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1984 No. 1 Newsletter

President: R.J.C. (Dick) Forbes

Happy New Year to you all. The purpose of this newsletter is to advise you of the winners of the various contests conducted by the Association during 1983, to advise you of the date for the 1984 Annual General Meeting and to seek your assistance to ensure that 1984 gets off to a good start and that the problems which we struck during 1983 are not repeated.

1983 Contests

The following were the winners of the various trophies awarded during 1983:

Athenaeum Trophy: Winner Senior Debating Contests - Paremoremo Maximum Security Prison
Irvine Cup: Best Speaker in Athenaeum Final - Dick Forbes
Robinson Cup: Winner of Intermediate Debating Contest - Paremoremo Maximum Security Prison
Sir John Allum Cup: Best Speaker in Robinson Final - not awarded as trophy mislaid - Can anyone assist as to its whereabouts ?
Presidents' Cup: Impromptu Debating - Community Speakers
Dick Champion Cup: Impromptu Speaking - Brian Morris
Herald Award: Public Speaking Contest - David Shapcott

Lessons from 1983

Undoubtedly a major effort must be made in 1984 to improve communications. Our address lists are in need of updating. Among the attachments to this Newsletter you will find a slip to be completed by you either on your own behalf if you are an Associate Member or on your Club's behalf if an Affiliate Member. Please all of youcompleted the slip in full. This will enable us to ensure that our records are correct and that Newsletters and other communications reach you without delay.

1984 Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting for 1984 will be held at 8.00pm on Monday, 13th February, 1984 at the Sandringham Baptist Church Hall on the corner of Mt.Albert Road and Duncan Avenue. A Notice of the Meeting is enclosed. Our constitution requires that notice of any special business to be conducted at the Meeting must be forwarded to all Members not less than 14 days before the date of the Meeting. Anyone wishing to have special business considered at the Annual General Meeting should forward notice of that proposed busines to be received by the writer not later than Friday, 27th January, 1984 so that notice of the business may be posted to all Members on Saturday, 28th January, 1984.

Officers to be elected at that Meeting are:

Patron
President
Vice Presidents (3)
Secretary
Treasurer
Executive Members (5)

Notice of nominations need not be given prior to the Meeting.

Each affiliated Club may appoint in writing two representatives to act on its behalf at the A.G.M.

Programme for 1984

We hope that 1984 Annual General meeting will be well attended and that ideas can be discussed for the programme for 1984. In recent years the programme has been very full in the period from late September to early November. The outgoing Executive is of the view that the Prepared Debate Contests should commence earlier in the year and that the Herald Public Speaking Contest and Dick Champion Impromptu Speaking Contest could also be brought forward. The outgoing Executive puts forward the following as a programme for discussion for 1984:

24.2.84: Entries for Athenaeum, Robinson and Novice Debates close
2.3.84: Draws for Athenaeum and Robinson Debates circulated
Early March, 1984: Impromptu Debating Contest
22.3.84: Festival Debate
Late March, 1984: First Round of Athenaeum and Robinson Debates
Early April, 1984: Auckland team compete against Wellington team for Rostrum Rose Bowl
June/July, 1984: Herald Public Speaking Contest and Dick Champion Impromptu Speaking Contest
September, 1984: Finals of Athenaeum and Robinson Debates
October, 1984: Final of Novice Debate
November, 1984: Norwood Debating and Public Speaking Contests at Wanganui

We should also give thought to adjudication and other seminars at appropriate times during the year.

Your views are welcome. Please bring them to the Annual General Meeting.

Adjudicators

We are most grateful to our Adjudicators for the time and effort which they put into the work they do. It is a thankless task which seldom earns them the credit they deserve. With departures from the city and pressures of other obligations we find that an ever decreasing number of willing adjudicators carry the burden for the Association. If you would like to be an adjudicator or if you know of persons qualified to act as adjudicators please advise us - preferably in writing together with contact addresses and telephone numbers. So that we can ensure that our records are up to date would all present adjudicators please complete the attached slip and return it to the writer.

Entries for 1984 Debating Contests

Please give consideration to the Contests which you and your Club will wish to enter this year. Entry forms will be available at the Annual General Meeting and must be returned no later than 24th February 1984.

The outgoing Executive is anxious that 1984 get off to a good start. You can assist yourselves and the incoming Executive by being present at the Annual General meeting and giving all the benefit of your ideas and by completing the attached slips and returning them without delay.

R.J.C. Forbes
President

ADA, PO Box 3233, Auckland Central, New Zealand Ph +64-9-6252847 Fax +64-9-6252851 Mobile +64-21-962783 Email to president@ada.org.nz

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