RIVERINA VIETNAM VETERANS REUNION GRIFFITH 2011

Minutes of AGM held at Griffith Ex-Servicemens Club on 6^th November 2011

Chairman Hank Veenhuizen declared the meeting open at 11.20am.

Apologies:   Ian Humby, Terry Holmes, Russell Brain, Brian Fisher and Wayne Hill.

Minutes:   Minutes of the meeting held in Young in 2010 were read and it was moved by Andy Burnett and seconded by Terry Hampstead that they be accepted as a true record of those proceedings. Carried.

Business arising from the previous minutes:   Nil.

Finance Report:   Griffith received an amount of $9000 from the Young Reunion Committee. It was too early to have an accurate figure that will be passed on to Albury but it will certainly be no less than the $9000 received from Young.

General Business:

1)       John Power gave a rundown on the Vietnam Veterans Walk located in Seymour and suggested that all who can should visit there and support their effort in setting it up.

2)      Steve Tolsher spoke on the Griffith Reunion and offered his personal congratulations to the Committee for the running of a successful Reunion and this was then endorsed by all in attendance by way of acclamation.

3)      Milton Pearson spoke in relation to the talk given by Guest Little Pattie and how much all those at the Dinner enjoyed her performance and her company on the night.

4)      Ray Lunt gave an introduction to the Albury Reunion in 2012 and displayed the T-Shirts that will be on offer. The dates for the Albury Reunion are the 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th November 2012 and the function is to be held at the SS&A Club. There was general discussion regarding Port Crocks and possible alternatives such as wine packs.  

5)      Lloyd Patterson spoke on the importance of developing the existing website and using it as an important communication tool and a place to put forward suggestions and proposals for members to access throughout the whole year instead of only at the once a year meeting as we do now. Just Google Riverina Vietnam Veterans and have a look.

6)      Nominations were called for the running of the 2013 Reunion and Leeton offered to be the hosts and this was gratefully accepted by the meeting.

7)      There was a lot of discussion regarding what should be done with the build up of money being passed from Reunion to Reunion each year and the options ranged from opening a Term Deposit for some of it, to subsidising plaques for members to buy, to using some to entice the smaller towns to hold a reunion at some stage, to holding the reunion in one central place each year.  It was put that all these suggestions and any others are to be discussed at the next AG Meeting. (once again).

8)      Terry Walsh spoke regarding the logos for the Reunion used by the various towns and whilst they are somewhat similar they do vary considerably and he suggested that perhaps we should standardise the logo to be used for the website and for all correspondence.

      There being no further business Chairman Hank closed the meeting at 12.02pm.