Dear Membership Chairmen:

iI hope you have had a restful summer vacation and that you
are ready to start the new school year with real parent-
teacher enthusiam, for you are responsible for maintaining
and increasing the membership of your unit.

The membership chairman is THE salesman for your association.
Urge parents to "Invest in childhood and youth with a Parent-
Teacher Membership." Set a high goal for your unit. The
foundation of every parent-teacher association is memberhsip.
A solid foundation helps make a successful local unite Select
your membership committees carefully--choose members who
understand the parent-teacher objects, purposes, policies,
achievements, and activities, so they can present them proper-
ly to all prospective members. Keep in mind that the parent-
teacher organization is educational.

To do an effective piece of work the membership chairman
should be a thorough believer in the parent-teacher movement;
he should like people and be able to meet them easily. He
should understand the work in your community, and also the
achievements and activites of the national, state, and local
organizations, so he may speak enthusically of the "ALL-
INCLUSIVE" membership.

The governor has declared the week of September 22-28, 1941
as PARENT-TEACHSR ENRCLLMZNT ‘JEEK. City daily and rural
weekly papers alike proclaim this act to their readers.

In the National Membership Conference in Boston three
questions were discussed. The following are a few of them:

1. How does the parent-teacher association serve the
community?
(a) Molds public opinion
(b) Sponsors supervised recreation
(c) Protects public recreation
(ad) Helps interpret the school's program
(e) Promotes youth guidance
(f) Keeps parents informed on what is going on
in community.
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Who should belong? :
(a) Every citizen interested in preserving democracy.
(ob) Every citizen interested in the welfare of the
future generation