Young Fellowship News Letter
The word of Ugg and loe it was so Issue 1 03/02/1998
Committee In Flux
Mr Gray chairman of the young fellowship has resigned from his post. He lists a feeling of lack of support and of a desire to be involved directly at a District level as his reasons. The post is currently vacant. The secretary and treasurer are temporarily coordinating things and it is urged that all communication should flow through them.
Internal Problems
The Young Fellowship has stuttered of late for two reasons. Communication problems Half our membership are at University most of the time. The communications problem was highlighted by people being forgotten on the ring around and letters informing of a meeting not being sent out. I as secretary and as chief of communications accept responsibility for the management failure regarding the communications. These problems have been rectified as can be seen by this news letter. The second problem is more fundamental and incurable with the programme in its current format and our current target recruitment segment. A management decision has been take such that the programme is to be restarted in April (see the Pubfest) and then it will be adjusted so that it is more events orientated toward events and structured so that major things happen during the holiday, not university time.
Salvation
The restarted Young Fellowship’s first event “Pubfest” is a corker, please attend in force. This will be a pub crawl on Saturday the 11th of February 1998, starting at the “Three Tuns” at 7.00pm prompt (you have been warned). The first round is a Tequila slammer, and after that you pick your own drinks. It is aimed to cover 15 licensed establishments, but we may only achieve 10. Bring sufficient monies for this and eat well beforehand (and try to avoid bold colours). The intention of this event is to get everyone with an interest in the young fellowship together, to socialise and to hopefully encourage new members to join our happy clan. So bring yourself and a friend (or several friends, preferably female, beautiful and who desire short, skinny oxbridge educated men).
Exploration
To supplement the programme there is a planned expedition to Ireland during the summer with the Ventures. This should be a really good camp. Chris Searle will send a letter out shortly. Details are a little wooly at the present, but the date is 7-15th of August (start and end dates are dependant on when we travel). It will be flight in to Ireland from a local airport and a stay in a cottage in Carrigrohone 6 miles north west of Cork. There will be lots of things to do if you so wish. The plan is to use this as a base. The intention is to keep the camp costs below £200 per head, but it is going to be tight. More details to follow.
Good News
Hopefully with a new management procedures in place, and developments planned in the future the YF can be the success it deserves.