Electrical engineering education: On being an AIEE student branch counselor

SO THEY HAVE ASKED YOU to be the AIEE Student Branch Counselor at your school? I wonder why they picked you. I hope you don´t think it was because nobody else would take the job. No, the boys chose you because they like you and because they think that you are a capable person. Or perhaps you are being directly appointed rather than selected by the students. In either case, what are you in for? Is this going to mean the assumption of considerable responsibility, quite a bit of work, signing membership applications and seeing that they are forwarded to headquarters; telephoning prospective speakers who will come to address your branch; seeing to it that your branch will be effectively represented at prize paper competitions and at other District meetings, that your student officers are on the job, helping and advising them when they need you; checking to see that your chairman and vice-chairman are really learning how to manage the branch efficiently, that your secretary is keeping accurate records of meetings and sending in his reports to headquarters promptly, that your treasurer is keeping his accounts in such good order that the financial status (if any) of the branch is available at a moment´s notice? Yes, it is probably going to mean all this and more.