* [[Treasurer]]
These offices are created by the [[By-Laws#ARTICLE V — OFFICERS|By-Laws]]. The office of Chairman is optional, 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.
==Junior Officers==
It is customary that the [[Secretary]] will nominate the Assistant Secretary and that the [[Treasurer]] will nominate the other two.
==Other Elected Officers==
<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 of late 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>
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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.
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