Annual General Meetings

Although the club's Annual General Meeting has tended to be in the Town Hall in recent years, this has not always been the case. When I joined it was held in Kilbowie Primary School and the same classroon was allocated every year. It was in fact used twice each year - we had a Half Yearly Meeting as well. The AGM was in September/October and the Half Yearly in April. The winter fixtures were produced by the club captains (men and women) at the AGM and the track championship details were divulged by the captains at the April Half Yearly. No last minute jiggery pokery - the captain was responsible for producing the details and dates with the Committee ratifying them. The swankiest venue for the AGM in my time was when Gerry Kennedy had it in the Beardmore Hotel at Dalmuir. The corridors were of a higher standard of furnishing than most venues have been and as for the room for the meeting! There was even a table at the rear with various fruit squashes and coffee and tea available for those attending. The least salubrious was the Hut in Thomson Street.

In the beginning, the meetings were held in Miss Cranston's Restaurant, the Bath Hotel and other such establishments but the one I would MOST have liked to attend was when the club hired a steamer, had the AGM on board as it headed down the Clyde and then a sports day was held at Rothesay before having dinner on the boat back. Are you listening Peter, Yvonne, Jim? It's probably too late for April 17th this year, but see next year????