Lioness

Skirt Twister

Major Duties

Attends Board of Directors and Club meetings.

Promotes harmony, fellowship and friendship among Club members.

Greets members and their guests at Club meetings. Makes everyone feel welcome.

Generates enthusiasm at meetings through appropriate stunts and games. Imposes minimal fines on members. Fines are to be directed to the Secretary or Treasurer and receipted.

STUNT AND GAME SUGGESTIONS - TAIL TWISTER

Stunts can occupy an important place in the social activities of the Lioness Club. In no matter what the form, the stunt has its place. There remains only the exercise of due consideration for the safety and sensibilities of members or guests. Whenever, for a moment, either of these is lost sight of, there is danger that any given stunt will work harm to the cause of the Club. The purpose of the stunt is to attract attention, to give the audience a hearty laugh, to inspire everybody to work harher in the spirit of play than she would feel like doing if it were merely work.

COIN COLLECTIONS

An enterprising Tail Twister had her fellow Club members “endow” the Club with all the pennies in their purses.

ARE YOU THERE?

Try this one at some meeting at which the attendance is 100%. Arrange to get from the Secretary a list of full names of the members so that the middle name is included. Read off the MIDDLE NAME only of each member present. When a member fails to respond to her name, her identity is revealed and a fine forthcoming.

ROUND ROBIN

Another Tail Twister has adopted a unique plan of “passing the buck” in connection with the fine-bank. The report of this Tail Twister's action is: “When a Lioness is fined she automatically is made a Tail Twister until she can find something to fine somebody else for. Then this Lioness becomes the Tail Twister. We think the idea is a good one. It certainly keeps the little bank in circulation.

A SHOWER FOR THE BRIDE OR MOTHER-TO-BE

Have the other members bring to the Club meeting the craziest presents they can think of for presentation to her. Have her open them while the other members look on. Of course, a shower of useful gifts could also be planned.

A SONG RELAY

The Chairman starts this stunt by singing the first line of a familiar song. She then stops and points to another Lioness who must sing the next line. The Lioness who is unable to continue with the song is fined. When one song is finished, the Chairman starts another by again singing the first line of a different tune.

TRANSLATE THE GOLDEN RULE

Here is a stunt that will be a source of much merriment among the members of your Lioness Club. Among your members, there are, no doubt, some Lions of foreign extraction who take great pride in their nationality. Have each of these Lionesses get up before the meeting and translate the Golden Rule into their foreign tongue. Anyone who refuses to do so should be fined.

POETRY WRITING

For participation in this game, choose eight or ten Lionesses who have a yen to write poetry. Choose them even if they don't have poetic inclinations. It's more fun that way. Each Lioness so chosen writes two lines of poetry on a piece of paper, then folds the paper back an inch to cover the writing, and on the top of the next section writes the last work in the sentence she has just written. Papers are then passed to other Lionesses who have to write two more lines ending in a word which rhymes with the word that is showing. The paper is then folded again and passed once more. After all the eight or ten Lionesses have written their lines, the paper is passed back and each member reads her literary masterpiece. You'd be surprised at the resulting poems. They may not be good poetry but they are lots of fun.

IMPERSONATIONS

Have a number of the members of your Club come prepared to impersonate famous and local characters. The impersonators may sing, act and talk. Dialogs between certain local people could be staged. After each performance, the audience is to guess whom the actors or actor represented. At the end of the program, let the audience determine the winners.

MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT

Various members are selected to stand and give an account of their “Most Embarrassing Moment” with the Tail Twister at liberty to fine the individual for anything she doesn't like about the story. One story may be too long; another member may be fined because her story is too brief; another because the story wasn't interesting, and another because the Tail Twister is sure the story isn't true. About the fifth story should prove absolutely satisfactory.

By remaining alert to what the Lioness Club members enjoy, the Tail Twister can successfully liven any meeting by providing a good time for all.

SOME MORE FINE SUGGESTIONS...

Brides-to-be and members who have just become mothers or grandmothers are “fine” prospects. A Lioness celebrating a birthday seldom escapes a fine.

Members who have been promoted at their jobs are usually fined when their promotions are publicized to the Club members. This is also tru of members elected into public office or those who have achieved community or professional recognition.

A Lioness sporting a new outfit or hairstyle could be fined for looking “too stylish”.

In short, a good Tail Twister is seldom at a loss for reasons for fining members.

But assessing and collecting fines is only part of the Tail Twister's job. When she creates fun and amusement and good fellowship in addition to the fine collections, she has done only a part of her job.

The Tail Twister's job is more important than that. She can be, if she desires, an indispensable part of her club.

OTHER DUTIES...

She can assist the Program Committee. Since the powers of a Tail Twister are operative at the Club meeting more than any place else, she will naturally be concerned with the type of programs her Club has. She will want them as interesting and varied as it is possible to make them. Therefore, she will cooperate in every way with the Program Committee.

She can assist the Attendance Committee. Whenever the attendance at the meetings is large, the Tail Twister will have greater opportunity. She will, therefore, be interested in the manner in which the Attendance Committee does its job; and will do everything she can to stimulate attendance at the meetings.

She can assist the Membership Committee. She can perform a genuine service to her Club by keeping a lookout for those members who are reserved or shy, and adopting appropriate means of getting them acquainted with the other members. This will be of inestimable help to the Membership Committee or the Secretary, making it unnecessary for them to make repeated requests for payment.

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DUTIES OF PRESIDENT

Linda

2013-11-18