The Secretary will formally document the AGM in due course - and good luck with that Bronte !
I have simply included Kevin's Letter of Thanks to club members following his handover of the Club Captain role to Peter Pring, along with his Captain's Report presented at the AGM.
Letter of Thanks - KC
I did not feel that the AGM last Saturday
night was an appropriate time to make any observations on my term as Captain of
EET or to acknowledge my friends who have been with me all of that time. The nature of our meetings is not conducive
to considered reflection nor would I have expected people to pay too much
attention to my wafflings. We’ve always
been a respectful club with a good heart & soul but never been too
formal. Just how we like it!
Firstly let me say that I understand people
have different views on our club, different reasons for their attachment &
differing levels of commitment. Nonetheless, I am writing this from my
personal viewpoint & I will admit to having a deeper attachment than most.
As a foundation member I was there when we
had some fairly influential golfing identities in charge of proceedings, the
late Billy Sharpe perhaps the most well known to the SAGA hierarchy. We started, therefore, with a bit of “street
cred”. Over the years we have maintained
our reputation as a good, well run & knowledgeable Gr4 club & much of
the credit for that goes to Bronte Milde & Ross Townsend, long term, &
Greg Whicker more recently.
My job was always more internal, hopefully
maintaining a modicum of order on event days & perhaps saving my most sleepless
night for the Saturday prior to Ashbourne.
I doubt that many of our guests notice the controlled chaos of that day
&, if they don’t, then your committee has done its job. I would mention here that we always have a
procession of helpers with the BBQ & cleaning up so as a true club we have
always worked well together.
I wasn’t contemplating a move out of the
captaincy before last weekend but when Pete was nominated & agreed to stand
I was comfortable with stepping down. Pete
has been VC for a few years now & has really been doing a lot of the things
I used to do & probably doing it all a lot better. Our club has never had a ballot & it’s
not a thing I would have liked to see in such a convivial club as ours. That is not to say that I am not sad at the
prospect of letting go of “my club”. I
don’t mean that in any selfish way it’s just that, after being there at the
start, watching it survive when we thought it may have withered by now &
playing a part in keeping it together for so long, I now find myself a little
lost in the background. It will be hard
not to grab the cards & read out the winners (with suitable praise or put
downs) or shout down the boisterous on far too many occasions. It is all part of the stuff I love about EET.
As a non-worker, my circle of friends &
activities has diminished & friends of the kind I have made through EET
become more important. To that end I
would like to say to all of you it has been a privilege to be your Captain
& an incredibly rewarding time.
It is also here that I would like to
especially thank Bonzo & Ross, in particular. Bonzo & I have been at the centre of many
weird & wacky events, both through work & play, all aimed at making
life a little more fun for our friends & workmates. EET has been our longest running effort. Most certainly he has been the more sensible
& structured of the 2 of us in this endeavour & I thank him sincerely
for his friendship & guidance (even “the stare”). Ross joined Bonzo & I on our first
overseas golf trip in 1993 without really knowing either of us from a bar of
soap. He was instantly a best friend
& again, has done a great job in keeping EET financially responsible &
a good little club in the eyes of our members &, importantly, the
SAGA.
That’s it.
All done. All off my chest. Cheers. KC
Club Captain's Report: 2013/2014
This past season saw a number of new
members start & a few others increase their attendance either on Sundays or
at our retirees Wednesday games. George
Cleland, Stephen Gordge , Brian Beggs, Ross Higgins, Steve White, Bob Batty &
the awkwardly tall Crathern come to mind.
Bronte Milde is in the process of surrendering his perpetual Singles
crown. Something about trees &
Dunsinane Castle I think he said. The draw is well advanced & should have a
new champ by February, I suspect.
Our trip to the South East was a success
& we probably found the course at Kingston to be a much better layout than
anticipated. Need to thank the Forgans
for organizing some of the accommodation & entertainment. It also marked the first time I’ve lost my
pants to a young male in a carpark (or anywhere else for that matter). Both Fr. Fleming & Malcolm Fraser have
sent their congratulations.
Ashbourne was another successful day &
this year looks similarly well blessed with numbers. It gets a bit harder each
year given that our fee for the day has gone up only slightly whilst costs are
always on the up. Still, 60 players is about our break even point & we get
there most years.
Dave Bartlett’s club T-shirts have proven
popular although we’ve now run out of Mediums & Large. Probably a reflection on the wise health
choices & general conditioning of the club, as a whole. Bronte is hoping they shrink in the wash but
I haven’t evidenced that as yet.
Points for consideration this next
year.
- Given that we have more retired or semi retired individuals do we look at going to any of the country events we’ve been invited to in the past or have attended in years gone by eg Loxton Gr 4 ?
- Is there a club interest in doing Tassie as our golf trip?
- Do our members want us to look even further afield eg Vietnam. ?
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