Friday, 29‖ February was a day of emotional contrasts. My morning was spent in a mood of apprehension about how our Fun Music Night would be received. With about 130 people due to at- tend I knew we had covered our costs but it seemed to be a tall order to please them all On the afternoon Jim Haines, Lew Bek- kers, Ray Hare, Brian Taffs, Norman El- lenby and I met at the New Windmill to set it up for the evening. I had little idea as to how to set out the tables but I was soon put right by my colleagues and what turned out to be a most successful arrangement was set out. As the doors of the hall opened for the evening Jim Haines took up station to check the tickets and take the money from those who had arranged to pay on the night. Later some of the ladies, who had paid on entrance re- marked on what a charming man we had on the door. In the regrettable absence of our President I took it upon myself to open the proceed- ings. I had previously been asked which charity we Ro- tarians were supporting. I explained to the audience that we didn‘t have a nominated charity but in Rotary we sometimes received calls for help and very worthy causes,
It was explained that because of the urgency of the help that was needed we could not always get the money out of our Charity Fund quickly enough so we tried to keep some funds available in our own Club Account so that we could respond with the speed
cuits which was greatly ap- preciated by many. The Raffle for the evening was brilliantly organized by Norman and Brian and in the short second interval they ran the slickest raffle draw any- one could wish to see. To everyone‘s regret came the last item of the evening. The Band played ‗When The Saints Come Marching In‖ and the dance floor was quickly filled. After I had wound up the evening a member of the Band handed me a contribution to our funds and said how much they had en- joyed the evening.
required. Therefore any money we raised for the eve- ning would help us in this respect. Then I introduced the Hugh Rainey Jazz Band. From their very first notes it was obvious that we were in for a really good evening. The Band comprises eight spectacularly accomplished musicians who very quickly have their audience‘s feet tapping. Their repertoire in- cludes jazz, Dixieland and popular music, sometimes with excellent vocals, and they enjoy their audience dancing. This latter was led by our distinguished Treas- urer, Daphne with her hus- band, Ken and lots of people were pleased to join in. In the first interval Brian and Jan went behind the counter to serve tea or coffee and bis-
Then many other people ap- proached me to say ‗thank you for a wonderful evening‖ and asked to be told when we have another one. Some said that they had always thought of Rotarians to be rather stuffy but they didn‘t now. On the following morning I was inundated with telephone calls in similar vein. On Saturday morning Daphne phoned me to say that we had raised £750 and my apprehension of the pre- vious morning transformed into pleasure and apprecia- tion for all the help I had from our members in proving that Friday night could be Music Night Alan Booty.
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