{"id":615,"date":"2009-05-20T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/club-agm\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:09:00","slug":"club-agm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/club-agm\/","title":{"rendered":"Club AGM"},"content":{"rendered":"Minutes of the AGM and Committee Meeting of the Royal High School Club in London held on 12.05.09 at the Caledonian Club.<br \/><br \/>Attendees:<br \/>Simon Card OBE \u2013 Committee member<br \/>Susan Geary \u2013 Committee member<br \/>Chris Pountain &#8211; Treasurer<br \/>Alex Prentice &#8211; Secretary<br \/>Jim Randell &#8211; Archivist<br \/>Jim Rowan \u2013 Club member<br \/>Al Senter &#8211; President<br \/>Eddie Tait \u2013 Scots in London contact<br \/><br \/>Apologies received from:<br \/>Will Dunnett \u2013 Webmaster<br \/>Don Leslie<br \/>Alistair Maclean<br \/>Valerie Peay \u2013 Committee member<br \/>Mel Rankine<br \/>Lindsay Taylor<br \/>Colin Todd<br \/>Walter Wood<br \/><br \/>Minutes of the AGM. <br \/><br \/>\uf0b7 Alex welcomed eight attendees to the AGM and listed the apologies.<br \/>\uf0b7 Tributes were paid to RHS FPs Pringle Fisher and Shaw Statham who, sadly, died in recent months.<br \/>\uf0b7 Al presented his Annual President\u2019s Report and thanked the Committee for its support over the last year.  Al informed the AGM that George Smuga has resigned as Rector and the post will be advertised.  A new Rector should be in place in August for the start of the autumn term. <br \/>\uf0b7 Chris presented his Treasurer\u2019s report, which showed that the financial position of the Club remains satisfactory.  As at 19.04.09 the Club had \u00a31760.32 in the bank plus \u00a3853.33 in the National Savings Account.<br \/>\uf0b7 The following have agreed to serve as Committee members (11 in total): <br \/>Simon Card OBE \u2013 Committee member<br \/>Will Dunnett \u2013 Webmaster<br \/>Susan Geary \u2013 Committee member<br \/>Claire Laidlaw \u2013 Committee member<br \/>Chris Pountain \u2013 Treasurer<br \/>Valerie Peay \u2013 Committee member<br \/>Alex Prentice &#8211; Secretary<br \/>Jim Randell \u2013 Archivist<br \/>Janette Scantlebury \u2013 Committee member<br \/>Al Senter &#8211; President<br \/>Eddie Tait \u2013 Scots in London contact<br \/><br \/>Actions from the AGM<br \/>\uf0b7 Alex will write to the small number of RHS FPs who have attended London Club events, but who have not yet formally joined the Club, to encourage them set up an annual subscription standing order for \u00a315.  We also have a few new RHS FP contacts in London who will be encouraged to join and pay the subscription. Al agreed to contact the non-payers to encourage them to set up a standing order.<br \/>\uf0b7 The school prize-giving is planned for Thursday the 2nd of July at 10:00 am and, unfortunately, Al Senter cannot attend.  If any of the committee would like to attend the school prize-giving as a platform guest please contact Alex Prentice.  Alex will also contact Ian Gill who has represented the London Club in the past to see if he is available.<br \/>\uf0b7 Al Senter kindly agreed to continue as President until the AGM in May 2010 but we also agreed that a successor for Al needs to identified in 2009 in order for a smooth handover to take place.  Simon agreed to sound out a possible candidate.<br \/><br \/>Minutes of the Committee Meeting (chaired by Al Senter).<br \/><br \/>Review of actions from the last committee meeting on 13.01.09.<br \/>\uf0b7 We discussed the committee\u2019s ideas for implementation of a new RHSCL Prize (if agreed) in 2010. We decided to follow up on this proposal with the new Rector once he\/she has been appointed and, for this school year, we will continue with the three school prizes that the RHSCL currently funds.  Simon has already emailed David Simpson to tell him about our decision.<br \/><br \/>Feedback from the Annual Dinner 2009.<br \/>\uf0b7 Feedback from the attendees at the Annual Dinner on 20th March was very positive and the quality of the food and service at the VSC was excellent.  We will consider a return to the VSC for the Annual Dinner in 2010 if we can come up with a proposal which costs in.  Al will try to find a suitable date at the end of March 2010 and we can then have detailed discussions with the VSC.<br \/><br \/>Forthcoming Club Events.<br \/>We discussed forthcoming events and the following points were agreed:<br \/>\uf0b7 The Annual Drinks Party will be held at the Fleming Gallery on Monday the 9th of November 2009.  Al is working on the format of the event and the cost-per-head is likely to rise slightly.  The committee agreed that we should hire musicians again, if they cost in, because this creates a very sociable, party atmosphere.<br \/><br \/>Recruitment of new members.<br \/>\uf0b7 There has been a steady trickle of new contacts via the Club\u2019s web site, and by word of mouth, and they have received welcoming emails from Alex and Al.  Several new faces attended the Drinks Party and the Annual Dinner and our first priority is to convert them to fully paid-up members as discussed above.<br \/><br \/>Date of the next Committee meeting:<br \/>\uf0b7 We plan to hold the next Committee meeting in October 2009 at the Caledonian Club and Alex will send out a suggested date in due course.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minutes of the AGM and Committee Meeting of the Royal High School Club in London held on 12.05.09 at the Caledonian Club.Attendees:Simon Card OBE \u2013 Committee memberSusan Geary \u2013 Committee memberChris Pountain &#8211; TreasurerAlex Prentice &#8211; SecretaryJim Randell &#8211; ArchivistJim Rowan \u2013 Club memberAl Senter &#8211; PresidentEddie Tait \u2013 Scots in London contactApologies received from:Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}