The 1930's
[Extracts taken from the Boat Club Minute Book]
Thursday, 3rd December, 1936
The second ordinary general meeting was not held on Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 2pm
on the barge. There was consequently no mention of anything, and the meeting
did not stand adjourned at 2.30pm. It is therefore still in a state of
nebulous existence sine die, and will need measures extraordinary to
cope with it.
Tuesday, 19th January, 1937
The minutes of the previous meeting were requested, read, and being
misunderstood, shelved, so that the meeting of Dec. 3rd is still unconcluded.
Searching blindly for something concrete, the Captain and meeting requested the
minutes of the meeting before the previous nebulous one, which, being read,
discovered and confessed a lamentable lack of knowledge of eighteenth century
satire on the part of all save the Secretary.
The Captain passed on to exhortations. Oarsmen were not to be egotistic,
nor hasty-tempered, nor make nasty remarks, e.g., `Bother this contaminated
bow-side', nor cast aspersions on the ancestry and probable descendants of
other Hon. Members upon no more proof of provocation than personal discomfort.
Photo:
St Catherine's (far side)
defeating Hertford College in the Junior
Eights event of the
1933 Marlow Regatta.
Photo courtesy of Stacy Colman (Queen's)
who coached the St Catherine's crew.
Crew:
V. Hanson (bow),
P. B. Smith,
J. L. Tedbury,
L. J. Goldsworthy,
J. C. Corby,
H. C. A. Thomas,
R. M. Lee,
J. L. Gibson (str),
H. S. Matthews (cox)