Shrine Clubs are what make the Children the “Heart of the Shrine”.
| Shrine Clubs are what make the Children the “Heart of the Shrine”. Shrine Clubs are the major support of our great philanthropy and a source of fun and fellowship. Shrine club Officers should maintain active programs that stimulate and interest both Nobles and their ladies throughout the year. Well planned activities create an appreciation of, and an affection for, our great fraternity. Scores of qualified Masons are within the operating area of every Shrine club and are just waiting for an invitation to join the Shrine. Each Noble should seek applicants for shrine membership – and prospects for club affiliation – from among friends and acquaintances. Each Club’s membership committee should work closely with Aladdin’s Membership Representatives and the assigned Divan Representatives to promote membership. Your Illustrious Potentate relies in large measure upon the cooperation and efforts of club leaders and members to achieve Aladdin’s goals each year. |
Shrine Club Guidelines
Official guides for the conduct of Shrine Clubs have been established by the Imperial Council as follows:
Each club should have a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Chairman, Medical Director and Publicity Chairman. All elected officers must be members in good standing of Aladdin Shrine.
The president will select members of his committees, each of whom must be a member of his club. They do not have to be a Noble of the sponsoring Center. The President is directly responsible to the Potentate. He shall see that the names of his officers and committees are reported promptly to the recorder of his Center so the the names will be on file for future reference.
The President is the Noble to whom the Illustrious Potentate and Recorder of Aladdin Shrine look to for the leadership and activity of Shrine affairs in his club.
Shrine Clubs are what make the Children the “Heart of the Shrine”. Shrine Clubs are the major support of our great philanthropy and a source of fun and fellowship.
Shrine club Officers should maintain active programs that stimulate and interest both Nobles and their ladies throughout the year. Well planned activities create an appreciation of, and an affection for, our great fraternity.
Scores of qualified Masons are within the operating area of every Shrine club and are just waiting for an invitation to join the Shrine. Each Noble should seek applicants for shrine membership – and prospects for club affiliation – from among friends and acquaintances. Each Club’s membership committee should work closely with Aladdin’s Membership Representatives and the assigned Divan Representatives to promote membership.
Your Illustrious Potentate relies in large measure upon the cooperation and efforts of club leaders and members to achieve Aladdin’s goals each year.
No organization of Shriners of any kind, meeting as such, using any of the emblems of the Order or having the title or letters indicating it to be an organization of Shriners shall be organized in the Jurisdiction of any Center except with the official sanction and under control of the Potentate of the Center in whose jurisdiction it is organized, and all Nobles, whether belonging to said Center or not, shall be amenable to the bylaws and regulations of said Center; also, no such organization shall adopt bylaws without their first having been assented to by the Potentate of said Center, and no such club or organization shall be permitted to incorporated under the laws of any of the several states, countries, or any subdivision thereof. Any such organizations so incorporating shall be subject to disciplinary action of the Potentate under whose jurisdiction the organization is functioning and shall be subject to such further disciplinary measures as the Imperial Council shall deem meet and proper.
Any such Shrine club or organization, however, may organize separately from the Fraternal club or organization itself, a non-profit corporation for the sole purpose of holding title to real property and personal property other than cash and securities owned by said club or organization. The trustees or other managing offices of said corporation shall be members in good standing of said club or other organization, and by accepting office in such corporation, shall be members in good standing of said club or other organization, and by accepting office in such corporation, shall nevertheless remain subject to the bylaws of the Center in whose jurisdiction said corporation is organized, and to the orders of the Center as to the conduct of said corporation. The Potentate may forthwith remove from office in said corporation, any such trustee or other managing officer for disobedience of said orders, or for violation of Center bylaws, with respect to the conduct of the affairs of said corporation.
The Potentate of Aladdin Shrine Center directs that all officers of Shrine Clubs send copies of all correspondence to their respective Divan Representatives.