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Awards
Suggested Club Anniversary Commemoration
(Make copies and distribute to all members attending. Invite a visiting official – highest ranking
zone, district, or national officer – or other special Ruritan guest to read the Ruritan Official’s part
while the club members respond.)
Ruritan Official: On behalf of Ruritan National, I congratulate you on this occasion of your
________________ anniversary. You are a part of a significant movement that
has enriched the lives of rural and urban people in the communities in which
you live.
Members:
We will endeavor to strengthen one another, as well as the citizens of this
community in which we live.
Ruritan Official: Will you continue to unify the efforts of all members of our community toward
making it an ideal place in which to live?
Members:
We will do so, in the spirit of those who founded this great organization.
Ruritan Official: Will you continue to work with all agencies that provide unselfish service, and
contribute to the progress of your community?
Members:
We will cooperate fully with any who endeavor to make our community better.
Ruritan Official: Will you encourage and foster the ideal of service as the basis of all worthy
Community Service?
Members:
We dedicate ourselves to that goal.
Ruritan Official: Will you seek to create such a climate that rural and urban people may work
together and understand the problems of each?
Members:
We will keep our minds open to our mutual problems, and will seek to
understand one another.
Ruritan Official: You, as Ruritans, have accepted some worthwhile and very admirable goals.
Continue your fellowship and goodwill, that all of our communities may be
enriched by your dedication to the ideals of Ruritan.
Members:
We dedicate ourselves anew, on our _______________ Anniversary, to the
principles of Ruritan.