Hello Manny,
Every club will be different, as Ken pointed out, and should be based around what local members need or want.
Here's what we do at
ASWA:
*Monthly general meeting with guest speaker and formal aspects, preceded by an hourly lesson for beginners. The beginners class works on a rolling schedule so that you can join in at any time and eventually you get the whole lot! Minutes of the general meeting are published in the bimonthly newsletter, committee minutes are only usually read by the committee!
*monthly moon watching night known as 'lunatiks' for observing and drawing the moon - usually includes planet watching and what ever else is of interest.
*monthly deep sky night at a darkish location. Two camps away each year.
*monthly 'workshop' night to focus on practical and technical aspects such as scope use and astrophotography.
*club night where we just sit around a table and talk!
Telescopes get used at lunatiks, deep sky and workshop nights. Other nights are generally just talk nights. Plenty of opportunity to meet and talk to other members at all sessions as well as use scopes if members bother to get off their backsides and travel about a bit.
For public nights since we dont have a permanent observatory site it tends to be us going out to schools on request and the odd big public night on an oval somewhere.
We have had a few issues in the past with visitors and since I'm usually not afraid to speak up when I don't like it we try to keep visitor numbers small eg there should only be the persons immediately interested there and if possible accompanied by the member they are a friend of if that is the case. Bigger groups should be booking us for our services.