AFVOA Newletters of Year 2002

Page 65 of 84 17. The next meeting of the Association will be held at the normal venue i.e. the Youth Hostel. The details of the Meet are as follows: Date: Sunday, the 06 th October 2002 Venue: Youth Hostel, Indira Nagar. Time of Assembly: 1800 hrs 18. The organizing committee requests members to phone in their confirmations to one of the following, positively by Wednesday, the 02 nd October 2002, (Gandhi Jayanthi) so as to enable adequate seating and catering arrangements: Col A Krishnaswami VrC, VSM** 491 0290 Wg Cdr ME Muthu 441 6289 Wg Cdr Ravi Mani 491 6705 Cdr S R Prasad 536 4008 Brig VA Subramanyam 491 7446 Col N Viswanathan 433 6659 19. A nominal amount of Rs. 50/- per head is being requested as contribution to defray part of the expenses on account of incidentals and catering. The amount may please be sent in advance to Col A Krishnaswami, VrC, VSM**. A1/11/3, GOCH Colony, 23 rd Cross Street, Besant Nagar, Chennai – 6 00 090. 20. At this point, it is worth sharing with all of you, certain matters concerning the catering arrangements. In spite of the fact, that in every Newsletter, members are requested to confirm their attendance, generally, very few members do so. The Committee has perforce no option but to order food on the basis of guestimates. This has its inherent drawbacks. These being, that on occasions, quite a few members who had confirmed their coming had to go without anything, as they went late to the counter. On other occasions, it was found that a few members “forgot” to pay for the refreshments that they consumed. At other times, the caterer had to recycle plates, - as the numbers catered for were less than the actual turn out - and as such correct figures of numbers being paid for went awry. During the last meeting, though 140 confirmations were received, 179 actually turned up, and thus caused shortages, resulting in a number of persons going without food - having paid. 21. In order to overcome the above, it is proposed to issue coupons for the refreshments. This will ensure that the caterer is paid only on the number of coupons that he collects. This proposal is planned to be brought into effect from the Meeting to be held in December this year. In case members have any better suggestions to offer they are welcome to forward the same at the earliest. For Your Information Please! If the word seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ~ Lucy Larcom 22. Helpage India honoured Maj Gen Aban Naidu, PVSM, AVSM , for services to the country, during a seminar on “Healthy Aging”, on 13 th Aug 2002. 23. Maj Gen R Karthikeyan Ramanathan, (Retd.) and Cmde. S. Sundaram (Retd) have been nominated by the Government of Tamil Nadu, to serve as non-official members in the Committee for the Administration of the Amalgamated Funds for the period upto 31 Dec 2003, vide GO.Ms. No.593, Public (Ex-ser) Dept.Dt.26.4.02.