Annual General Meeting
(The following mailing from our Chairman was included in the November Bioscope)
MERCIA CINEMA SOCIETY
Registered charity no 1001524
From the Chairman
19 Pinder’s Grove
Wakefield WF1 4AH
9 November 2009
Dear Member,
Mervyn Gould
It is with very great sadness that I have to report the death of our Administrator, Mervyn Gould, on 28 October. The funeral is at Loughborough Crematorium on Friday 13 November at 3.30pm.
Overleaf you will find details of our Annual Meeting on 12 December. Mervyn’s death is a massive blow to the Society. He was wonderfully dedicated to it, giving a great part of his time and all his talents, in design and writing, as well as in ‘networking’, to its success.With the death of Mervyn, cinema and theatre history have lost a major player.
I do not myself believe that we can carry on without him although I know he would have wished us to do so.
I shall propose from the Chair at the Annual Meeting that the Society, which was founded in 1980, be wound up in accordance with the details set out in our Constitution. Members will, of course, have the opportunity to debate this motion fully.
Yours sincerely,
Kate Taylor
MERCIA CINEMA SOCIETY
Registered Charity no 1001524
Notice of Annual Meeting 2009
The Annual Meeting of the Society will be held on Saturday 12 December at the Odeon, Putney, at 11.15am (Committee meeting at 11.00am)
Agenda: 1) Apologies for absence
2) The Minutes of the Annual Meeting held on 13 December 2008
3) Matters arising from the Minutes
4) Reports from officers: Chairman’s review of the year,
Treasurer’s report
Membership officer’s report
Sales officer’s report
Editor’s report
5) Motion from the Chair that the Society be wound up in accordance with the
details set out in the Constitution
If the motion fails:
6) Election of officers for 2009-2010
The refreshment facilities in the Cinema Foyer will be available and we are promised an opportunity to see the projection facilities.
This is, obviously, a critical meeting and members are urged to attend or, if unable to do so, to send the completed proxy form to the Chair, Kate Taylor, 19 Pinder’s Grove, Wakefield. WF1 4AH
The motion that the Society be wound up follows the death of the Administrator, Mervyn Gould, but is presented also in the light of the Society’s deteriorating financial position and the need for new officers at least in terms of a Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, and Membership Secretary, We have 210 members and, although the committee meets only once a year, overall expenses, including the costs of room-hire and the production and mailing of the Bioscopes, outweigh subscription income.
But we must bear in mind that the Society is the principal publisher of research into the history of picture houses.
If you feel strongly that the Society must continue, it is important that you indicate what you can do yourself to sustain it. It would need, at the least, an able new Chair and Secretary, and someone with design and typesetting skills and the time to use them in a voluntary capacity for the benefit of the Society.
Kate Taylor
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