The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-05-15
Meeting of All Leaders of
Stearns County

StearnS County
AS president of the Gopher Prai-
srie Club I am writing this in a
story for the benefit of our club
members.
Saturday, May 10, five members
of our club journeyed to Cold
Spring to attend the All Leaders
conference held there. Those pres
sent from our club were as follows:
Martha Minette, president; Arnold
Botz, vice-president; Ruby Chris
tie, secretary; Vivian Minette, club
reporter; Roman BotZ, club memb
aer, and Mr.. Botz.
( Mr.. Kittleson, assistant state lead
er, and Mr.. Welch, county leader,
were in charge of the meeting. The
first thing on the program were
reports given by the various clubs
represented. They reported how
their clubs were progressing. Most
of the clubs have just been organic
\ ed in the past week or two.
The next thing How to Make
Clubs Successful was discussed by
( Mr.. Kittleson. To make club organi-
cation successful good leadership is
absolutely necessary. 1t is better
for your leader to know how to hold
. the interest of the club members
then to know the projects thor
oughly, but if he can do both so
/ much the better.
Another thing that tends to make
a club organization successful is a
definite program. The program
should be as follows: first, roll call;
second, minutes of last meeting;
third, report of committees; fourth,
club business; fifth talks; sixth,
demonstrations, and last but not
least fun and eats.
Meetings cannot be held without
discipline. Here are some rules to
follow: Members and others should
have permission from the president
before speaking and should arise
when speaking and whispering dur
ing meetings should not be allowed.
Children who come to meetings and
are not members nor interested in
All work but who come for a good
time and eats, should be weeded
out.
Clubs should be run on the II
month basis because if you don't
it means you never get organized
again on time. Once every year
the club should have an annual
meeting and elect officers; new
members should be taken into the
club. One or two meetings would
be necessary to tide you over the
winter months. During these
months the club members couldn't
study their projects and so know
just how to go ahead the following
spring. Home economics could be
carried on during the whole winter,
Next thing discussed was the
leaders. They are as follows: Keep
county leader informed, send out
followup cards, lead the club, hold
ing interest of members, explain
project to members.
Record sheets are important be-
cause by keeping them you can
show your expenses and profits
They also are considered in the
basis of award. The best way is
to keep the expenses from day to
day, not waiting till a week before
Achievement Day, July 10Th, to
start working on them.
All of the projects were outlined
and discussed as follows: Time linn
it to work on project, minimum re-
quirement and representation at
State events.
Additional things club members
should know is that no child under
II can win a trip to the State Fair
and no child under IA can win a
trip to the National Dairy Show
and other outside events.
An important thing to remember
in club work is that it is not so
important how many enroll but it
is important how many finish their
projects Martha Minette, Pres
ident of Gopher Prairie Club.