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Was this the start of 41 INTERNATIONAL ?originally
Old Tablers’ Associations
Copy of the first Conference Agenda from the Archives of Eric Miller.(GB)
This very first Conference ( today AGM) was held 5 days after the end of World War II
SUNDAY 13th May 1945
CONFERENCE
Agenda
1. Appoint Conference Chairman
2. Resolved that this conference approves and proceeds
with the formation of a National Association
3. Name of the Association, its Aims and Objects
4. Election of Officers
5. Election of sub-committee to formulate rules.
LUNCHEON
6. Discussion on Wakefield’s suggested rules
7. Any other competent business
........25 years ago; what The Hinge said then,
taken from the english “winter” edition in 1983
We were formed at a Conference in 1945 and,
ever since, the Annual Conference has been the
highlight of the Association’s year. Some members
and their wives have attended regularly for many
years, others come on occasions, many never come
— but then it was the same in Round Table! The
sheer fun enjoyed at the Conference and the pleasure
of making new friends and renewing old acquaintances
at its various social functions are
reward enough for those attending.
However, when a party of New Zealand 41 Club
members and their wives attended our Annual
Half-Yearly Meeting, Mauritius 12 - 14th September 2008
Lytham St Annes Liverpool
FIRST NATIONAL
CONFERENCE
UNDER THE AUSPICES
OF THE
WAKEFIELD “41” CLUB
Conference in Glasgow in 1980 the opportunity
was taken to allocate the memento they gave us, in
appreciation of the hospitality given to them by
clubs during their stay in the British Isles, as an annual
award to clubs attending future Conferences.
Named the “Kiwi Klub’, it is awarded to the club
sending the highest proportion of its active membership
the greatest distance to the Annual Conference.
The first winners were the London Old
Tablers Society, followed by Milngavie Bearsden in
1981 and Ripley & District in 1982.
The Hinge, Winter 1983
of
OLD TABLERS’ ASSOCIATIONS
Held at Wakefield 12th-13th May 1945
Wakefield London
This Conference Agenda carrying the signatures of many of the Members that were in attendance.
Item 7 “Any other competent business” should be readopted today
Conference Trophies
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