I cannot believe it the year is up already and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
However the only way success works is with the help from the club members. I found our club members so helpful over all
the years I have been involved with Mooroopna Apex.
This year I have felt that I have achieved satisfaction from Apex in finishing my year off as President.
Many thanks goes to my board, especially to Ken Grieve as Secretary in making my job a lot easier, also to Graeme Sidebottom for his great job as Treasurer, Clive Wood, Peter Beyer, Mike Nethersole, John Stevens, David Brown, Bill Parsons, Bill Beanham, and Gary Brown.
Whenever I asked the members to follow up or do something they always backed me up and got it done. Starting the
year with a burnt down club paper shed made all members get together with help from other local organisations in Mooroopna and life members of our club to rebuild it in nearly one day.
Without the monthly paper drive our club would find it very hard to raise money for charities. It is our only big money
raising income for the year. I would like to see an easier
way in handling paper than double handling it. I suppose after Peter and I leave the club this year a top idea will come up.
Thanks Peter for the top job you have done as paper director. It involved many hours of work and with the loss of five members due to business commitments earlier in the year it had me very concerned.
Thanks to Bill Parsons and club members with a great effort in which we gained three new members and two transfers into our club.
Service plays a big part in my life in Apex and Apex cannot survive without it. To walk up and knock on the door of a
pensioner’s home and offer a trailer load of wood and find out
they have just burnt the last log. It really hits your heart.
Painting the R.S.L. club rooms goes a long way to satisfaction
in helping the community I feel. Thanks John for your top job
as service director and as Vice President. You stood in for
me when I asked and controlled things as I would have wished.
Many thanks to Clive as dinner notice director, it is always a hard portfolio to get directors to give you reports but you were always able to get the news passed on to the club.
I congratulate Bill for taking on social when you were
only in the club for a short time. It’s a demanding portfolio.
The social highlight is always the fishing trip. It gets
better every year, especially in getting to know our club
members and to enjoy the fun of camping. It is a tremendous
fellowship weekend.
Highlights of this year for me:
Representing our club at Wodonga Zone convention, Dookie seminar, hosting district board, having four life members
at a club meeting, hosting the final of the district debating and representing the club at the Mooroopna Combined Service Clubs dinner.
Sixteen years in Apex has gone very quickly, and when I think back there is a lot of things that I have had great pleasure in doing, and I have gained a lot of friends.
I wish Clive the best as the incoming President and I know he will enjoy his term as I did.
Yours in Apex
Ray Booth
