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It has come to my attention that the Bob White Lodge is working too well together and is moving forward with great speed to a wonderful year. This must stop immediately. To effectuate this new policy, I am including this helpful advice A Ten Ways to Kill an Organization. If you follow my ten helpful steps, we can make sure our Lodge becomes dysfunctional.
1. Don’t attend meetings, but if you do, arrive late, and be sure to leave before the meeting is finished, then always be negative about the leaders, members, and organization. Publicly challenge their integrity, honesty, and commitment to the organization.
2. If trapped at a meeting, never have anything to say at meetings. Wait until you leave, then find fault with the officers and fellow members. Be sure to repeat all the unpleasant things about your club to everyone who will listen. Make fun of them while your at it.
3. When you are trapped at meeting, have fun. Be sure to sit in the back row so that you can talk it over with your neighbor or showoff how much you can disrupt the meeting.
4. When at meetings, vote to do everything. Then, go home and do nothing. Agree to perform a task, then do not do it.
5. Take no part in the organization's affairs including paying dues in a timely manner. Be sure to miss every deadline possible. Make sure someone have to chase you down for everything. Make it as difficult or inconvenient as possible to those who are working. If asked to help, always say you don't have time or must leave early for school, girlfriends, the lunar eclipse, to make sure the automatic sprinklers turn on or whatever specious or made up reason you have the courage to utter.
6. Get all the organization can give you, but don't give the organization anything. Accept all honors, but do no work. Proudly tell everyone about your honors, intelligence, good looks, experience, your wealth, athletic prowess, but remember, no work.
7. Don't do any more than you have to, never accept an office or an appointment. If cornered into accepting a position, never give any time or service and when others willingly and unselfishly use their abilities to help the cause along, gripe because the organization is run by a clique.
8. Talk cooperation, but never cooperate. Never compromise. At every opportunity threaten to resign, and try to get others to resign while you are at it. Try to get everyone to resign. Remember, always criticize your leaders whenever the opportunity arises. Remember, it's far easier to criticize than to solve the problem.
9. Never read any mailings, newsletters, websites, etc. which pertains to the organization. Take no action of your part to find out what is going on, then complain that no one called your personally to let you know what to do.
10. Try to stir up as much trouble and miss-communication as you can. Use broadcast or blind copy emails for the greatest affect. Never use all of the facts in discussing an issue. Leave out those pesky truths which make you look bad or those you criticize look good. Always take sides in misunderstandings between members, and be for the one with whom you talked last. Try to set as many members against each other as possible.
If we all carry through with this plan, I am sure we can make our Lodge the worst Lodge around.
I hope you enjoyed my list as much as I did in making it. Of course, we do not want to make our Lodge the worst Lodge around.
We all desire the best. However, when working together, we must always examine our own behavior to see if some small kernel of truth
exists in our behavior from the above exaggerations.
My Attaboy Award winner for Winter is Dale McClung. Dale is in his second year of publishing the newsletter. The Newsletter is an important Lodge function, but like most administrative work it is not as visible as other Lodge functions. We all complain when we do not get it, but we often fail to stop and ask how it gets out. Dale must beat the bushes for stories, articles, and photographs. He relies on the Lodge Officers to provide these articles and must make other arrangements if they do not provide any. He must confirm dates and information.
Once he is able to get them, he has to put them in the proper format. He must proof read the entire document. He must make corrections,
alterations, and deletions as necessary. He then must get the whole shooting match to the publisher and get it mailed. Dale worked through the holidays to make sure our last newsletter went out by the end of the year. Therefore, thank you Dale for all your hard work | 
