117th Annual Report for the year ended July 31, 2006

Grace Park
Lawn Tennis Club Inc

117th Annual Report and Financial Statement

Year ended July 31, 2006

NOTICE TO MEMBERS

The 117h Annual General Meeting of the Grace Park Lawn Tennis Club will be held on Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 5:00pm in the Clubhouse,
6 Hilda Crescent, Hawthorn.

AGENDA

1. To confirm the minutes of the 116th Annual General Meeting held on November 27, 2005.
2. To receive the 117th Annual Report, Accounts and Balance Sheet.
3. To elect office bearers for 2006/2007.
4. To elect Auditors for 2006/2007.
5. To adopt a motion that Paul Lord be elected a Life Member of Grace Park Lawn Tennis Club Inc.
6. General Business.


By order of the General Committee

J Miles
Honorary Secretary
 

GRACE PARK LAWN TENNIS CLUB INCORPORATED
6 HILDA CRESCENT, HAWTHORN, VICTORIA 3122

Office Bearers 2005/2006

President: Mr Terry Stone

Immediate Past President: Mr Austen Diggle

Vice Presidents: Messrs Brian Gedge & David Allison

Honorary Secretary: Mr John Miles

Assistant Secretary: Mrs Sandra Stone

Honorary Treasurer: Mr Stuart Rogers

Assistant Treasurer: Mr Sebastian Sauvey

General Committee: Messrs Brett Browning, Barry Schmidt, Colin Davis, Nigel Munro, Nicolas Rayer
Mme Sandy Gedge

Life Members:  Mesdames M Court, S King, J Vatovey, Drs J Diggle*, J Henley, Messrs P Cash,
P McNamee, M Rose, A Mulhauser*, K Rogers*, T Rush, F Sedgman, S Sharman, A Diggle, W. Arthurs

Patrons: Mr J Herring, Mrs D Diggle

Club Administrator: Mrs Sandra Stone

* Deceased

Legend Present =1 Apologies = A Non Attendance = * Resigned = R
 

117TH ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2006

TO BE PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS
AT THE CLUBHOUSE ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2006

Ladies and Gentlemen,

On behalf of the Committee I submit for your consideration the 117th Annual Report, together with the audited statements for the year ended July 31, 2006.

It has been a sad year for the club with the passing of Paul Dougherty – Champion tennis player, tennis coach, devoted husband and dad.
Alan Vic – District cricketer, great mate to the regulars at the bar.
Dr John Diggle – Club legend, President, Life member, pioneer of sports medicine.
Fred Davis – Father of Colin our pennant convenor
Paul Coxhill – Played No. 1 grade 1 VTA pennant at the age of 16 in the 80’s

On behalf of the club we pass on our condolences to their friends and family.

Let’s hope the club flag stays at the top of the mast for a long time to come.

Our State Grade women’s pennant team have done us proud by defeating Dingley in the grand final 4 rubbers to 0. Congratulations to captain Kristen Van Elden (State Pennant Player of the year) Kate Pinchbeck, Kelly Dunns and Jo May on this great achievement. I am sorry that Karen Butler, due to shoulder surgery, could not be an on court part of the win but her efforts off court played a big part in the success of the team. The men’s state team lost to Kooyong in the semi final.

Veterans Section 1 and Section 3 and the Grade 3 men’s team also won pennants which makes it our most successful season for many years. Thanks to Colin Davis, Sebastian Sauvey and Sandra Stone for their huge amount of work (and many coffees) in running 22 teams in the winter, along with the Bayside Summer Competition teams.

Our sponsors for the year 2005/06 once again provided much needed financial assistance for our top level teams. Our major sponsors are as follows:

Dunlop Slazenger
Cantwells Property
Triangle Corporation
O’Loughlin Design Service Pty Ltd
Studio Craft Picture Framers
Clean & Green Property Services
Oakley Thompson & Co.
Prince

Membership numbers at the 31st July, 2006 were as follow:

Country Non-Playing: 1
Country Playing: 2
Full Playing: 230
Full Playing Gold: 6
Honorary: 3
Junior: 261
Life: 12
Non-Playing: 30
Non-Playing Gold: 3
Patron: 2
Provisional Playing: 36
Social: 12
Special Junior: 2
Temporary: 4

Total: 603

Our membership has shown a slight decrease in numbers, but still remains at a very healthy level.

The Bayside Juniors have been very successful winning 4 pennants in the winter season – well done to all concerned. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Brett Browning and his wife Kim for the great job that they
have done in running the juniors teams over the past 3 years. Brett is stepping down from the junior convenor position. Thanks for a job well done.

Through our committee’s and bar convenor Brian Gedge’s decision to not continue with a full time bar manager, but to use casual bar staff, we can now see over a full year the financial benefit to the club, and it has been substantial.

Night competition and squash pennant, I am sure, have given great stress relief to many of our hard working members. Thanks to Sandy and Brian Gedge (tennis) Graeme Rough and David Allison (squash) the club remains as vibrant as ever and the bar till continues to tick over at a great rate.

Our gymnasium continues to serve members, and acts as a great attraction to potential new members thinking of joining the club. Kirsten Sutherland and Sam McLean, through their organisation ‘Pulse’, are great assets to our club and many of our members are enjoying a new lease of life due to their training methods.

At the end of the last year Christian Muddle and Kevin Gill left the committee, we thank them for their contributions.

Stuart Rogers has carried out his role as treasurer in an extremely professional manner. We sincerely thank him for the enormous amount of time that he has put in to keep the club’s finances in check.

Club secretary John Miles continues to perform his role of Club Secretary admirably – it takes a lot of hard work, which is greatly appreciated.

Sandra Stone our club administrator is to be commended for her approach to all matters pertaining to the day to day running of the club.

David Allison once again tirelessly ran the club championships over the Labour Day weekend in March which saw Paul Lord creating club history by winning his 10th Men’s Open Singles title.

Kim Tram has once again played an instrumental part in the preservation of the club’s history. Through his company ‘Studio Craft’, he has framed more of our historic club photos, including one of Sir Robert Menzies. He also donated the framing of our latest State Grade Women’s flag.

Your committee has decided to cease the costly and time consuming quarterly newsletter and replace it with regular updates on our new website www.graceparkltc.com For some of our older members this may pose a problem but we must be with the times. Tony Lam and Sandy Gedge have put in an enormous amount of work to produce such an excellent site.

Austen Diggle our immediate past president continues to be a great help to the committee, and me personally, with his vast knowledge of the club

Finally, I would like to sincerely thank all members for their support without which Grace Park would not be regarded as one of the top clubs in Victoria.

Terry Stone
President
 

WINTER PENNANT TEAMS 2006
Men’s Pennant Teams 2006

Sunday Teams