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OLD CLAYESMORIAN SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DINNER HELD AT SIMPSON'S -IN-THE-STRAND W.C.2.on Saturday 31st January 1998.
The A.G.M. was held as ever in the downstairs Bar. Everyone meeting, greeting and buying drinks. Amid all this, your committee made themselves heard and got through the business of the evening as they always do. there is a full report of the AGM in this Newsletter.
THE DINNER
"Gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here" etc. etc. There were only fifty-one of us, but it was a fun event. You who wavered and stayed at home wavered wrong! Get it right next time.
We broke new ground by inviting wives and partners for the first time in our hundred odd years and here again, very few ladies dipped their toes. The five or six who did, provided visions of loveliness and an altogether civilising influence. Guys, you missed out , and Dolls/Ladies, you would have enjoyed yourselves more than you would have guessed! Come to that, I couldn't get Mrs Hon. Sec. to go this time. Shall lean during this year.
Reverting to the numbers, the 1999 and Millennium Dinners could pack them in so order your companions and tickets as soon as they hit your mat; stand by in early December.
The Speakers did a good job and neatly withal. Gordon Chubb(42-46) for The School, Headmaster, David Beeby replied. Hamish Dow(73-78) for the Society and Hon Sec. in reply reading best wishes from the Society of Dorset Men, typed in dialect. Being 68 and born in the Blackmore Vale, he was able to reply like for like and threw out a few "Voosers to purdle in the Drong". Keeping "Yangle-sputs" and a few more in reserve in case he has to do it again next year.
One more toast but no speech, the Founder's by our President, David Anderson(41-45). One word: "Lex". Our toast and speeches done, a matter of, raising money rounded off he evening. The Headmaster announced that the girls were sending a net ball team to Malta during the Easter holidays and as cricketers were getting a sub, how about the girls? A cartoon by Tony Hart, (41-43) was auctioned for £245 and another hero started a wine auction with a couple of bottles which ended up as ten and made a decent price to be added to the pot. Daniel Rimmer moved among us in a final trawl for cash. If the duty of the Society is the school's best interests then "this happy band of brothers" has a block booking for heaven. If that's a side-effect of claret, then what a way to go!
That left the survivors downstairs in the Bar saying whatever one says let out on parole. Your scribe had a train to catch so didn't stay to see the last stalwart pitched out onto the pavement but is willing to bet on the identity of "Ancient Pistol". Join us next year and bring a partner.