HENLEY Round Table launched its 50th anniversary celebrations with a special inauguration dinner at the Red Lion Hotel.
Some 50 current and past Table members, including three of those who had founded the club in 1958, joined together to celebrate the continuing success of a social and charitable club that has become something of an institution in the town.
“The Red Lion was the venue for the inaugural Round Table dinner back in May 1958, so it was fitting that we celebrated the launch of our 50th birthday celebrations in the very same room in which our club was launched,” said Tim Haveron Jones, chairman.
“We were especially pleased that, of our four surviving founder members, no fewer than three were able to join us for a very special evening.”
Founder member Mr. Errol Facy explained how the Henley Table had been formed by a group of young men who wanted to start a club for like-minded colleagues to meet, socialise and raise money for local causes.
Together with Vic Hutchings and John Yeats, the other founder members present at the dinner, he talked about the early days and expressed the hope that the club would continue for another 50 years.
“To hear Errol, Vic and John talk about the foundation of our club, it was as though it happened yesterday,” added Mr. Haveron Jones.
“We have been very lucky recently to have found the original Table minute book and it is uncanny how the causes for which the club raised money in the 1950s and 1960s find a parallel today. The minutes are like a social e_SClBrecord for Henley and they make fascinating reading.”
There will be a number of events this year to commemorate the 50th birthday. These will culminate toward the end of the year, with the special 50th birthday party fireworks event on November 1st, and the club’s 50th charter function celebration on November 29th.
Published on 01 June 2008
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