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=The '''Elected Officers=''' of The Augustan Society, Inc., include both senior officers, who must be [[Directors]], and junior officers who do not have such a restriction:

*[[Chairman]]*[[President]]*[[Vice-President]]*[[Secretary]]*[[Treasurer]]

These offices are created by the [[By-Laws#ARTICLE V — OFFICERS|By-Laws]]. The office of Chairman is optinaloptional, and need not be filled. All are elected annually at the first Board meeting following the [[Annual Membership Meeting]], or the conclusion of the election of [[Directors]], if later. At times, it may be desired to create additional Vice-Presidencies. When this occurs, each should be given a distinctive title, like "Vice-President for Membership". When such exist, the Vice-President specified in the [[By-Laws]] should be styled "Senior Vice-President". The additional Vice-Presidents will rank after the Treasurer in the order they were appointed.

*[[Assistant Secretary]]*[[Assistant Treasurer]]* [[Investment Manager]] These offices are created each year by an act of the Board; they are not required in the By-Laws. It has been practice since 2007 that the first two offices were held by members of [[Headquarters Staff]] for reasons of practicality. It is customary that the [[Secretary]] will nominate the Assistant Secretary and that the [[Treasurer]] will nominate the other two.

 The ''[[Magister Rosae ]]'' is elected each year by the [[Noble Company of the Rose]] (and confirmed by the Board). Membership in good standing in both the Society and the Noble Company is required.  ==[[Executive Director]]== A proposal has been discussed to create the office of Executive Director. This officer would be elected by the [[Board]] and serve at their pleasure. He need not be a member, but membership could be one of the benefits provided. It could be a paid position. When the office is filled, the Executive Director would have all powers of the Board except his own hiring and compensation, and amending the [[By-Laws]]. There are two motivations for creating this office. <ol><li>This was the de facto structure of the Society under our [[Founder]], and many feel that concentrating authority in a single individual is the best approach for an organization like ours.</li> <li>The Society has at times had trouble finding enough members to serve on the Board, and enough [[Directors]] to serve as Officers. Thus one adjunct proposal is to automatically create the office of Executive Director whenever the Board cannot muster enough members to obtain a quorum or enough volunteers to serve as the four primary Officers.</li></ol> The primary drawback to this option is fairly obvious: the wrong person in office could quickly lead to the failure of the Society. There is also the challenge of finding (and adequately compensating) a qualified individual. It is not clear if this is a worthy experiment, and it has not yet been formally proposed to the Board or membership. It would require a vote of the Membership to adopt.