frequent trips to the Post Office for the purpose of despatching 
slides, Flower Show equipment, medals, booklets and the like, 
trips to the bank, the keeping of a double entry set of books con- 
sisting of cash book, ledger, journal and membership recording 
book necessitating a monthly Trial Balance, the typing and 
mailing of notices to Presidents and Committees, the frequent 
preparation and typing of reports, the circularizing of the 
membership six times a year for the Bulletin and frequently 
for other purposes, constant revision of the mailing list and the 
preparation of new lists for the addressographing machine, the 
packing and despatching of the Bulletin envelopes and many 
other duties too numerous and varied to be recorded in a brief 
report. 
The monthly Directors' meetings require the sending of 
advance notices to each Director, the preparation of an Agenda 
for the President and a Financial Report for the Treasurer, the 
collection of all letters, documents, etc., to be submitted to the 
meeting, the typing of such material as is submitted in longhand 
and the taking of stenographic notes of the meeting which are 
subsequently transcribed, revised, condensed and re-written and 
copies made and sent to each Director who was not present at 
the meeting and to the Editor of the Bulletin for her files, and 
finally the minutes are copied into the loose leaf book which con- 
stitutes the official record of the Directors' meetings of The 
Garden Club op America. Virtually an entire day is devoted 
to the meeting, as the preparation for it and the actual meeting, 
consume the entire morning, and the afternoon is usually spent 
in taking care of the various requests made by the Directors of 
the Secretary after the meeting, noting the matters voted upon 
at the meeting and writing the necessary letters and memoranda 
for those Directors who were authorized to do specific things. 
Another day is required for the drafting, revising and typing 
in final form of the minutes and mailing them to the Directors. 
An example of the detail which is absolutely essential for 
accurate records and the protection of the interests of the 
individual members is shown in the statement that twenty-three 
specific acts are required of the Secretary in the acquisition of 
a new member, from the initial inquiry of the applicant through 
the stages of correspondence, filing, book-keeping and recording 
to the final placing of the name on the mailing-list and financial 
records of the organization, and this is only one item among 
many involving as much detail. 
Committee meetings are held at the Central Office averaging 
one a week, and bringing usually from three to seven persons 
in attendance. Chairs must be placed for their use, frequently 
the Secretary is asked to check up certain facts from the files 
and sometimes notices and memoranda are dictated. As the 
meetings consume from one to two hours, and sometimes longer, 
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