Lots of good suggestions here. What I would like to say is about the members after the club is formed. The most important thing to grow a club and keep members, you have to make each one feel special and give them something to do within the club. No mater how small the task as long as that member feels they are needed. If someone joins the club and is ignored for a few meetings they will not stay there long. There are a lot of task within a club that can be farmed out to the members, the President can not do everything and should not be expected to do it all. The Pensacola Club is thriving because of this policy, and has gained new members and kept them over the past few years.