit.  The habit of being present is constructive.  The habit of being absent is destructive, both to the Rotarian’s interest in his Club and also to the club’s usefulness/

All Rotary Clubs feel, with reason, that attendance is a definite indication of your interest in your club, & your club is not backward about stating flatly, if a member is not interested in attending regularly, it would be fairer for him to release his classification to someone more interested.

This conviction is derived from the experience of this club and from other Rotary Clubs.  A member who is regular is his or her attendance is an interested, working member. A member who skates upon the thin ice of the minimum percentage of attendance required in order to maintain membership is almost invariably the member who contributes little to the club.

That is the way it is in Rotary:  Rotary stresses attendance purposely and deliberately because lack of attendance is lack of interest, and no one long remains a member who has so little interest.