New Committee Elected at AGM - 13th Oct 2009

A Message to members from Louise Cole, Newly Elected Chairperson - Boyle Camera Club

"It was a wonderful honour to be elected Chairperson at our AGM earlier this week. I will do my best to steer the club onwards and upwards!

It has been a great privilege for me to be a committee member since the founding of the club back in September 2007, first as Secretary and latterly as PRO. I am taking the helm at a very exciting time in the club's development; we have a structured approach to meetings, almost 80 members are involved, we have regular photo-shoots, and a blossoming affiliation to the IPF.

We will, of course, miss the input at committee level of retiring Chairman, Sean O'Dowd, and Technical Adviser, Tony Murphy, co-founders of the Club. I thank them both for the enormous contribution they have made and no doubt will continue to make, since they have both promised to support us behind the scenes, but without the responsibility of committee duties.

At the AGM, two new committee members joined the team: Joe Kennedy and Paraic Brennan. Meanwhile, stalwarts Dermot Devine as Secretary and Kit O'Connor as Treasurer, continue their roles for the coming year, as does Peter Boalch as joint Competitions Secretary. Conor Dowling continues on the committee, although he has stepped down as joint Competitions Secretary to focus on developing our liaison with the IPF. I look forward to working with them all, on your behalf, in the coming year.

I hope to see many of you on Sunday (October 18th) for our next photo-shoot. We will be exploring Yeats Country – the parts of County Sligo made famous by the poet WB Yeats. We will be meeting first in the Crescent car park, Boyle, at 9am for a briefing and car pooling. If you miss that, join us at Drumcliff Church, burial place of the poet, at approximately 9.45am. As ever, because of insurance issues, this will be a members-only event. We plan to take in the beach at Lissadel, Lough Gill, and if we have time, Glencar Waterfall. We plan to be back in Boyle well before the start of the Terry Fox Run, which takes over the town, starting at 3pm!

Best wishes

Louise"

LC