Dear
Member,
I hope your photography is going well with the lovely spell of hot
weather we are having, even though it did arrive a little late.
I
would like to start these Chattering's with yet again, another appeal
for a member to take on the position of Club Secretary, as to date, my
appeal in the emergency Newsletter has not raised any response, I
suppose the club could soldier on for a short time without a Secretary,
but then we will reach crisis point. SO, PLEASE, PLEASE do give this
very important matter some consideration, I do not know of any other
club that runs without a Secretary do you? now on to the main news about
the AGM.
I
would like to take this opportunity and thank all the members that did
make it to Repton, in fact 40 members turned up, and this was great
considering that in the evening before it was snowing quite hard, but
the day itself turned out to be a lovely spring day with sunshine,
members started arriving about 10.15 and were welcomed with tea and
coffee, it was good to see old friends, and also I was able to put faces
to names.
Before
the meeting started, John Podmore from
area 9, gave us a conducted tour of the very old library, which Repton
has and I think many members found this very enjoyable.
The
Club business part of the day gave us some very unexpected items to deal
with, as you now know from the recent emergency news sheet, we were all
very sorry to hear that both Ron Croad, and Colin Powell, have made the
decision to stand down from their posts, and for the same reasons, ie.
as they have both given many years of loyal service to the club, and now
as they are getting on in years, and with the club workload being as it
is now, they thought that their work should be handed on to the
shoulders of younger members of the club. Of course I was very saddened
by their decisions, but I do respect them, I am also sure you will agree
that they will both be a hard act's to follow, but it is also nice to
know that they will will be a still be available in the wings to offer
any help to the people who take over from them.
After
hearing the news, I made an tentative appeal at the meeting, but nothing
was forth coming, but I have since had a kind offer from both Kevin and
Sandra Craske. Kevin has
agreed to take over the chemical sales, and Sandra has offered to take
up the Treasures position, and we hope to make this change over at the
next committee meeting in the Autumn, so as from now, the position is,
that if you wish to order Chemicals please send your order to Mr. Kevin
Craske, 17, Providence Place, Briston, Melton Constable, Norfolk. NR24
2HX Tel: 01263 860602. but also please note that if you require film
this still has to be ordered from Ron Croad, "Leys End" 32,
Brownlow Lane, Cheddington, Leighton Buzzard, Beds, LU7 OSS. Tel. 01296
661102.
During
the lunch break, we had the pleasure of some very nice colour prints to
look at processed and arranged by Rita Pearle, aided by son John, and
there was also some very nice mono prints from Ken Smith and Dave
Morrell from area 4, it is gratifying to know that we have some great
talent within the CRC, but it is such as shame that we seem to under
estimate our selves, I think some of these prints would have walked away
with many photo club competition trophy's, the afternoon then progressed
well with some very good AV's from John Salter area 3, Brian Asquith and
John Batty area 11, after these we had the Slide-of-the-Year competition
judged by all the members attending, there were some super slides, and I
think with the quality
being so high, it made choosing very difficult, but in the end we found
our for this year was John Batty from area 11, with a smashing slide of
a Canadian Red Squirrel, Congratulations and very well done John?
We
then followed on with a look at the Folio-Slide-of-the-Year entries, and
these really were terrific, but being of such a high standard we were
not able to give them enough justification time to make it a
competition, so I decided to postpone this competition until either
theDidcot meeting in October, or next years AGM when we would be able to
devote more time to them, another idea which I would like to try next
year is a, 10-for-10 show, , and this is to show a maximum of 10 slides
on any subject or theme, with a little backing talk for 10 minutes, it
could be along any lines, say a holiday, or a hobby, and this I hope
would make a show more interesting and it would not be as hard to
arrange as a full show etc. again on next years AGM, and Repton being an
excellent venue, and also with some requests from members who attended
this year, I have pre-booked Repton for next year, it will also be be
around Easter time, as to secure it we have to fall in line with the
school holidays.
Alas!
time got the better of us and the meeting finished at around 6pm, every
member I spoke to said that they enjoyed themselves and were now looking
forward to next year, I agree whole heartedly with them and I hope you
will be there also. More next time,
Best Regards.
Pete.