(Sample) DISTRICT MEETING INSTALLTION
District Leadership Meeting
OUTGOING PRESIDENT:
As we pass the baton of leadership, we look to the future of this great organization, it is a time for celebration – because FCCLA is stronger than ever with each new leader we add to our ranks.
The leadership experiences that we have gained on the district executive council will continue to give us strength for our future; even as our term of office comes to an end and the next district officers take our place.
Waiting to be installed for the next year of service – please welcome them together for the first time as your 2017-2018 District _____ Executive Council!
Each current officer will introduce his/her “new” district officer according to officer title.
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REPRESENTING DISTRICT ____ AS YOUR ______is __ __ from the ____ FCCLA Chapter. (applause)
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REPRESENTING DISTRICT ____ AS YOUR ______is __ __ from the ____ FCCLA Chapter. (applause)
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REPRESENTING DISTRICT ____ AS YOUR ______is __ __ from the ____ FCCLA Chapter. (applause)
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REPRESENTING DISTRICT ____ AS YOUR ______is __ __ from the ____ FCCLA Chapter. (applause)
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REPRESENTING DISTRICT ____ AS YOUR ______is __ __ from the ____ FCCLA Chapter. (applause)
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REPRESENTING DISTRICT ____ AS YOUR ______is __ __ from the ____ FCCLA Chapter. (applause)
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REPRESENTING DISTRICT __ AS YOUR FIRST VICE PRESIDENT IS __ __ from the _ __ FCCLA Chapter. (applause)
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THE 2017-2018 FCCLA DISTRICT ______PRESIDENT IS ______from the __ _ FCCLA Chapter. (applause)
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THIS IS YOUR 2017-2018 FCCLA DISTRICT ______EXECUTIVE COUNCIL!
OUTGOING PRESIDENT
It’s up to you now – the new district _____ executive council, and all of you in the audience – to publicize and promote FCCLA even more in the years and decades to come. It is your dynamic leadership that will lead the way.
Don’t settle for anything less than excellence, and let FCCLA make a difference in your life for FCCLA is truly the ultimate leadership experience!
Outgoing President continues:
WE WILL BEGIN.
This candle represents the light of family and consumer sciences education as it radiates throughout the world. It is the light of our ideals, our purpose –for we know as FCCLA members, we have an opportunity to strengthen individual, family, and community life.
Name______
This candle represents our first purpose – to provide opportunities for personal development and preparation for adult life.
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This candle represents our second purpose –to strengthen the function of the family as the basic unit of society.
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This candle represents our third purpose – to encourage democracy through cooperative action in the home and community.
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This candle represents our fourth purpose – to encourage individual and group involvement in helping achieve global cooperation and harmony.
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This candle represents our fifth purpose – to promote greater understanding between youth and adults.
This candle represents our sixth purpose – to provide opportunities for making decisions and assuming responsibilities.
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This candle represents our seventh purpose – to prepare for the multiple roles of men and women in today’s society.
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And this candle represents our eighth purpose – to promote family and consumer sciences and related occupations.
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Each candle, each year symbolizes one more step in the process of individual growth. The installation of new officers is both a joyful and solemn occasion. We congratulate them and look forward to their new vision.
OUTGOING PRESIDENT
Our lives are bettered by our involvement in FCCLA, and our organization is only as excellent as the leadership potential in all of you.
As incoming officers, the highest honors of the organization are being bestowed upon you. We have faith and confidence in your ability to lead FCCLA forward. The pledge of your office signifies your willingness to do this. Please repeat after me.
OUTGOING PRESIDENT SAYS FIRST, THEN OFFICERS REPEAT:
I will…
To the best of my ability…
Faithfully perform all of the duties of the office…
To which i have been elected.
OUTGOING PRESIDENT
You have all heard the pledge your officers have made. It is important that you support them in the performance of their duties.
Will the president-elect please step forward?
The office of the president is a great responsibility. Your focus will provide us all with leadership and direction.
You will want to be firm, impartial, considerate and a friend to all members. Are you familiar with the duties expected of you as fccla’s incoming president?
PRESIDENT-ELECT:
YES, I AM.
OUTGOING PRESIDENT
By giving this gavel to you, I now relinquish district _____ presidency of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America!
We are confident that the organization will continue to make progress under the leadership that you and the other district officers will provide.
(PASSING OF THE ROSES)
We present to you a red rose, the official symbol of the FCCLA organization. But also with the responsibility that comes with leading others.
(Applause)
PRESIDENT-ELECT
THANK YOU.
One-minute speech of acceptance by new president.
ENDING WITH NEW PRESIDENT
FCCLA members, we are challenged to accept the responsibility of making decisions that affect our lives today and the world tomorrow. Let us repeat our creed. Please repeat with me the words that help us all remember who we are, and what FCCLA stands for.
Members please stand and join us in the closing ceremony.
RECITE the CREED –DELEGATES - JOIN IN:
We are the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America. We face the future with warm courage, and high hope.
For we have the clear consciousness of seeking old and precious values.
For we are the builders of homes, homes for America’s future.
Homes where living will be the expression of everything that is good and fair.
Homes where truth and love and security and faith will be realities, not dreams.
We are the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America.
We face the future with warm courage and high hope.
This 2017 District _____ Leadership Meeting of the North Dakota Family Career and Community Leaders of America is now adjourned.