By Waldo Redekop – Ontario District Historian
The chairmen of the district committees were as follows.
Awards – Claude Botting
Contest and Judging – Maynard Margison
Credentials – Jim Round
District Directory Editor and Film Librarian – Dave Cairns
Ethics – Johnny Cairns
Finance – Johnny Cairns
History and Archives – Mel Johnson
Jewellery and Records – R.E. Bridgman
Laws and Regulations – Sid Pyper
Logopedics Fund – George Shields
Liaison Officer – District Conventions – John Parkinson
Membership – Will Swindall
Nominating – Johnny Cairns
Onta-Fame Trustees – Ed McKay
Onta-Fame Ways and Means – Hugh Palmer
Photographer – Gord Leon
District P.R.O.B.E Committee – Bert Purdy
Stationery – Tony Malcolm
A.P.O.C President – Peter Hay
A.P.O.C. Secretary – Bill Sexton
Extension – Elmer Down
Future Convention and Contest Dates
1968 – April 19-21 – Oshawa
1968 – November 1-3 – East York
1969 – April 18-20 – Bid required
1969 – October 24-26 – St.Catharines (held in Niagara Falls)
1970 – April 17-20 – Bid required
1972 – Spring (Kitchener-Waterloo presented a firm bid)
Coming Events – 1968
Jan 12-14 – Seneca Land-Ontario C.O.T.S., Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Apr 19-21 – Horseless Carriage Convention – Oshawa
June 26-29 – International 30th Annual Convention – Pittsburgh, P.A.
Nov 1-3 – Fall Convention – East York – Royal York Hotel, Toronto.
Century Club Awards
London Chapter in 1967 had 109 members. This is the first time such an award was won by an Ontario Chapter and was London’s Centennial Project.
The Chord Jammers
Tenor – Walter Coe, Lead – Dick Fincham
Bari – Bill Ellis, Bass – Bob Davis.