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Are you having trouble thinking of people to invite to your club? Try creating a Prospective Member List by identi‑
fying one or more persons whom you associate with the areas or occupations listed below:
Accountants_ ________________________________
Agriculture/Sales _ ____________________________
Appliances _ _________________________________
Attorneys _ __________________________________
Auto Dealers _ _______________________________
Bankers _ ___________________________________
Chamber of Commerce _ _______________________
Cleaners ____________________________________
Clergymen _ _________________________________
Colleges/Universities _ _________________________
Construction _________________________________
Contractors _ ________________________________
County, Town Officials _ ________________________
Dairy _______________________________________
Dentists_____________________________________
Department Stores_ ___________________________
Doctors_ ____________________________________
Druggist _ ___________________________________
Educators ___________________________________
Electricians __________________________________
Engineers ___________________________________
Extension Service_____________________________
Farmers _ ___________________________________
Fireman _ ___________________________________
Florists _ ____________________________________
Furniture ____________________________________
Funeral Directors _ ____________________________
Prospective Member List
Hardware _ __________________________________
Hospital Administrators _ _______________________
Insurance ___________________________________
Labor _ _____________________________________
Lumber_ ____________________________________
Machinery Dealers ____________________________
Manufacturing _ ______________________________
Neighbors ___________________________________
Newspapers _________________________________
Local Utilities _ _______________________________
Photographers _ ______________________________
Plumbers _ __________________________________
Police ______________________________________
Post Office _ _________________________________
Printing _____________________________________
Radio and/or TV ______________________________
Ranchers _ __________________________________
Real Estate _ ________________________________
Recreation _ _________________________________
Relatives _ __________________________________
Restaurants _ ________________________________
Retirees _ ___________________________________
Telephone _ _________________________________
Transportation _ ______________________________
Veterinarians _ _______________________________
Veterans ____________________________________
What’s in the Other Club Officers’ Books?
If you are president or vice president of your Ruritan
club, you will need to know what forms and materials the
other officers in your club have. Here’s a quick checklist to
help you keep up with everything:
Quarterly Activities and Attendance reports --
located in the Secretary’s Handbook. These forms are
also online under Club Resouces at
as are many of the other forms needed by Ruritan club
officers.
When your new club officers are elected in the fall, the
Secretary’s Handbook has that report.
The application for Ruritan of the Year, Ruri-Teen of
the Year, and Rudy Youth of the Year may all be found
in the awards portion of this handbook as well as the
Blue Ribbon Club award application and Outstanding
Club President award application. If your club secretary
completes the Activities and Attendance reports
quarterly and responds to the Membership Audit and
Invoice reports sent every month from the National Office
(paying national dues quarterly as required), records
will automatically be updated in the national database
concerning club attendance, growth, and dues payment.
This will help verify the records kept at the club level and
reported on the Blue Ribbon Club and Outstanding Club
President applications.
The Club Treasurer’s Handbook contains financial
logs (and electronic logs in Excel are available from the
National Office). All clubs will now need to file an IRS
990 N (electronic post card) if they don’t file the 990 or
990 EZ. See more information in this handbook on
page 43.
Of course, as explained on pages 5-9, most club, zone,
and district information can be accessed quickly on the
internet using the Member Management System (MMS).
Club