Minutes of Annual General Meeting 1991 - 92 Held at 7:30pm on Thursday 11th June in the Old JCR, Emmanuel College. Present were the entire Committee except for Harvey Maycock, and 19 other members of the Society, many of whom arrived at random intervals throughout the meeting. The President opened the meeting, the business of which was as follows: 1. Minutes of Last Year's AGM Read by the Secretary. 2.Junior Treasurer's Report. The gist of this was that we had made a reasonable profit on the previous year. 3. Setting the Subscription Fees The Junior Treasurer proposed that we increase the subscription fee for Life membership from 5 to 6, and for 1 year membership from 3 to 3.50, with the cost of upgrading from 1 year to Life becoming 2.50. Alex Tingle pointed out that Life membershiphad costed 5 for the past 3 years, indicating that maybe it was time for us to catch up with inflation. Quinton Carroll wondered how many 1 year members actually bothered to upgrade. In answer to this, the figure of "a few" was pulled out of a hat. A vote was called on the proposal, the result of which was For 22 Against 0 Abstentions 1 The proposal to increase the subscription fee was therefore handsomely carried. 4.Motion to Change the Society's Name to the Cambridge University R|e-Playing Society. This motion, to amend the Constitution to the above effect, wasproposed by the President and seconded by Anthony Grocock. Quinton asked whether if we changed the name, would a new T-shirt be made up? The President answered "Yes", and went on to explain the reasoning behind the motion, which basically boiled down to the fact that it was misleading (very few of our mgmbers actually play D&D), and put people off from joining, as witnessed by anyone who had ever manned our stall at the Societies Fair. Dave Prince also pointed out that when he mentioned the Society at interviews he got a lot of funny looks. Matt Fitzgerald observed that most societies whych are named after a specific game, are s?named because they only play that one game. A vote was called, the result of which was For 21 Against 2 Abstentions 1 The motion was overwhelmingly carried, gaining the 2/3 majority required to amend the constitution. The President then admitted that in anticipatin of this result, we had actually sent in the Society's entry for the next year's CUSU Handbook under the new name. Quinton tut-tutted and said that this was well dodgy. Jane Crofts agreed. We hurriedly moved on to the next business. 5. Elections Only two posts were contested - President and External Officer - and despite the Secretary's attempts to make a complete hash of the electoral procedure, the United Nations observers declared the voting to be largely free and fair. Candidates for President were Chris Carr and Pete Moore. Chris made a speech. Pete made a speech. Becky Teed asked if Chris would be able to guarantee that he would be able to give up enough of his other commitments to run the Society effectively. Chris said "Yes". A secret ballot was held. Chris won. Candidates for External Officer were Jane Crofts and David Wright. Dave made a speech. Jane made a speech. Quinton asked if either of the candidates could give any guarantee that a mini-convention would be organised and held in Cambridge. The President butted in to point out that the Oxford University Role-Playing Society had originally mooted the idea as a joint venture. Dave pointed out that even with Oxford participating, it would be only be practical to hold one such event per year. Jane thought that a 1 day convention in the first term could help pull in new members. Another secret ballot was held. Jane won. The result of the Elections was that the Committee for 1992 -93 was Chris Carr - President Stephen Balchin - Vice-President Iain Walker - Secretary Anthony Grocock - Junior Treasurer Chris Watts - Assistant Secretary Jane Crofts - External Officer Stephen Balchin, Iain Walker, Anthony Grocock and Chris Watts were elected unopposed. 6. Any Other Business Ed Carter declared that there would be strawberries and cream and alcohol in his room after the punt party. Matt Fitzgerald proposed a vote of thanks to the outgoing Committee. This was seconded by Qui~ton. A vote was taken, and it was carried unanimously. The President then declared the meeting closed on the grounds that it was time to get some beers in. Everybody then buggered off to the Mill.