Say Cheese! AGM & Awards
5 October 2015
Tonight over one hundred members of the choir attended our Annual
General Meeting with the presentation of the Member's Award.
This year's Annual General Meeting was tinged with sadness,
following the untimely passing of two of our long-serving members:
Mary Legge, who also served on the committee for many years, and
Anne Robson, who died in post as our Treasurer. We are most grateful
to former Treasurer Martin Lander, for stepping into the very
difficult position of reconstructing the accounts from Anne's
careful records, and enabling accounts to be put before the
membership at the AGM.
Mary Montague
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Members of the new Committee
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At the AGM the committee for the 2015/16 season was appointed,
and retiring committee members thanked for their service, and
reports were made by the Chairman, Treasurer, and Musical Director.
Discussion took place in the Member's Forum about such diverse
topics as the potential for joint concerts outside the Town, and
adjusting the rehearsal times, and the Musical Director outlined his
proposals for a new system of auditions for new members, and
appraisals for current members.
Jane Oliver
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Mary's Market Shot
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Thanks were offered to Jane Oliver who has for the last
twenty-six years been the Voice Part Representative for the alto
section (amongst many other things, the VPR keeps the "register" for
both rehearsals and concerts, to ensure we know that everyone has
attended sufficient rehearsals, and that we have the right number of
chairs on stage for concerts!). We also presented the Member's Award
to Mary Montague for her sterling work providing photographic
support for all our events, and for creating our large portfolio of
"local" images (see Mary's Market Shot for an example!) - a
staggering number of hours over the last year, to ensure that we
have an eye-catching website,
Facebook page,
Twitter
feed, and that we have interesting images for our news articles in
the local press. Thanks were offered to her Husband, Peter, for his
support in this work, and indeed to Ajit Negandhi who works
alongside Mary (and indeed photographed the AGM, so that Mary could
be - reluctantly! - photographed herself).
After the AGM we had a splendid spread of cheese and wine, so that
our remaining 45 minutes of rehearsals were well-oiled and
light-hearted!!!
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