AFVOA Newletters of Year 2010

Page 17 of 50 OK. Enough of that. Let us now spend a few brief moments for ourselves. The last BiMonthly Meeting which was a Cultural Meet was enjoyed by all present. The organizers and performers do deserve our appreciations. Next, it has been decided during the last Executive Committee Meeting that as a matter of standardizing our procedures BiMonthly meetings will be held on the Third Sunday of the month in which it is due. Thus our next meeting will be on Sunday, 16 May 2010 at the same venue. Please send in your confirmations. More than that BE THERE! A Special Request to Members: In case you are changing your address, phone / cell number or your e-mail ID please do let us know so that we can update your i f ti From the (President’s Desk Maj Gen KS Chattaraman has since proceeded to the United States. The President, AFVOA, will be away for approximately six months. During this period, Brig Mohan Thomas, the Vice President will officiate as President, AFVOA. The much awaited Cultural Meet was held on 21 March 2010. Members and their families were privileged to listen to songs of yester-years. Many Veterans and their spouses met the Artists after the programme and conveyed their appreciation. A permanent stage is a necessity for organizing entertainment programmes. If a permanent stage having dimensions 40’ x 30’ x 2’6” is constructed in PGEP, it will save a lot of effort for erecting temporary structures. Annual General Body Meeting proposed to be held in May will now be held in July 2010. This would facilitate finalization of Accounts and the mandatory audit by the Chartered Accountant. Adequate time would also be available to send notice for conduct of Annual General Body Meeting. Audited accounts will be sent to all members in June 2010. It has been decided in the last Executive Committee Meeting that Bi-monthly Meetings will be held on the third Sunday of May, July, September, November and March each year. The Annual Picnic will be held on the first Sunday of January, each year. Thus our next meeting will be held on 16 May 2010. Members without waiting for the News Letter can now plan to attend the Bi-monthly Meetings / Picnic. Going through a pocket size Booklet printed in 1940, I am amazed that so many of the hints given in the Booklet are relevant today, even though Six Decades have gone by. The Booklet titled “THOU SHALL NOT”, was printed in 1940 by Gale & Polden Limited, Aldershot, Great Britain. Hints given in the Booklet are listed at Appendix to this News Letter. IMA/OTA and other Institutions of the Navy and Air Force may consider issue of similar hints to newly Commissioned Officers, duly incorporating changes to suit the present day environment. MEETING GONE BY The Bi-Monthly Meeting of Mar 2010 was initially scheduled to be held during the day. Keeping in view the requirement of the artists, the Executive Committee during its meeting held on 13 Mar decided to have the programme in the evening. All members were contacted on telephone / via email and informed about the change in timings. The Executive Committee also decided that the Offg GOC, Heads of Arms / Services and PSOs of Area HQ, DDGs – Emb HQ, NCC, Retg, CE Zone, NOIC and AOC IAF Stn tambaram – will be invited. All invitees who were in station on 21 Mar