With Marion in the chair, thirty eight members gathered for the 2008
AGM. We had lots of apologies which
means that almost all of the 61 folk on our roll responded to the call one way or
another!
Marion began by mentioning the one great sadness of the past year
which was the loss of Ian Munro, a lovely man. Our heartfelt sympathies go to
Anne and her family. Many of us had attended Ian’s funeral.
The officers’ reports contained lots of thanks to all those who work
in every way to keep the branch ticking over. Special thanks to retiring
committee members Brian and Tony and Hello to the new ones Greg and John and
Keith O. Keith O and Keith E are swapping
jobs, Keith O is the new treasurer and Keith E is the new Minutes Sec.
The branch year was gone through with its successes and happily
averted near disasters, such as our caterer cooking food for 60 odd at the day
schooL on ONE cooker and the Ball almost having drums and keyboard only!l All
events had gone smoothly after initial hic-ups and the Dem. team got ( ate) through umpteen Burns’ Suppers with
special help on the pudding front!
Oh, yes, and this year at the meeting, we made sure that the gas was
switched off - remembering how last year, the assembled company was quite
stupified before it was realised that the kettle had boiled over and
extinguished the lighted gas.
One item of special note was that H.Q. having upped our subs. to £15,
our branch dues are down to only £1. Therefore Annual Subs. will now be £16 due
to the treasurer’s creative accounting which had so pleased the auditor that
the all the Accounts were ratified and
as such, signed, sealed, delivered, proposed and accepted.
We hope that the 7 new student beginners will return and all 4 classes
will continue in September.
The great branch “how to store the music wars” have begun. More of this anon. For up to date previous
history and where we are the noo – see
our web site!!
We hope to have music at 4 out of 5 of our socials starting with last
April when we had Ian Slater. Making
October our only recorded music event. August, to Andrew Lyon, December to Ken
Martlew. Into 2009 with Ian in February and April was going to be Phill Jones
but stop press news is that he got double booked and we are looking for a
replacement!!
So, the jolly meeting closed, dancing followed and a good time was
enjoyed by all!.