wish to be President. A very quiet, hard working man. He retired after some years.
Another early member was Charlie Dolman, who was a florist in Emerson Park. He was never President, although he was in the Club quite a long time. He lived in Parkstone Avenue. He had a nice bowls lawn and we used to play the Canon’s Cup on his lawn. Charlie eventually moved away.
Frank Luff was another one who was very active in the Club. He was Chairman of the Community Service and that was a very busy committee. All our meetings were held in his house.
Ted Crowe was the proprietor of the garage in Billet Lane, Hornchurch. I knew him for many years and so did Stan Gunary. Ted also died within the next 10 years.
Frank Lines had a radio shop in Hornchurch. He was a very useful member, but left us after a few years and did not become President. Cyril Caufield, headmaster of the Secondary School in Drury Falls, was useful during the time of the careers exhibitions at the school. Bill Occomore came with him. He was a school headmaster.
Another member who came in during the early years was Reverend Doug Young. He was a minister at the Congregational Church in Emerson Park. He was a very active member on the Community Service. He told us that a lot of the foreign nurses at Harold Wood Hospital had nothing to do in the evening and it was an odd place to get landed in. So he suggested that we start a Club for them and we could have his church hall for a meeting place. We took up his suggestion, and we used to collect the nurses and take them to the hall. It seemed very successful, but it was a lot to do getting transport arranged. The object of the Rotary was to get something like this on its feet and then get out, but this was a venture that never really got going. Doug moved and the Club for the foreign nurses folded.
The Year Before I Was President
During Gibb’s year I had been Senior Vice-President. It was 1954 and this was leading up to the golden jubilee year of Rotary. I was fortunate to get this year. Looking back it made me think of the tremendous changes in those last nine years. From the original membership a number had left, but, in spite of this, the Club was over 40 members, so we had taken on a number of
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