AWC Going Dutch May June 2022

Plucked from the Shredder
by Georgia Regnault
Financial documents need to be stored for seven years. When we sold the old AWC
Clubhouse in 2012, many documents older than seven years were moved into our new
rented space and remained stored there for years. At some point, former Secretary Ellen
Bollock and I went through lots of old files, and I shredded a bunch. Then a few years ago, I
lent my shredder to the AWC so some more old documents could be shredded. Unfortunately,
my shredder tends to overheat, so it’s hard to use if you’re not in your own home where you
can easily walk away to let it cool off and pick up the project later. With this year’s move,
I said I’d shred out-of-date financial records of the Club. I took home eight garbage bags
worth of old documents! However, before shredding, I’d glance at what I was feeding into
the machine at ten pages at a time. These are the documents, I plucked from the shredder
with the intention of scanning to include in the AWC archives.
Miscellaneous Documents
• 1930-2002: Graph of Membership
• 2007: Holiday Bazaar Financial
Results: € 4,377
• 2007: Pink Ribbon Gala: earned €
275,000 to add to the € 500,000 already
earned in previous Galas since 2002;
430 guests came
• 2008: Pink Ribbon Gala list of recipients
of the various research projects: €
229,290 distributed
• 2008: Spring Fest & Bazaar at ASH
• 2008-2009: List of items in AWC Policy
Plan for an ANBI (Dutch non-profit)
• 1979: AWC Constitution in Dutch
• 1994: Thank you letter from Chrysler
International and the Netherlands
Foreign Investment Agency after the
AWC hosted a breakfast for their executives
in our Clubhouse. They were
investigating where to install their
European office. Unfortunately for us,
Brussels won! (I always thought the
AWC should do more of this type of
event.)
• 1994: Offer from US Ambassador
Dornbush’s wife, Marilyn, to have an Easter Egg hunt/roll in the garden of the
Ambassador’s residence (Great idea for the future perhaps?)
• 1994-1995 President’s Annual Report, including job description
• 2001: List of local organizations that
we donated to, totaling Dfl. 11,000
• 2002: Complaint from a lawyer representing
next door neighbor about noise
deep into the night!
• 2002-2009: AWC Philanthropy
Allocations totaling a whopping
€ 1,146,759
• 2005 + 2014 AWC Member Surveys
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plus ANBI Policy Plan prepared when
applying for this tax-exempt status plus
bill for translating our Policy Plan
• 2010-2011: AWC Net YTD
Contributions to Charity: € 7,782
• 2013: Financial yearly report from van
Lanschot Bankers
• 2015: Board installation photo
• 2015: 85 Years and Counting event flyer
featuring pianist and author, Robin
Goldsby at Nieuwspoort
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• 2020: Handbag Auction Timeline for
planning (postpone due to coronavirus
pandemic until April 2022)
• 2021: AWC Clubhouse Plan for new
place
• Example of contract for an AWC instructor
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