3rd Vice Presidents

My sainted wife is quite the busy bee, belonging to a number of charitable organizations.  One, a venerable local group, engages in a variety of good-hearted activities - I am told - although most of them seem centered around raising money (50-50 raffles, putting the squeeze on local businesses, the works).

In support of these activities, they have evolved one of the most bizarre organizational structures yet invented by humans.  Rather than the more traditional functional structure we're all familiar with in business, theirs is more "make my friend feel important" - based.  Hence such positions as "1st Vice President," "2nd Vice President" and "3rd Vice President."  What differentiates these offices is completely beyond my ken, but I suspect the incumbents generally do whatever the President wants despite the fact that none are a stepping-stone to the Presidency.

Astonishingly, this apparently works.