2010 Annual General Meeting

President's Report

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A Power of service

GTC President recognised

Goldfields Tennis Club president Shane Power was last night recognised for his role in putting Kalgoorlie-Boulder on the international tennis map.

A leading player in the establishment of the Gold Fields St Ives Tennis International in 2007, Power was the recipient of the Service to Sport award at the Goldfields Sports Star of the Year awards presentation.

The tournament's fourth edition came to an end last Sunday and was hailed a major success, which follows previous years when Australian household tennis names Casey Dellacqua (2007) and former world N^o 8 Alicia Molik (2009) emerged as the women's singles champions.

Power, who has been president since 2005, was also influential during his time on the committee in ensuring the club made the move from grass to hard courts and established enhanced lighting for night games.

Kalgoorlie Miner, Saturday November 13^th 2010

2010 Annual General Meeting

Saturday 20^th November 2010

The annual general meeting of the Goldfields Tennis Club will be held at the Marshall Street club rooms commencing at 2:00pm sharp.

Please make an effort to attend and support your club at this meeting.

Enquiries to club president Shane Power (0409-452-545) or club secretary Marian Allen (0438-930-167).

GOLDFIELDS TENNIS REUNION

23rd to 25th April 2010

The Goldfields Tennis Club is hosting a Goldfields Tennis Reunion in Kalgoorlie- Boulder over the ANZAC long weekend from the 23^rd - 25^th April 2010. The reunion is open to any person who has been or currently is a member of any of the tennis clubs in the Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kambalda and Coolgardie regions. The reunion Committee led by Life Members Neville Hatton, Vicki Eaton and Merle Gaby has compiled a database of more than 800 names and is now trying to locate the addresses and contact details for more than four hundred of those names.

Tennis has a long history on the Goldfields dating back to the 1930s with the formation of the Eastern Goldfields Lawn Tennis Association in 1931. At one stage there was more than a dozen tennis clubs in the local association not including private tennis courts located on the mining leases of companies operating on the Golden Mile.

The sport was particularly strong in the post war years and produced many outstanding male and female players in that era including Laurie Quan, Les Grafton, Alan Hicks, Ted and Dick Hamilton, Rob and Rick Kilderry, Rudi and D'Orsogna and Dawson Hamilton. Amongst the ladies Jan Blackburne, Lorraine and Gwenda Don, Margaret Stewart and Lillian Cartledge all represented the State in the Wilson Cup.

Since the 1970s the region has generated junior players of the calibre of Des Ward, Ashley and Justin Johns, and more recently Astrid Kanther, Brittany Sheed and James Kirkland. Other players of the calibre o Mal and Geoff Hodsdon, Helen Muir and Krista Davidson have lived in the region.

In the late 1970s the remaining local clubs relocated to the existing complex in Marshall Street, Kalgoorlie. For more than twenty five years the playing surface was grass before the courts were redeveloped in 2004 to construct eighteen hard courts, twelve with lights.

With the redevelopment, the Goldfields Tennis Club was inaugurated. The club currently has a membership of one hundred and thirty players and offers tennis programs for players of all ages and ability.

The reunion committee has planned a full weekend of activities to players to meet old friends, teammates and rivals to relive the memories, duels and triumphs of days gone by. The itinerary includes a reunion function, social tennis, bus tour and an afternoon at the KBRCs ANZAC Day race meeting.

For more information please contact any of the following Committee Members, Merle Gaby, 90931627 (H), Mal Hodsdon 90212751 (W), Neville Hatton 90211738 (H), Vicki Eaton 90213276 (H) or Shane Power 90917147 (H).