Meet The Court
On June 14th, the Master invited all the members to Meet the Court at Past Master Hugh Oddie's house in Toronto. For those of you who have attended events at Hugh's house in the past, you will know Hugh is a very generous host and once again left nothing to chance looking after us with great hospitality putting on a fine spread for supper and an excellent selection of wines for our enjoyment.
The Master welcomed us all, thanked Hugh for his gracious hospitality and introduced the Court for 2011-2012.
In all we were close to close to 30 members and guests with the evening generating a small surplus.
Summer Evening Buffet Dinner
Regrettably, as some of you know, the Summer Buffet Dinner held at the RCYC Island Club House had to be re-scheduled to another venue as the RCYC has discontinued its Sunday Summer Buffet Dinners.
After evaluating many different venues, most of which would have been cost prohibitive, we decided on The Angus Glen Golf Club and booked Sunday August 21.
In all we were 29 members and guests for dinner and enjoyed a very pleasant reception followed by the Buffet Dinner. Regrettably, the weather didi not allow us to be outside for the reception. The reception commenced at 6:00pm with dinner at 7:00. We were warmly welcomed by the Master who, following his remarks and welcome, invited us all to enjoy the buffet.
Later, Doug Wilkinson ably proposed the toast to the Guests and John Smith proposed the toast to the Honourable Company.
We broke up at approximately at 9:30pm having enjoyed a very pleasant evening.
Wine Tasting Fund Raiser
Our wine tasting fund-raiser was a success, based on the number of people who attended. The feedback from all participants and attendees was positive in all aspects. The event was held at the Green Room of the Performing Arts Lodge that welcomed attendees with a cozy ambiance. Jim Walker of Arthur Cellars provided an excellent selection of
Châteauneuf du Pape wines from the Rhone region and was on hand throughout the evening to provide commentary on each wine to the attendees. The wines were complimented by an array of tasty hors d’oeuvres from Catering For You. Both the silent auction and raffle ticket sales were enthusiastically supported.
Through the good efforts of some of our members, friends and sponsors, we have so far netted over $3,000.00.
Despite the success on the night we were not able to achieve our goal to raise $5,000.00. As you know we have committed to provide $5,000.00 in scholarship funds per year to the University of Western Ontario to enable a student to attend their final year of undergraduate study or first year of post-graduate work at a university of their choice in London, England.
Obviously it would be impossible to accommodate all Freemen at a limited space venue on the night. But for those who could not attend,
you can still participate in the success of our fund-raising evening and help in achieving our goal by making a tax-deductible donation today to our scholarship fund.
As such we are asking you to make a donation of $70.00, $100.00, or $150.00. If all Freemen generously respond we can ensure that we fulfill our continuing commitment to the University of Western Ontario and a deserving student. Charity
Charity
All three above events generated a small to medium gross profit and after administration expenses to be determined by the Treasurer and approved by the Court, the surplus will be transferred to our Charitable Account,
John Bishop and John Welch
Event Chairs
Company Comment - Spring 2012
The Unique City
The City Livery Companies
Freedom of The City
The Constitution of Company