Ruritan Club and District Officers' Handbook

Suggested Club Anniversary Commemoration (Make copies and distribute to all members attending. Invite a visiting official – highest ranking zone, district, or national officer – or other special Ruritan guest to read the Ruritan Official’s part while the club members respond.) Ruritan Official: On behalf of Ruritan National, I congratulate you on this occasion of your ________________ anniversary. You are a part of a significant movement that has enriched the lives of rural and urban people in the communities in which you live. Members: We will endeavor to strengthen one another, as well as the citizens of this community in which we live. Ruritan Official: Will you continue to unify the efforts of all members of our community toward making it an ideal place in which to live? Members: We will do so, in the spirit of those who founded this great organization. Ruritan Official: Will you continue to work with all agencies that provide unselfish service, and contribute to the progress of your community? Members: We will cooperate fully with any who endeavor to make our community better. Ruritan Official: Will you encourage and foster the ideal of service as the basis of all worthy Community Service? Members: We dedicate ourselves to that goal. Ruritan Official: Will you seek to create such a climate that rural and urban people may work together and understand the problems of each? Members: We will keep our minds open to our mutual problems, and will seek to understand one another. Ruritan Official: You, as Ruritans, have accepted some worthwhile and very admirable goals. Continue your fellowship and goodwill, that all of our communities may be enriched by your dedication to the ideals of Ruritan. Members: We dedicate ourselves anew, on our _______________ Anniversary, to the principles of Ruritan.

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Revised 8/2024