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OLD MICHAELIAN ASSOCIATION
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on Saturday 27 October 2001
at Le Strange Arms Hotel, Old Hunstanton.
All members of the existing Committee were present except
John Barrett and John Wallington.
1. Apologies: John Dring, Geoff Haysmore, Tom Healey, Bill Kelly, Mukhlis Oweis, John Wallington, John Worboys, Marcus Wortley
2. Minutes of 2000 Annual General Meeting
Robert (Bob) Hill (Chairman) presented the minutes of the 2000 AGM and asked the membership to accept the contents as a true record of proceedings. This was accepted.
3. Matters arising: None.
4. Chairman's Report
Bob reported that two committee meetings had been held during the year which had dealt mainly with membership, subscriptions, the Mitre, finance, and the organisation of the next reunion.
Bob proposed a vote of thanks to all those involved and thanked them for their time and commitment. He said that there would be 53 members for dinner.
5. Treasurer's Report. Statement of accounts attached on page 6
(Not Printed On The Website)
6. Subscriptions: lan recommended that the subscription be increased from £5. 00 for four years to £5. 00 for three years. There was some discussion about longer periods at commensurate cost, also the possibility of life membership, all of which were considered less workable than the present system. In the event the motion as proposed was carried,
lan offered the Building Society book for inspection, and confirmed that the accounts had been officially audited.
7. Membership Secretary's Report.
The Association succeeded in renewing all but 4 of the 2000 subscriptions but note should be given to the fact that there are 38 subscriptions due this year
The success of the Website www.oma.org.uk goes from strength to strength, and we have increased our membership this year by 7 and known OM’s by 13 due in no small part by old pupils surfing the web and finding us. This is most heartening and proves that there are indeed a lot of lost Michaelian’s just waiting to be discovered.
A trial of Mitre by e-mail was undertaken for the Autumn Edition and proved very successful. This will be particularly cost effective to the OMA for overseas Members as the cost of distribution falls to zero. In addition they arrive in the OM’s mailbox in full colour and ready for printing. The take up has been excellent. This .pdf version of the Mitre will in future be made available to all OM’s with e-mail addresses and this version only will be sent to overseas Members (with of course, their permission)
The following Members have moved this year without letting us know their new addresses
Malcolm Gray (Hong Kong) - Rodney Crowfoot
Membership is now as follows
Full Members 154: Honorary Members: 12 Life Members 6
All in all I would say that this has been a successful year for the Old Michaelian Association and I commend this report to the Meeting.
8. Mitre: The meeting had a copy of paragraph 3 of the previous committee meeting held on 8 July 2001 where the committee had agreed that in future the Mitre should not be sent on a regular basis to UK Old Michaelian's after two years of lapsed subscription and not to any immediately "lapsed" overseas members.
9. Election of officers: Bob wished to stand down after 4 years, 3 years as
Chairman, and one year as stand-in for Rachel who had unfortunately had to resign. Following a request for volunteers Mike Catterick was the outright winner, and with the remaining officers opting to continue in their present positions, the meeting agreed. lan as treasurer warned that he would only remain for another year, and Geoff said that he would be prepared to replace him.
10. Election of Committee: Following some deliberation by various members from the floor, Mike Catterick suggested that the committee should be voted "en bloc" and to include Bob Hill and Rachel but delete John Wallington. Committee members are now as follows; -
11. A. O. B.
Peter Yarker proposed a vote of thanks to those who were responsible for
producing the Mitre. Martin confirmed that the Alastair Gulland's generous
donation had paid for the Autumn 2001 edition of the Mitre and this fact had
been highlighted on the contents page of the relevant issue..
Martin said that when paying his subscription lan Barr had also included a donation of £45 which the committee would have to decide its best use.
Pat Frost (Nee Dove) asked if members had heard about the reunion being broadcast on Radio Norfolk. Negative response.
Martin asked if anyone had Rodney Crowfoot's address
John and Pat Dring sent their greetings to the association.
There being no further business the meeting was declared closed.
Old Michaelian’s attending the 2001 Reunion included
Philip Atkinson, Bob Balshaw, David Barry, Mary Bone, Michael Catterick, Mike & Ruth Chilvers, Bill Cullin, Ian Dupont, Pat Frost, Richard George, Chris Gibbs, Rachel Golby, Martin Graville, Ben Gunner, Peter Hartley, John & Barbara Haslett, Peg Hayes-Williams, Bob Hill, Toni Howe, Robin James, Geoff Kimberley, John King, Jeremy Le Poer Power, Margaret Caston, Edward Lee, Ronan Leslie, Jack Owens, Debbie Owens, Ian Pennington, Judith Poison, Simon Pott, Mike Shellock, Mike Smith, Louise Taylor, Roger Wikeley, Reg Wood, Peter Yarker, Peter Thaxter, David Herring.
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