District Governor Lance Singleton(L) shown with club president George Strecker (R)was in town last week, on the way to hitting close to a dozen clubs during the week.  You would never know it by his impassioned  presentation expressing his belief that Rotary clubs need to find ways to rejuvenate themselves, and one way is  by gaining more members by involving family in our Rotary life. His question to the club was "Why not invite family to join? Or, just attend an upcoming meeting? Let’s make Rotary welcoming to family members. 

My take on this is for many in our club, your son or daughter, your Son-in-law or Daughter-in-law, your brother or sister, "needs" to be a Rotarian!  Invite them to socials and find ways to make your events family (user)-friendly.  The next member of our club maybe should be your next of kin!
  
Lance also touched on inclusion as being a part of growing a club. Looking at the demographics of a club that is trying to grow in a college community, it may be necessary to have satellite meetings on more than one day a week or at multiple locations to attract the diversity needed to remain relevant.  Rotary International has remained at 1.2 Million world wide for over a decade with big gains in growth in nations outside the USA but losing population inside the US.  Lance says the leaders of the Rotary zones in the US are aware and are working to reverse this and ideas such as being more flexible in meeting places, putting emphasis on service rather than attendance, and community involvement are huge parts of keeping Rotary at the forefront of being the organization of choice to join if a young professional wants to make a positive mark on the world.