Foreword from the President
Here we are already in March and Christmas seems to have drifted into the distant past. However, I hope you all had a very Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year and you have all dodged the dreaded Covid 19. Now we can look forward to spring and the days drawing out.
It was good seeing many of you at the Reunion dinner, what an excellent turnout but sad to say that one attendee was harbouring Covid without knowing it and another caught the virus. I am pleased to inform you that both have since fully recovered. It brings the virus nearer to home when the Secretary and his wife recently contracted the virus and we had to postpone the
January meeting. Again, you will be pleased to know they are both fully recovered.
The Committee has been meeting bi-monthly albeit online and have been able to carry through business as usual due to the dedication of the Committee and members attending online. The Secretary sends out a meeting calling notice to well over 100 members by email.
This year we will publish a new directory and as usual we will be sending out tickets for the Grand National Draw and the 135th Annual Reunion Dinner will be held in the UJC London on 14th October 2022. The Secretary will go into more detail in this newsletter, and you are encouraged to all purchase the draw tickets and seriously think about attending the on-line meetings and it goes without saying attending the Reunion Dinner.
I reiterate what I said before that is that the virus is eradicated, or we learn to live with it and get back to normal. Keep Safe & Healthy
Colin Hughes
RNWA President
3 Barnes Lane
Sarisbury Green
Southampton Hants.
SO31 7DA
Tel. 01489 573101
‘Crossed the Bar’
Lapsed member Norman Baker of Southsea ‘CTB’ in January 2022.
Membership
As of 31st January 2022:-
3 Honorary Members
29 Life Members
238 Members
270 Total
63 members were due to pay their contribution in 2022 – check out the list on the website, detailed by Alphabetical Surname order and by Month due.
8 are outstanding from 2021 and this is a final reminder! 3 members have been Lapsed in Jan 2022 i.a.w Rules 5 & 6 – see the website.
Records indicate there are no Life Memberships to be awarded in 2022
Renewal Contributions can be made (minimum £10) via online payment:
Lloyds Bank plc 30-96-26 Account No. 34521468
Email amount & date **
Grand National – April
Please do your best to sell the enclosed tickets (2 books – 5 to a book) for this year’s Grand National on Saturday 9th April starting at 5.15pm i.e., at £1 per ticket and £5.00 the book. Payment can be made direct online ** just quote Ref: GN (same paying in details for the Renewal contributions and can be combined e.g., GN / REN) and email me to let me know. Ensure ticket stubs after payment is made are returned BY 4th April.
1st Prize is £200.00 !!!
135th Reunion Dinner
Friday 14th October at The Union Jack Club, London – £35.00
Full information and details are enclosed separately. Also, all details are on the website
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
2022 sees the 5th anniversary year of the production of a RNWA Directory detailing ALL members names and addresses and contact tel. numbers (not emails)
To ensure the RNWA records held are correct, check the address label on the envelope and written Tel. number – if incorrect contact me asap. Publishing in May!
2022 sees the 5th anniversary year of the production of a RNWA Directory detailing ALL members names and addresses and contact tel. numbers (not emails)
To ensure the RNWA records held are correct, check the address label on the envelope and written Tel. number – if incorrect contact me asap. Publishing in May!
If you do not wish your details to be published, then advise and contact me no later than 8th April.
Details will not and are not to be shared with any Third parties and are to be kept within the confines of the RNWA membership!
Uckers World Pairs Championship
The tournament was held in HM Naval Dockyard Portsmouth in a large marque outside the ‘Mary Rose’ and opposite HMS VICTORY on Saturday 23rd October 2021. Les represented the RNWA with partner ex-Stoker Steve ‘Sherbie’ Barrett (Chairman of Gosport RAFA Club where they met) entering as ‘HMS PICKLE Pussers Pirates’.
The format of the event was held on a knock-out basis with ‘HPPP’ finding themselves after a day of playing in the final; Sherbie’s first attempt, after Les’s past failures of being knocked out in the first round in previous years. Unfortunately, HPPP became Runners-Up losing to a WRN who’d never played before and her husband, both of whom worked for the RNRMC co-organisers of the event.
Avoid Covid19!
Les Heyhoe
Newsletter Editor & Producer, The Secretary & Membership
Email: les@heyhoe.com
Tel. 023 9235 7181 or 07712 404127