The 1930's

Extract from Chapter VII of A History of St Catherine's Rowing 1875-1999

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[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)