Presidents Message

    

President’s Notes

Dear Fellow Probians.

Well the time has just about come: at the March meeting I will be handing over to the very capable Peter Matthews who will be our President during 2024-2025.

I am very pleased to tell you that all Committee positions have been filled. Unusually both our new Treasurer and Vice President are relatively new members. This reinforces the need to continually bring in new people which both refreshes and provides impetus for the Club. So, if you don’t feel able to actively take on a position to help run the Club, don’t feel guilty, just recommend us to a younger friend, neighbour, son, daughter or two!

My thanks to the many members who have either been recognised in earlier newsletters and/or are named in the Annual Report. This will be sent to all members, along with the financial statements before the AGM which is on March 4th.

Formalities will be short and there will be a speaker as usual, so I hope to see you there.

I have been told that members enjoy my Notes which I have tried to make both interesting and fun. This last report was going to be brief but once I started writing, I’m afraid that my iPad got carried away.

I have been a member of Auburn Probus since the first year of the Club. In the early days, my first Caravan and Camping trip (now called Getaway) was to Swan Hill; my beautiful little dog had just died and I was feeling very down but by then it was too late to book a cabin, however I was able to grab a motel room next to the caravan park where everyone
else was staying. It was the best thing that I could have done and I remember at the first evening get together around the bbq asking “is it always as good as this?” and was assured that it was. It went uphill from there.

Books have always been a huge part of my life, and I am now looking after our Wednesday group, with fantastic support from the Balwyn Library, (your rates at work).

I also enjoy collecting one or two extras from the swap table. Please stop me.

Other favourite activities include amazing day trips - the best way to meet other members, walking through parks and gardens you often can’t see from your car, dine outs, and previously, a great fav: movies at the Palace with sandwich lunches to follow. I have also so enjoyed the amazing range of speakers who have given their time for us, all merely
rewarded with a bottle of something tasty.

As you can tell, I love being a member of this vibrant Club.

I look forward to supporting the new Committee under our next President and I am sure that the Club will remain in good hands in 2024 which is also our 20th anniversary.

So, as this is my last report as President, may I take the opportunity to thank you for your goodwill and support and to send you all my best wishes and my usual message-stay safe.

Stay safe and active.

Carole Williams


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