Further suggestions for the fellowship
committee can be obtained from the
secretariat of Rotary International.

Program

The program committee is in charge
of the execution of the program plan
and gives immediate supervision to the
actual presentation of the program. It
should be borne in mind that it is the
aims and objects committee (or, in the
small club—the Board of Directors)
which visualizes the year’s work, plans
the year’s program layout, decides what
percentage of the total number of meet-
ings in a year shall be assigned to each
phase of Rotary work, and designates
definite dates on which specific phases
of Rotary activity will be presented.

According to Article VIII, Section
2(c) of the recommended club by-laws,
the program committee “shall prepare
and arrange the programs for the regu-
lar and special meetings of the club, so
designed and balanced as to carry into
effect the plan of the aims and objects
committee.” It is apparent, therefore,
that after the aims and objects commit-
tee has generally planned the work for
the year and allotted definite dates for
each phase of Rotary activity, the pro-
gram committee must see to it that
each Rotarian, or each Rotary club
committee responsible for a program
has that program ready on the date
assigned. The program committee will
also provide such incidental entertain-
ment as may be necessary to make the
program for the day interesting and
well balanced. The program committee
will have the responsibility to prepare
a program for any date which may not
have been specifically assigned to some

phase of Rotary activity for which there
is a committee. In other words, the
program committee must take the re-
sponsibility of seeing that each week’s
program is ready in complete form and
that everything is provided for its suc-
cessful operation.

“The Program Committee of the
Rotary Club” (Pamphlet No. 15) and
“Program Suggestions for Rotary Club
Meetings” (File No. 387) contain many
helpful suggestions. They can be ob-
tained from the secretariat which also
has program suggestions for special
occasions and will gladly advise any
club officer in regard to such programs.

Classifications

The principle of membership by
classification is one of the fundamental
bases of Rotary. A Rotary club should
present a cross section of the business
and professional life of the community.
Each distinctive useful service offered
to the public in the community should
be represented in the club by one and
only one member.

One of the first things that should be
done by this sub-committee is to make a
classification survey, i. e., a list of filled
and unfilled classifications. All the
recognized services should be listed
and established as classifications. Such
a survey is never final. As a community
expands and its business and _profes-
sional life grows, new classifications
should be established. The list of filled
and unfilled classifications should be
kept up to date. As new classifications
are established, they can be published
in the club bulletin. To keep the classi-
fications principle inviolate, proposals

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