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Sent on 7 January 2007.

Dear OP,

Thank you for requesting the OP Club Newsletters by e-mail. Please find a copy of the latest mailing below.

The Newsletter includes the agenda for the AGM on Friday 23 February.

Regards,
Simon Laurie (88-98)
OP Club Webmaster.
http://www.opclub.co.uk

January 2007 Newsletter

As usual, it gives me great pleasure to wish all members of the OP Club all the best for the New Year. I hope you enjoyed a great festive season and are now busy working off all the excesses of that time. This festive season started for some of us when we enjoyed a very successful Annual Dinner at the Grammar school. This was voted a most pleasant evening by all who attended. Now, looking forward rather than backward, some dates for your diaries for the new year.

23 February
The Club AGM. This meeting is followed by a most pleasant Buffet Supper. Please attend if you can and help to support those who run your Club. Any nominations for the Committee, especially ladies, would be welcomed most warmly

17 March
Whitcombe House Reunion. This is being organised by the Development Office to whom all queries should be directed via the School or the Hon.Sec.

9 June
Reunion for the Leavers of 1965-1970. Details as for the previous reunion

22 June
Provisional date for the Summer Sports fixtures, Cricket and Tennis matches, to be confirmed by the School.

24 September
School Prize Giving in the Cathedral

12 October
The Club Autumn Supper. With entertainment by the members of the School Music Department.

15th December
The Annual Dinner and Winter Sports fixtures with the School.

More details of all these events, except the AGM, will appear in later newsletters.

If you have any questions please email Roger Harris: beaston@kingscourt.org.uk.

Stop Press

Those of you who do not live close to Portsmouth may not yet have heard this important news item. The year 2008 will see a change in the Headmaster at Portsmouth Grammar School. We send our warmest congratulation to Tim Hands who will become Master of Magdalen College School after ten years of guiding the affairs of PGS. We will cover this important item in greater detail in the next edition of the Old Portmuthian.

Sadly we have to announce the deaths of two of the senior members of the Club. Peter Bath, who had become one of the leading lights amongst OPs in the Bournemouth area, died just before Christmas and Basil Willshire only a week or so ago. We hope to be able to publish obituaries for both in the next magazine.

A Plea from the Hon. Sec: - The number of letters returned by the GPO as "undeliverable" is on the increase despite the fact that we send fewer letters by this method these days. This is wasteful of both money and effort. Please make sure that if you change your address, either postal or e-mail, you let me know so that I can correct the database. Many thanks.

Roger Harris.
Hon. Sec.

AGM 2007

The AGM of the Old Portmuthian Club will be held in the Rotunda, commencing at 2000 on Friday 23 February 2007 (meet from 1930 onwards for a glass of wine beforehand). The meeting will be followed by a Buffet Supper in the School's new Dining Hall complex, for which the charge will be £10. Only members of the Club may play an active part in the AGM, but anyone interested will be very welcome, both at the meeting and particularly at the social gathering which follows at approximately 2100.

Agenda

1. Apologies.

2. Minutes of the AGM held on 24 February 2006.

3. Matters arising.

4. Presentation of the Annual Accounts.

5. Reading and adoption of reports.
a) Hon. Secretary. b) The London Society. c) The OP Charity.

6. Report on the past academic year by the Headmaster.

7. Report by the outgoing President, Nick Gauntlett.

8. Election of President: The name of His Honour Judge Jeff Blackettt is put forward by the Committee for the approval of the Club.

9. Election of Vice President: The name of X is put forward by the Committee for the approval of the Club.

10.   Election of Officers: These posts are currently held as follows:
Hon. Treasurer    :    Barry Easton
Hon. Secretary    :    Roger Harris
Ass. Hon. Secretary    :    Michael Shepherd

11.   Election of the Committee: In addition to those already mentioned above, the following served on the Committee for the period 2006/2007:
Immediate Past President    :    Nick Gauntlett
London Society Representative    :    Richard Harrison (ex-officio)
Development Director    :    Mrs Liz Preece (ex-officio)

and John Bishop, Neil Blewett, Adam Fraser-Harris, John Kidd, David Morey, Ms. Rebecca Parkyn, Gareth Perry, Rev. Michael Peters, Bruce Strugnell, Bill Taylor and Roger Wilkins.

Ms Rebecca Parkyn does not wish to be considered for re-election.
All others who served in 2006 are available for re-election.
Nominations for any or all of these posts, items 8, 9, 10 and 11, should be sent to the Hon. Secretary at least four days prior to the AGM. Nominations will not be accepted at the meeting.

12. Appointment of Honorary Auditor: The name of Mr Alan Pearson is put forward by the Committee for the approval of the Club.

13. Any other business.

Roger Harris (Hon.Sec.).