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Last updated 15 Oct 2008 - See What's New below. NSW Annual Dinner RSVP FormsYou can
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Welcome to the Sydney Chapter of the IBM Quarter Century Club. Here you will find our current Calendar of events and find out more about the Chapter, how to contact us and how to join the Chapter. You can view our Constitution which has been updated following the successful motion put to a Special General Meeting on 5th July 2006. There were no speakers against the motion. In the left hand sidebar you will also find links to reports of events held in the past 12 months. About the Sydney ChapterThe Sydney Chapter of the QCC was formed in May 1966. It supports people living in both NSW and ACT, has over 300 members and is run by a committee of 10-12 people drawn from Chapter membership. The Chapter organises a quarterly dinner with speaker at a variety of restaurants and clubs in the Sydney metropolitan area, a weekend away in rural NSW and one or two other social events. See our Calendar for this year's event list. On it you will also see in November the IBM Annual Induction Dinner. This is the one event of the year run by and funded by IBM Australia and the one event of the year for which QCC members do not have to be a member of the Chapter to attend. The rest are all self-funding Chapter events; that is, the members who attend contribute towards the cost of running the event. Costs are kept to a minimum and are not intended to make a profit. Unless otherwise specified, invitations to members include their partner, spouse or friend. All pay the same cost per head. Our AGM is usually in May and coincides with one of the quarterly dinners. At this meeting the Committee and its office bearers stand down and a new set elected. All existing committee members and office bearers are entitled to stand again for the new year if they so wish. Office bearers are President, Secretary and Treasurer. The President and Secretary are usually present IBMA employees in order to maintain close contact with our parent company but the remainder of the committee may be made up of both present and past employees. The Committee meets 8 times a year, 4 of those coinciding with the quarterly dinners. Chapter Members are encouraged to stand for the Committee to impart new ideas, help run the club and keep it vibrant and interesting for members. Members receive timely invitations to each event on the calendar and, depending upon the event, are asked to book and pay in advance. We can take payment by direct deposit, cheque, postal order or cash, but not yet by credit card... sorry. Communication is preferably by email but those who chose to remain on a postal distribution list receive the same details. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we are not always able to inform those on the postal distribution list of last minute changes, or of events such as the funeral arrangements of one of our members. It helps the Committee enormously if you are on the email distribution list. CalendarsChapter Meetings & Social Events and Committee Meetings are now in separate tables. Recent changes are highlighted with a different background colour. ContactsSee Contacts page.MembershipAnybody living in NSW who has qualified for the IBM Quarter Century Club is welcome to join our Chapter. The Chapter has both present and former employees of IBM Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world. You don't have to have qualified in Australia to become a member of the Chapter.We ask for a small contribution towards the cost of running the Chapter of a one-time life membership fee of $50. To join the Chapter, you can contact our secretary or just fill in the Sydney Membership Application form which you can download here in MS Word or Acrobat format. Send it with your membership fee to our Secretary. The address is on the form. What's New
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