Page 1 Congratulations To Jersey 1 Meet Dai the Dragon 1 Editorial - My Family Album 2 41 Club France 2 Photographic Competition 2012 2 Your National President 2012-13 3 2012 Annual General Meeting 4 Competition Results 4 Jersey 2012 5 Club News 6 Postbox 7 The Back Page 8 Number 30 May, 2012 News@41Club.Org The Monthly Newsletter of the Association Of Ex-Round Tablers’ Great Britain and Ireland Contents Contributions to [email protected]Please send contributions to [email protected]The copy date for the June issue is Sunday 27th May. editor: Ray Hill national Communications officer A member of the Round Table Family of Clubs Congratulations To Jersey - For A Great Conference The last week in April 2012 will be remembered for two things: the floods in the UK and the great 41 Club Conference in Jersey. With almost 600 delegates registered the Conference continued the trend of increasing numbers year upon year. Despite the problems with the ferries due to the weather, all who attended hailed it as a great success. Our thanks to chairman Paul Harding and his team for a splendid weekend and to Dick Stanley for an excellent job as the National Conference Officer. Meet Dai The Dragon .... Your Host For The 41 Club & Tangent National Conference 2013 Visit his website at www.41clubconference.co.uk/ Click here to follow his exploits on Facebook View ‘Dai - The Movie’ here Dai is working hard to provide a Warm Welsh Welcome to all his friends. Booking is now open.
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Congratulations To Jersey 1Meet Dai the Dragon 1Editorial - My Family Album 241 Club France 2Photographic Competition 2012 2Your National President 2012-13 3
2012 Annual General Meeting 4Competition Results 4Jersey 2012 5 Club News 6Postbox 7The Back Page 8
The Monthly Newsletter of the Association Of Ex-Round Tablers’ Great Britain and Ireland
Contents Contributions to [email protected] send contributions to [email protected] copy date for the June issue is Sunday 27th May.editor: Ray Hillnational Communications officer
A member of the Round Table Family of Clubs
Congratulations To Jersey - For A Great Conference
The last week in April 2012 will be remembered for two things: the floods in the UK and the great 41 Club Conference in Jersey. With almost 600 delegates registered the Conference continued the trend of increasing numbers year upon year. Despite the problems with the ferries due to the weather, all who attended hailed it as a great success.
Our thanks to chairman Paul Harding and his team for a splendid weekend and to Dick Stanley for an excellent job as the National Conference Officer.
Meet Dai The Dragon .... Your Host For The 41 Club & Tangent National Conference 2013Visit his website at www.41clubconference.co.uk/
Click here to follow his exploits on Facebook View ‘Dai - The Movie’ here
Dai is working hard to provide a Warm Welsh Welcome to all his friends. Booking is now open.
It is not often that I show my family photographs to others but in the last couple of weeks two events have happened that make me very proud.
Firstly on the 30th March my younger son Tim was inducted into Leicester DeMontfort 500 Round Table. Tim has known the Round Table Family all of his life, and has very fond memories of area weekends, the children’s Christmas parties and many other
social and fund-raising events. Now with a family of his own he visited us last November and attended our Table bonfire. The family enjoyed it so much that he enquired about a Table in the Leicester area and the photo shows him being inducted by Area 14 Chairman John Manley.
But it does not end there as on the next day National President Vicky re-affiliated Northwich 534 Ladies
Circle, and my daughter Georgina was inducted into the newly resurrected club.
The photograph shows four of the girls receiving their badges from President Vicky during the North West and Ireland Regional Lunch.
Georgina has already learnt not to miss the meeting where the jobs were allocated as she is now the secretary.
Two new members of the Round Table Family from my family in just two days, plus a revived Circle with lots of potential.
How many other 41 Club members have children or grandchildren who are a potential pool of Tablers and Circlers?
All is not lost and we must do as much as we can to support the clubs that are the source of our future.
Congratulations to Tim and Georgina ..... we are very proud of you.
41 Club FranceAt the recent 41 Club International
AGM in India the French representatives announced their intention to resign from the International Group. Their reason was their desire to allow non ex-Tablers to hold office at International level.
This action is to be ratified at their AGM in June.
In the interim 41 Cub India national President Dr. V. Siddharthan will act as secretary to the International President.
The French further announced that they have acquired the rights to
the Club 41 International name and international logo, and that they would be forming a new Club 41 International with other clubs and countries that share their values.Dave CampbellInternational officer
Photographic Competition 2012
First PrizeWreck, Weld Beach
David Brown, Taunton 41 Club
SecondScrabo Tower, Newtownards
Brian Grahame, Newtownards 41 Club
There were 41 entries for the first annual photographic competition and all were displayed at the Jersey Conference. All delegates were invited to vote for their favourite and the final result was very close.
A selection of entries will be used to produce a 41 Club calendar for 2013, which will be on sale from July. Any profits from the sale of the calendar will be donated to the Prostate Cancer Charity, our President’s charity for this year.
In the Summer edition of the Links magazine we launched a new Platinum Privilege offering discounts for both clubs and individual members at the whole range of Barcelo hotels. The take up has been high , several clubs have booked their Ladies Nights at the hotels and many members have made considerable
savings on bookings. However we have spotted that the phone number given in the magazine is incorrect. The correct number for the offer is 01455 898465.
Little did I imagine some 42 years ago when I was inducted into Round Table that I’d be invested as your President. Little did I imagine 34 years ago when as Round Table Chairman I presented our inaugural 41 Club with its Chairman’s Chain of Office that I’d be presented with the magnificent Presidential Jewel previously worn by so many giants of our Association. And little did I imagine 25 years ago when I “Bridged the Gap” into 41 Club and was presented with my new lapel badge that I would be presented with the ultimate accolade of being your President.
I feel very humble and very concerned that I should not let you down. You have given me the honour of being your President for the forthcoming year and I assure you that I will devote all my time and efforts to this wonderful Club of ours.
My objectives this year are to continue the good work of recent Councils, to strive to increase the number of 40 year old Tablers joining us, to improve our image and involvement in the community, to continue to foster our links with 41 International, to support the other members of the Round Table Family and where appropriate, to learn from them, to offer help and guidance to any clubs or members seeking them, to live up to the ideals of our Aims and Objectives but above all, to have fun and make friends along the way so that at the end of the year we can all validly use that wonderful motto of Old Tablers Sweden – “Still Tabling”.
May I thank the Jersey Conference Committee for laying on such a marvellous conference. The Jersey
Club arranges a slick and enjoyable conference for the Association every ten years but this year I believe they have raised the bar by several notches. I’m sure everyone who attended had a superb time – I know the 14 members of my own club and their wives and partners who came to support me were bowled over by the sheer magnificence of the event – so much so that most of them have already booked for Llandudno next year. Thanks must also go to the Hotel de France for the high standard of accommodation, faultless administration and wonderful cuisine.
On behalf of all 41ers may I thank Immediate Past President Vaughan for the magnificent manner in which he presided over the fortunes of our Association during the past year. His chairmanship of meetings was quiet but forceful and his wise counsel was gratefully received by us all. He seems to have the knack of identifying problems before we knew they were there and dealing with them efficiently. He was a wonderful ambassador for this Association having travelled the length and breadth of GB & I to 41 Club events covering over 36,000 miles in the process. He showed a keen interest in our international obligations – in April flying all the way to Chennai, India for two or three days to represent our members at the 41 International AGM. Vaughan is only the second member to have been President of both Round Table and 41 Club, a magnificent achievement. In short, Vaughan has been a superb President who has fulfilled his duties with fun
and friendliness and I look forward to receiving his support during the year ahead.
May I welcome the members of our new Board – as our Executive is now named. We have several returning members and a few new ones and we all share one ambition – to pull together as a team and to do our best for the Association.
It is a source of great regret to me that there are so many vacancies on the National Council. I struggle to understand why – when I know what fun, fellowship and happiness I have been fortunate to experience during my eight years or so on Council. It is a hackneyed phrase and is not intended to sound elitist – but being a member of the Council is like being a member of another Club – one whose members share your views, concerns and love of the 41 Club concept. If any 41er in an unrepresented region is willing to consider putting his name forward as its councillor or requires further information he should contact the National Secretary.
35 years ago my father died of prostate cancer. I learned of his illness from his consultant about four years beforehand and that there would be no escape from it. At the time I’d never heard of the illness and he and I never discussed it. Instead, I watched him slowly die by stages so that when the end came there was little of his body which was not affected. Today, we are more aware of this terrible illness and that it is the second biggest killer of men in this country. When the time came a few months ago to choose a Presidential Charity for the year I had no hesitation in selecting The Prostate Cancer Charity – not only for raising vital funds for such a worthy cause but also for spreading the word among our members and persuading them to get themselves checked out. If at the end of the year the illness has been caught and successfully dealt with in just one 41er, I shall feel we’ve succeeded.
I’m looking forward to getting around and about during the year ahead and meeting as many members and clubs as possible. If you have a function or event you’d like me to attend please get in touch – if the date’s free I’ll do my best to get to you.
The 67th Annual General meeting of the Association took place on Saturday 28th April 2012 in the Hotel-de-France, St Hellier, Jersey.
The following Resolutions were debated.
RESOLUTION 1 Change of name of National Executive to National Board CARRIED
RESOLUTION 2 Change of name of National Membership & Extension Officer to National Membership & Round Table Liaison Officer CARRIIED
RESOLUTION 3 Introduction as members of partners of Tangent & LC LOST
RESOLUTION 4 New rule on disaffiliation CARRIED
RESOLUTION 5 Restructure of National Board CARRIED
RESOLUTION 6 Change of tenure for Officers CARRIED
RESOLUTION 7 Change of dates for National Board Meetings CARRIED
RESOLUTION 8 Abolition of Proxy Voting LOST
The following were elected for Office:
National President David Smith Long Eaton National Vice-President Martin Green Abingdon & District National Secretary Manny Martins Kingston National Treasurer Mark Fairchild Exeter National Fellowship Officer Barry Durman Shirley Late Knights National Councillors’ Liaison Officer Terry Cooper Clevedon
Jim Smith (Membership), Dave Campbell (International) and Ray Hill (Communications) remain in post. Vaughan Harris becomes Immediate Past National President.
The Presidential Charity for 2012-2013 is Prostate Cancer.
Martin Green
2012 Annual General Meeting
International Awardsthe tom Hodge / Victor Michitisch Biplane for outstanding international contribution: Engelbert Friedsam (IRO Old Tablers Deutschland.)
the Jim Parkes trophy for UK members participating overseas was presented to Frank Venables (Isis, Faringdon and Mumbles).
Golf CompetitionMen (Ken Reed trophy): Bob Marshall (Jersey)
Ladies: Sylvia Pagliaro (Fareham)
team: Drew Cochran, Geoff Morgan & Ron Ponsford
Press Awardsnewsletter: Ringwood & District 41 Club, The Yorkshire Host edited by John Warne
Web-site: Farnham 41 Club,
webmaster Mike Ellis, www.farnham41club.org.uk,
AGM Awardsthe Kiwi Club for the club with the best attendence taking into account the distance travelled and the percentage of members present at Conference was awarded to Lancaster.
the Ian Kelso trophy for the most amusing speaker at the AGM was awarded to David Weaver of the White Knights for his tales of Bonking Bill from Barnsley.
Club Service AwardThis very special award was made to Faringdon for their for their continued support for the local community and for organising the local bonfire night.
A similar award had also been made to Cleeve Hill 41 Club for organising the annual Swimarathon which has raised over £375,000 since it began.
Annual Competitions41 Club Photographic Competition
A new event for 2012 was the introduction of the photographic competition, for which there were 41 entries. The standard was very high and all delegates were invited to vote for their favourite. The competition was very close and the winner was only settled on the morning of the AGM. Congratulations to David Brown of Taunton 41 Club for being the first winner.
tangent Minifiction Competition
Tangent too had its own competition, a short story in 36 words ending in ‘friendship never ends’. Again all delegates were invited to vote and the winner was Judi Steen of the Angels of the North Tangent club.
Members of the Association of Ex Tablers or 41 Club members in Mid Wales held their annual Cluster Meeting at the Lakeside Golf Club near Welshpool. The event attracted former Round Table representatives from as far a field as Oswestry to Llandrindod Wells, which hosted this year’s dinner event. They were joined by the National President Vaughan Harris for the evening. Pictured above are some of the club representatives present with the National President., including Alan Prior, Llandrindod, Phil Davies, Newtown, David Parry Jones, Oswestry, Phil Treherne, Montgomery, Gordon Jones Llanfyllyn, Ernie Husson Past National President, John Markwick, Welshpool, Roger Watson of Rhayader guest speaker, and Lawrence Bamber Regional Councillor.ernie Husson, Llandrindod 41 Club
(Photograph by Marina Gallery, Llandrindod Wells)
Mid-Wales ClusterWorthing Round Table 41 Club finally came into existence at the back end of last year and was affiliated in February. For some time we had been thinking of leaving Round Table as two thirds of our thirteen members were over 45 and we hadn’t had a new member for over seven years.We still run regular two weekly meetings where we get close to 100% attendance. Our programme includes sporting evenings, mystery trips both home and abroad, a monthly dinner meeting, a valentine’s ladies night, an annual canal trip and various fund raising events.Ironically, one week before our launch, a new potential member appeared. He was inducted into Table and is now a fully fledged 41 Club member,Ex Tablers have also shown renewed interest and we are now 15 soon to be 17!We love to join up with other clubs, either for a competitive challenge or a social night, so if there are clubs that would like a joint evening please just give us a call.Paul Rawlinson, Worthing Round table 41 Club
Welcome To Worthing!
Mumbles 25th CharterMumbles 41 Club recently celebrated their 25th charter. The ladies of tangent took the opportunity to present a special cake to commemorate the occasion, and chairman John Knott is photographed below making the first cut.David Atkinson, Mumbles 41 Club
Round Table And 41 Club Fellowship In LeicesterTheir own Table may have closed but the members of
Leicester St Martins took the opportunity at a recent charter dinner to present Simon Riley, the chairman of Leicester DeMontfort 500 Round Table with a cheque for £750, for the Rainbow Hospice.
The Rainbow is a children’s hospice and Leicester DeMontfort dedicated themselves last year to raise the money to pay for a dedicated respiratory nurse for the hospice for 12 months. Their main fund raising effort was a kayak expedition of 147 miles along the Thames earlier in the year. (See www.demontfort500.org.uk/ for details) and with the help of this cheques they have raised nearly £14,000 for this very worthwhile hospice.
The generosity of Leicester St Martins has demonstrated that charitable acts do not have to end just because your own Table has closed. Congratulations to all concerned.
of the team of four which Round Table Trowbridge 591 sent with a caravan to Skopje made me realise that this glorious phase of Table history is in danger of fading into history. Totally forgotten.
I notice that whenever our old Tablers get together sooner or later the subject of Skopje comes up and none of us agree on the details of what happened. The younger mob have never heard of Skopje at all.
All over the country there must be
Tablers with stories of what happened on the Great Adventure and if anyone would like to contact me. e-mail or snail mail I thought I might try and collect these yarns.(Don’t ring. You all speak much too quietly these days and I can`t understand you). With what object I have no idea at this point. Maybe an article???? who knows?.
Are there any official figures? How many caravans went in total? I know that the Government tried to welsh on the agreement to pay for the transport across the Channel. Any details anyone?
Write soon. You won`t be here much longer. Pat Ladd,trowbridge 41 Club
Linlithgow and District 41 Club’s monthly meeting was a visit to the Glenmorangie Bottling Plant in Livingston. The visit consisted of a tour of the plant, from the bulk loading area, through the bottling halls including the main control room and into the
finished product storage area before finally reaching the presentation room where both Ardbeg and Glenmorangie whiskies in various expressions were sampled. The evening was rounded off with an Indian meal back in Linlithgow.
Photograph 1 = A group photograph
of 41 Club members and hosts in the main reception area.
Photograph 2 = 41 Club members, togged in safety gear on the bridge in the main bottling hall.
George Wilson, Linlithgow 41 Club
A Visit To Glenmorangie
In 2010 Ebor 41 Club rode bicycles from Lands End to John O’Groats and raised over £23,000 for York Against Cancer.
To celebrate York Against Cancer’s 25th anniversary they will, in a few weeks time be doing it again, but this time it is the reverse down-hill journey, from John O’Groats to Lands End.
Starting on the 2nd June and finishing on the 15th June. A distance of over 1000 miles.
This year they hope to raise in excess of £25,000 for York Against Cancer.
They have eight riders, five (six if you include the support driver) are 41 Club members. As well as giving up two weeks of their time they also cover
all of their own costs including those of the support team, approximately £1,500 each.
You can follow their fund raising efforts by visiting:
www.justgiving.com/teams/41club
David Mooney, ebor 41 Club
Ebor 41 Club - Do It Again - In Reverse
The picture on the right shows one of Nerja 41 Club’s members Martin Sexton receiving a very rare award for outstanding work for the Club from the National President Vaughan Harris. The other shows retiring Chairman Alfie Fornear handing over to the new Chairman Ian Pett. Our club has grown by well over 60% due to an advertising campaign over the last year.Alfie Fornear, nerja 41 Club
And Finally ....You Think That Times Now Are TOUGH
Extra Grumpy Ex-tablers ...... Plan Ahead‘Good old National!’‘What have they done this time? More cosmetic surgery – “Regions” to become “Zones” with names based on an
anagram of the post codes they cover?’‘Worse than that.’‘What, title of “President” to become “Brown Owl” and Club Chairman to be addressed as “Arkala” so cubs and scouts
are more inclined to become 41ers in later years.”‘Worse than that. You remember how there was a chance to elect our own members rather than rely on Tables’ shrinking
ability to recruit on our behalf?’‘Yes but wasn’t that pitched to coincide with Harry Patch Syndrome, as the last of the World War One veterans made
their final appearance? Whereby each of us could see ourselves as the last man standing - or rather being wheeled about, encrusted in medals, by a pretty girl in nurse’s uniform.’
‘Of course, by then, given National’s inclination to up the spending and divide the cost over a shrinking membership, that man’s capitation fee would be about a million pounds a year but an organization who’s raison d’etre is to give the answer “41” to the question “what comes after 45?” can’t be expected to do sums like that.’
‘So now what?’‘So, now, instead of having our destiny in our own hands or the slippery mitts of an organization in decline, National
have come up with our new saviour – the women!’‘What!’‘Yes, we’re going to swell our ranks with the partners of Circle and Tangent.’‘But wouldn’t they have been Tablers anyway?’‘Once upon a time but then, because Table failed to recruit members for them too, they opened the doors to any women.
Then, overnight, the timid young lasses, married to fresh-faced Tablers, who could be bossed about by the hat brigade whose older husbands had been pensioned off to 41, were supplemented by Ms Career-Bitch to whom stilettos weren’t for showing off calf-muscles but for slipping between the ribs of glass ceiling fitters. Then Tangent followed suit and now we’re to accommodate all their toy-boys and trophy-mentotty.’
‘Dear oh dear.’‘It gets worse. Tangent have two rules on membership; Rule One to admit ladies and Rule Two which admits anyone
excluded by Rule One. They could have fellows joining and what sort of bloke would be likely to want to join a sort of WI for failed jam-makers? Then, their male partners, and you know the way the world’s going, could take over 41.’
‘We could stand firm.’‘No we couldn’t. Any lawyer worth his or her salt could have the European Court of Human Rights force ‘em on us.’‘Yeah, but who’d bother to pay lawyers their fat fees just to gain admittance to a club whose own members are too
apathetic to bother with?’‘I suppose you’re right. So it’s being totally useless and inept that’s sparing us from our own fiasco, then?’‘Yes it’s the same principle as the laws on bigamy – there to save us from ourselves.’‘Good old National’
Reg HewittLlantwit Major 41 Club
Think of the poor golfers at Richmond Golf Club during the Second World War. Even the Luftwaffe could not stop those hardy individuals from enjoying their round of golf. But golf is golf and all rules must be obeyed so they added some extra ones just to make sure.
Imagine being the secretary that has to propose these new rules to the AGM!
