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| | Manly Probus Club Inc
Manly Probus Club
has been established over 30 years and is a mixed gender Probus club. Expressions of interest in joining Probus
may be conveyed to
us by post, email or telephone.
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Fellowship, Fun
and Fantastic Location |
Paul
Shea |
PRESIDENT'S
REPORT 2009/2010
It
is my very great pleasure to provide an overview report on the 29th
year of the Manly Probus Club Inc. Your club provided a very full program
of excellent activities throughout the year. These activities include golf
and bowls events, two away trips, three day outings, a trip to the ABC's
Q&A TV program, monthly social walks and a regular monthly program of
excellent guest speakers. We had a full range of social activities
including the President's and Xmas luncheons, Bayview Golf Club lunch,
BBQs at beautiful Clontarf and post meeting informal bistro lunches with
regular attendances over 50 people. I would like to thank the management
and staff of the Balgowlah RSL Club for their assistance. We supported all
this activity with a strong member communications program including
monthly newsletters, our web site, a combined club debate and open forum
in October and regular welfare reports about members on the sick list.
Special thanks to Hugh Massey for his dedication to this latter task.
Thanks to Neville Bull and Kevin Long, we were pleased to be able to
assist with improvements to the reliability of the auditorium sound system
at BRSLC.
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Our
membership number was largely unchanged throughout the year at around 80
members. We were saddened by the passing of Jim Kannane, Max Nauthe, Ken
Hebblewhite, Keith Phillips, Bert de Mars and Bill Hotchkiss. We welcomed
new members Leigh Haines, John Ross, Jim Fry, George Paul and John Oakes.
Twenty year membership certificates were awarded to Geoffrey Falkenmire,
and Ross McCowan. Our highly regarded Hon Treasurer John Lush was awarded
Life Membership. The seminal achievement of the year was addressing the
problem of the low level of new membership applications which culminated
in a proposal to be voted on at the 2010 AGM to change the status of the
club from a male only club to a combined gender club. The assistance of
Probus Centre and District Chairman Gary Blackler in this process is
gratefully acknowledged.
All
your committee members offered themselves for re-election unopposed and
are duly elected for 2010/11. The club is indeed fortunate to have such
talented and committed people running its affairs. Special thanks to David
Beard past President and Secretary. I wish new President Doug Stockwell
all the best for the coming year and would like to thank the membership
for the privilege of acting as your President in 2009/2010.
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