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RULES OF THE SOCIETY 1.
The Society shall be composed of past and present Members of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and shall be called the ‘PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY’.
2.
The objects of the Society shall be: (a) To promote closer relationships among Pembroke Members, and between them and the College. (b) To publish an Annual Gazette, and to issue it free to all Members of the Society.
3.
The subscription for Life Membership of the Society shall be decided from time to time by the Committee.*
4.
The Officers of the Society shall be a President, one or more VicePresidents, a Chair of Committee, a Treasurer, an Honorary Secretary (who shall be a Fellow of the College), the Dinner Secretaries, an Editor of the Gazette, and such local Secretaries as may be desirable. The Officers shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting and shall hold office for one year. Nominations, with the names of the Proposer and Seconder, shall be sent to the Secretary six weeks before the Annual General Meeting. The retiring President shall not be eligible for re-election for a period of three years after his or her retirement. The office of President is held annually and alternately by a Fellow and by a non-resident Member of the College. He or she is normally expected to give the address at the London dinner, proposing the toast to the College (if a non-resident Member) or responding (if a Fellow).
5.
The Management of the Society shall be entrusted to a Committee consisting of the following Officers, namely the Chair of Committee, the Treasurer, the Honorary Secretary, the Dinner Secretaries, the Editor of the Gazette, a current Fellow (who has not been a Junior Member of the College), and not fewer than twelve other Members of the Society to be elected annually. Nominations for the Committee shall be sought in advance of and later recommended by the spring meeting of the Committee, to be ratified at the Annual General Meeting. Of the elected members of the Committee, six shall retire annually by rotation according to priority of election, and their places shall be filled at the Annual General Meeting; a retiring member shall be eligible for reelection after a period of one year from his or her retirement. The Committee shall have power to co-opt additional members for a period of one year.
