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The Meeting began with a two minutes
silence for us all to remember the lives of those Old Scholars
who have died in the past year and in particular Arthur Grainge
and Stanley Laverick.
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The President, Dick Dennis, gave his Presidential
address. |
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Greetings and Apologies
for absence were received from; Mary Kidd, Louis and Doris Trotter,
Mike and Barbara Adam, Johan Toftdahl, Keith Frearson, Joe and
Beth Tillott, Marion (Pollack) and Paul Wolff, Sheila (Manship) Wrightson, Tom
Manship, Jean (Manship) Shipley, Jenny Summerfield, Joan (Lishman) and Ron Kilpatrick,
Christine (Kilpatrick) Gardam, Margaret Eden, Kitty (Hart) and Bruno Andreis,
George Sanger, Tony Jeffries, Alan Smith, Margaret (Hutchinson) Cox-Walker, Diana
(Kidd) and Roger Neville-Smith, Ernst Brandt, Dinah Prior. |
| 2. |
The minutes of
the 113th A.G.M. were taken as read from the magazine, and were
proposed and seconded by Gill Jackson and Martyn Gaudie. |
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3. There were no
matters arising. |
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The secretary's
report was read by Margaret Carnegie.
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Dick reported
that the membership at present stands at 707, but if the "lost" life
members are added the total membership is 733, of these 442 are
Life Members. There were 25 new members this year but 21 members
have died.
So far this year the website has averaged between 500 to 800 "visits" per
day and the annual total to end of May is 140,400 compared with last year which
was 70,000. Dick's plans for the website for 2002-2003 are to include more issues
of the Beckside, e-Postcards and the Ayton Centenary History. The E-mailing list
has jumped from 180 last year to 300 (129 being non AOSA members!). |
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6. Treasurer's report
- the balance sheet was distributed and William explained that
there was a small deficit from the reunion last year but judging
from the figures already available for this year we may even make
a profit on the weekend.
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Gill Jackson read
out the Editor's report and expressed her thanks to all who helped
her, Dick, William, Cliff Weschenfelder, Dinah Prior, Suzi Scaife,
with various jobs concerning the production of the magazine and
Wendy Smith, Cliff, Mary Banks and Wendy's husband Nat, hopefully
for one year only, with
the distribution. |
| 8. |
Sue reported
that the last meeting of the School Committee was 27th September
2001 and as expected there was little to report. Money has been
given to Sidcot School and it has been used to refurbish a common
room. Alice Meager was invited
to officially "open" the room in October - it has been name the "Ayton
Room". Money is to be made available to cover expenses incurred in displaying
and preserving the archives, Jane Campbell has volunteered to continue to do
this work and we thank her for this. |
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Proposed acceptance
of the above five reports, Roy George proposed acceptance and Dorothy
Dawson seconded it. |
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Sue said that
yet again there needed to be a small change to the Constitution
but this was only a matter of re-numbering and reordering the last
three items. This was unanimously agreed, Acceptance was proposed
by Douglas Home and seconded
by Martyn Gaudie. |
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Re-election of
Officers willing and able to remain in office: Editor Gill Jackson
(1999 - 2003); Records’ Secretary, Dick Dennis (1996 -2004);
Reunion Coordinator , Tessa Snowdon (1999 - 2003); Treasurer, William
Pine (2001-2005); Convenor of Nominating Committee, Sonia Wade
(2000-2004); Ordinary Members, Martyn Gaudie (2000-2004), Samantha
Noble (2000-2004), Jenny Summerfield (2000-2004); Co-opted Member
Diz Dexter
School Committee Representatives
(1) Tessa Snowdon (2000-2003)
(2) Samantha Noble (2001-2004)
This was proposed by Neil Fox and seconded by Anne White. |
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Election of Officers
- on behalf of the Nominations’ Committee Sonia Wade proposed
Jill Wheeler as General Secretary This was seconded by Barbara
Clarke.
Ordinary Member Louis Trotter was proposed by Gill Jackson and seconded by Dorothy
Watson |
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Margaret Carnegie
proposed Diz Dexter as the third member of the Nominations’ Committee.
This was seconded by Suzanne Potter. |
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Appointment of
Auditor - Clifford Weschenfelder has agreed to become Auditor. |
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Nomination of
President Elect.
Margaret Carnegie proposed Gill Jackson as President Elect this was seconded
by Tessa Snowdon. |
| 16. |
Douglas Horne
asked “Why is there no movement in the Evelyn Nicholson
Fund.” Cliff Weschenfelder said that mainly it was because no suggestions
have been forthcoming. This led to more discussion and David Siddle said that
he had offered to compile and evaluate and produce a work, possibly entitled
'Ayton in Wartime' or 'From Innocence to Experience' and this would involve expenses.
Could some monies not be used for this? Sue promised that this would be brought
up at the next Executive Meeting as an agenda item. |
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The meeting ended
at 4.30 p.m. with a special vote of thanks by Sue to Tessa and
Samantha for all their hard work towards the success of the weekend.
This
was followed by a welcome cup of tea. |
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Margaret Carnegie
(Wilkinson) 1948-55
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