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From Your Editor: Best Wishes for the New Year (of the Dog)

I would like to wish a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all fellow members and their families.

This is our very first e-newsletter. Members without a known e-mail address will be contacted by phone by me to seek out alternative ways of delivering the newsletter to them, and to inform them of the upcoming meeting.

After an extended break from ASoN activities, I found it rough to get going again. That is why there was no January newsletter. But that is not why I did not organize an Opera House concert for members. Unlike in the last 10 years, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra did not offer an affordable concert of light classical music to kick off the new season. Instead, the SSO scheduled a “gala concert” of Viennese music and charged up to $120 per ticket. I reckon that the SSO is pricing itself out of our market.

The ASoN Committee did meet 3 times since the Christmas Party, mainly for more partying and “team bonding”. We did stay sober long enough to accomplish two important objectives:

Program activities for our month-end meetings at Haberfield. (See my Future Meetings column below.)
Find a suitably “young” replacement on the Committee for John Murt, who has relocated to Queensland. (See Jeff Grey’s profile of the new Committee member in the March newsletter.)

After such a long break, I really look forward to seeing and talking to fellow members again at the upcoming meeting on 26/2. I am sure that most of you feel the same way and the noise level in the Michael Maher Room will likely be high. But please be forewarned that our One-Man Noise Reduction Unit, a.k.a. Jeff Grey, will be on-hand with a big net to physically relocate any member who dares to make noise during music to the kitchen.

Justin Lam

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