Member of the Organization

The most important factor in the A.R.F. Youth Organization of Canada is the individual member. This is important because no administered organization such as the A.R.F. Y.O.C. can long endure without each individual member understanding and appreciating that it is within his hands to choose his own government while at the same time accepting his responsibilities to support the government of his own choosing. Administratively then, the individual A.R.F. Y.O.C. member first locally governs himself by participating in the election of Chapter Executive, which in turn, under the mandate given it by the membership body, accords government to the collective membership of the chapter.

The individual member elects those who will present him as chapter delegates at the A.R.F. Y.O.C. Annual Convention. These delegates, in turn, acting as the legal representative of the individual member of a chapter, elect the Central Executive. A.R.F. Y.O.C. then practices the classic and most useful type of representative government; but being a governmental system based on the intelligent participation of the individual member, its success or failure is usually predicated on the ability of each member of the organization to assume the responsibilities he bears, as wells as understanding the important position he enjoys in such an organization. Even as important, individual members are fundamentally responsible for the law of the organization. The A.R.F. Y.O.C. Constitution has been written and accepted by the delegates of Chapters at the Conventions. It is clear therefore that because the A.R.F. Y.O.C. function's on the basis of individual responsibility, the organization is as strong as its strongest member, and as weak as its weakest member. The participation of the membership in A.R.F. Y.O.C. programs and courses of action is then absolutely vital both to the good health of the chapter and of the organization as a whole.

The A.R.F. Y.O.C. then is necessarily impatient of deadwood membership. The organization is too dynamically inclined to drag along with it the dead weight of members who do not contribute as they ought to contribute. A member of the A.R.F. Y.O.C. receives from the organization only in proportion to what he/she contributes. There are no other rewards in the A.R.F. Y.O.C. - but the reward, the permeating sense of self satisfaction at a valuable contribution given the furtherance of the Armenian struggle for freedom and justice is perhaps the most precious reward known to mankind. Only the A.R.F. Y.O.C. among youth organizations can give you that feeling of satisfaction, the knowledge that you are contributing to the development of our beloved Armenian Nation.