The 1996 Annual General Meeting
As in previous years, our Annual General Meeting drew a large attendance.
The business was swiftly accomplished, with the approval of the annual
reports and the presentation of the slate of candidates for office during
1996 by Dr. Michael Cooper, acting as temporary president, giving the composition
of the new Council.
Mr. Sioris then resumed the floor and began by thanking his colleagues on
the Council for their support, and all the members, both those attending
the meetings and those unable to attend, for their continued maintenance
of the Society. He particularly expressed our thanks to Miss Miyoko Ito,
our retired office secretary, who had been specially invited for the occasion.
He expressed our delight at being able to have Imperial patrons for the
first time in our history, in the persons of T.I.H. Prince and Princess
Takamado. Speaking for the Council, he voiced a need for more input from
the membership. He then went on to express the sympathy of all of us for
Dr. Jason Roussos in his present illness and our hope for his recovery.
Finally he conveyed the best wishes of all of us to Fr. Neal Lawrence, who
was attending the meeting on the actual day of his 88th ("beiju")
birthday; a concrete expression of our congratulations would be found later
in the specially flavoured rice balls among the refreshments.
Adapted
from "The Asiatic Society of Japan Bulletin No. 2", February 1996,
compiled by Hugh Wilkinson.
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