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D R A F T subject to approval by 2017 Annual General MeetingPSC(16-17)P1
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Peterhouse Society
Saturday 25 June 2016
The Annual General Meeting of the Peterhouse Society for 2016 was held on Saturday 25 June 2016, in the Friends of Peterhouse Theatre.
Present: the Chairman and the Secretary, and about 34 members of the Society.
1.Minutes of the Annual General Meeting, 2015
The minutes were approved.
2.Matters arising from the minutes
There were no matters arising from the minutes.
3.Chairman's report
The Chairman, Lord Thomas, welcomed members to the Annual General Meeting. It had been another enjoyable year and he thanked the College’s Development team, Saskia Murk Jansen, Ann Munro and Holly Ashcroft for organising such a varied schedule of events. The year had started bywelcoming Petreans and their families back to College with the Family Day, a donor garden party, and the William Stone Society Dinner. In London the talk by Clive Aslet at the drinks event had been tremendously entertaining and the wine tasting dinners at the House of Lordshad seen Dr Munday in superb form. The Golf day had been another success as had the tea party on the banks of the Cam on the last day of the Mays. He reported that ninety three Petreans and their guests would be sitting down for dinner and welcomedthem all. He then closed by saying that the College was clearly in good heart and that the Society looked forward to continuing to support a programme of events aimed at maintaining the Collegiate feel with lots of opportunities for cross-generational discussion.
4.Treasurer's Report
The Secretary presented the Treasurer’s report as Mr Andrew McIntyre was unavoidably absent. The Society's accounts for the year ended 31st December 2015 were tabled at the meeting.
The Treasurer's report was adopted.
5.Election of Officers and Committee members
TheChairman thanked the retiring members of the Committee, Mr Caulfield, Mr Harding, and Mr Martin, for their service to the College during their term of office. He then reported that Mr Harding and Mr Martinhad kindly agreed to serve a further term of three years. Mr Caulfield had regretfully declined due to increased travel commitments. Mr Harding and Mr Martin were dulyre-elected. The Chairman then asked members to propose other potential members of the Committee and to let the Secretary to have the names. [Addendum: after the meeting Mr Christopher Stride (m. 1966) and Dr Mila Marinova (m. 2005) agreed to be co- opted onto the Committee for a period of three years.]
7.Any other business
There wasnone.
Dr S M Murk Jansen
Secretary
July 2016