The Aims and Objects Committee

Experience shows that a Rotary club
is strongest when its program is well
balanced, that is, when no one phase
of activity absorbs an undue amount of
attention. To have a_ well-balanced

program, there must be some plan of

operation. Since the Rotary program
is organized in four distinct channels
(club service, vocational service, com-
munity service, and international serv-
ice) it is desirable that one body should
survey and coordinate these different
activities. ‘That body is known as the
aims and objects committee, and every
club president should set up such a
committee.

In brief, the aims and objects com-
mittee, with the approval of the board,
gives general supervision to the plan-
ning of the year’s programs, so that
they are coordinated and well balanced
and cover thoroughly all phases of Ro-
tary activity.

Relation to Board of Directors

A club requires an aims and objects
committee as well as a board of direc-
tors. The work of the two groups is
complementary, and there will be no
friction if it is clearly understood that
. the aims and objects committee is re-
sponsible to the board of directors and
that all its activities must have the
approval of the board.

Personnel of Committee

The president and the secretary of
the club, with the chairmen of the club
service, vocational service, community
service and international service com-
mittees (four subsidiary committees
which should be set up at least in the

larger clubs to deal with the separate
branches of work) make up the aims
and objects committee. The club pres-
ident and secretary serve as chairman
and secretary of the committee, keeping
the board of directors at all times in
contact with the work of the commit-
tee and keeping the committee at all
times informed of the wishes of the

board.

The chairman of each associated com-
mittee of the aims and objects commit-
tee should realize that, in addition to
his duties as chairman of his committee,
he is also a member of the aims and
objects committee and, as such, should
keep in mind its broad responsibility
in regard to the whole Rotary program.

The board looks to the aims and
objects committee to see that each of its
associated committees is functioning as
it should, thus affording the board
more time to devote to the problems of
administration.

In a Small Club

In a small Rotary club it may be ad-
visable to appoint club directors as
members of the aims and objects com-
mittee and as chairmen of the asso-
ciated club service, vocational service,
community service and international
service committees, the president serv-

_ ing as chairman of the aims and objects

committee. In some small clubs addi-
tional members of the associated com-
mittees may not be required. However,
members of the club may be appointed
as subcommittees, particularly in club
service and community service. At all
times the development and accomplish-
ment of a well-balanced program for
the year should be the objective and

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