The Foundation
SUCC Foundation Newsletter December 2008
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SUCC Foundation Newsletter No.2 2007/2008
The Club 2007-08
For the first time in the Club’s long history, all six Grades participated in the Finals Series and we celebrated two Premierships at the Annual Dinner in April. 2nd Grade, Runners-up in 2006/07, were increasingly dominant throughout this season’s finals series and conclusively defeated Bankstown in the Final at Hurstville Oval.
Captained again by David Butchart, winner of the Skipper Morris Trophy for the Outstanding Clubman of the Season, 2nd Grade won the Albert Cup for the first time since Damon Ridley’s team of 1979/80 won the Premiership after a memorably pulsating Final.
In the Finals series, Adam Theobald was in exquisite form, scoring over 300 runs in the semi-final and Final alone, and Club Coach, Matthew Phelps, who played the second part of the season, made a measured and decisive century in the Final.
A youthful 6th Grade side, captained by 19 year old Andrew Rhodes, also won their Final conclusively. Many of this side were in their first season with the Club and they will play significant roles in higher grades in coming seasons.
Five of the Club’s players represented NSW in a memorable season when our State won the Pura Cup. Stuart Clark and Stuart MacGill returned from Australian duties before joining the Australian side in the West Indies, and, during the season, Mark Cameron, Eddie Cowan and Greg Mail played important roles.
COMMUNICATION
Mailing these Newsletters is an expensive, time-consuming and slightly out-of-date method of communication.
Thus, it is our intention to email these Newsletters on a more regular basis from next season onwards.
To do this, we need your email address!
Could you email Geoff de Mesquita, the Club’s Executive Officer and Secretary to the Foundation with your email address and those of any other former Club members or Foundation Members whom you know.
g.demesquita@sport.usyd.edu.au
From late 2008, we may be able to move into the 21st Century and keep our members much better informed.
Requiescat In Pace
Sincere condolences are expressed to the families of the following Club Members who have died during the season. Obituaries will appear in this season’s Annual Report:
Trevor Pearson SUCC 1937-38 Foundation Member
Harry Abbott SUCC 1945-48
Membership of the Foundation
We have currently 324 members in the various categories and I am eternally grateful for their generosity and continued interest in the Club.
BUT……..we always need more.
A ‘Securing Our Future’ form is attached. Your contribution and your encouragement for other past players and supporters to join the Foundation will keep the Club vibrant and help it set the standards throughout the 21st Century.
$20,000 to become a Patron of the Foundation
$10,000 to become a Trustee
$2,500 to become a Life Member
$1,000 to become a Member
Any other amount to become a Subscriber
Where Does the Money Go?
- To scholarships that have enabled some of Sydney’s most gifted young players to combine cricket and study;
- To support for the Club’s overseas tours of 1993, 1997, 2002 and 2004/05. The possibility of the Club touring England again in 2009 will attract further support from the Foundation;
- To support for Undergraduates to participate in Intervarsity Tours;
- To the Club to help upgrade its facilities (pitch covers, scoreboards, practice pitches, fairway mowers);
- To the Coaching and Administrative sections of the Club.
The Foundation capital is never spent.
Only the interest and dividends received are spent.
Your donation will work for the Club in perpetuity.
Your donation is tax deductible.
Foundation Executive
The Foundation’s new executive team for 2008/9 is:
Chairman - Phil Logan
Treasurer – Les Carrington
Secretary – Geoff de Mesquita
Members in the News
Dr. Ross Richards was featured in the ‘Sydney Alumni News’ of Autumn 2008.
The brief biography mentioned that Ross was a Fulbright Scholar in 1958 and spent 20 years in NSW Agriculture Biology Branch (1955-74) and 20 years in Defence Science and Technology and Defence Food advisor in Tasmania until retirement in 1994. Married to Patricia for 52 years with 3 daughters: Penelope, deputy Ambassador to Japan and China; Lisa, a Vet; and Naomi, a solicitor.
Ross played for the Club for 17 seasons (1949-1966) and has been a valuable and loyal member of the Foundation since the 1990’s.
Nick Dunford was featured in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ of February 13th, 2008.
Nick, who has been playing with the Club since 2001, has taken over 150 wickets in that time and contributed significantly to the successes of the side.
His studies have seen him recently graduate with an Honours degree in Commerce, but he will put that career on hold for the next 6 months while he undertakes a playing contract with Birmingham in sunny England’s northern parts.
Nick was full of praise for his course as one which produces so many open doors with its understanding of accounting, economics and finance.
We wish him well in his career, both in Cricket and Commerce.
Many thanks for your continued support
James Rodgers
Acting Chairman
SUCC Foundation
July 2008
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