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Last updated 07 Feb 2012 - See What's New below. 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 20th July 2011. There were no speakers against the motion. The changed removed the need to find a qualified Auditor to audit the annual accounts but required that "An individual, who shall not be a member of the committee, shall be appointed by the committee of the chapter and shall audit the chapter accounts before the Financial Statement is presented to the Annual General Meeting." In the left hand sidebar you will also find links to reports of events held in the past 12 months. QCC Sydney Dinner ClubDue to falling attendance at our quarterly dinners, we are trying something new, to be called the QCC Sydney Dinner Club. The plan is to arrange dinner at a club, pub or restaurant, vary the location and probably set a regular schedule, for instance the second Wednesday of every even month. The format will evolve over time and we have yet to decide the frequency and date, however the inaugural event will be at Hawks on Second Avenue, a pleasant Bowling Club in Eastwood, at 6:30pm on 20th April 2011 and you can download details here. At this event we will canvas your ideas regarding format, the date and possible locations. If possible, we will set the location, date and organiser for the next one at the inaugural event. If you plan to come, please let Hugh know. Ph: 9888 3634 or email:
hnmpb@optusnet.com.au 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. IBMers resident in NSW automatically receive membership of the Sydney Chapter on qualifying for the QCC. 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. 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 the second half of the year 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 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. The Sydney Chapter 2010 AGM was held at Il Bolognese Function Centre on Tuesday 5th October. You can read the minutes, Ian Miller's President's Report and Lorraine Tacouni's Treasurer's Report here. Len Norman was elected to the committee and all the current officers and committee were returned for another year. YES WE CAN..BERRA…AN ODYSSEY BY THE QCC TO SAVE THE NATION The August election result being somewhat debatable and all political parties gathering in Canberra to haggle and blame each other, it seemed appropriate that the QCC should sally forth to bask in the hot air, enjoy the sights and sounds of the national capital and release our stimulus package to assist the Canberra economy. With those noble intentions, the QCC Party opened for beverages in Geoff & Rhonda Nash’s room at Queanbeyan’s Airport International Motel, a structure rather like an enlarged Mongolian yurt. Dinner followed at the local RSL Club, a never ending feast of delicious Chinese cuisine and with all replete, along came an ice cream dessert! Canberra is where the Education Revolution began and we saw the evidence at breakfast where beetroot on cornflakes was offered. We must be a conservative lot for few were seduced to try the offering. With a hop on/hop off coach at our disposal, there were no less than 10 fascinating venues to visit and it soon became obvious that not all could be seen in one day. Your scribe found Old Parliament House of great interest, the National Portrait Gallery to be a quite delightful array of past and contemporary personalities, and the National War Memorial, wow, there’s so much to see. The interactive exhibits were fresh and live with as much action as an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie! One could spend a whole day and not see everything. Other members of our group visited Questacon, the Glassworks, Screen and Sound and the Australian Mint but we understand, were miffed by the refusal of the Mint to offer samples of their work. Saturday night dinner was at Yarralumla. The Governor General probably could not accommodate our large group so we dined next door at the Canberra Southern Cross Yacht Club. The food was divine. Must say they eat well in Canberra! The return trip to our motel featured a late night coach tour through Duntroon Military College, looking for the relocated Chapel from Changi POW Camp, Singapore. It was hard to see in the dark but we proved that the Duntroon sentries were too relaxed to notice a very large touring coach traversing the maze of internal roads looking for the Changi Chapel. Sunday was farewell to Canberra day but many stayed on to visit Floriade, a showcase of landscape and floral design with the most beautiful flower displays. Your scribe concluded the Canberra visit with lunch at the revolving restaurant on Black Mountain. In such glorious weather, the views and the extent of the National Capital were most impressive. While many of us scoff at the bush capital, there’s no doubt the planners have achieved something of which we can all be proud. It was another great QCC Weekend, thanks to the organizers, Geoff & Rhonda Nash, Clyde & Connie Lee. John Watts NewsMinutes of 2009 AGM held at Il Bolognese on 6th October 2009 can be downloaded here. We have recently added a Newsletter to the Sydney Chapter offerings. You can download a copy in .PDF format from this table.
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 automatically becomes a member of the Sydney 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.Although your membership is automatic, we
would appreciate it if you would fill in the Member Details form for our
records and forward it to our Secretary whose details you can find on
the Contacts Page. You can
download the form here either in
Word .DOC
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Acrobat .PDF. What's New
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