[modeleng] Re: Longest continuous membership.

Congratulations to John on his outstanding club membership time and 
industriousness. Being busy at work you like, and at hobbies like model 
engineering, certainly seems to keep people young.

Cheers Jeff Dayman
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phill Smith" <steam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:58 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Longest continuous membership.


> G'Day Gents,
>
> Last night at my club meeting (Society of Model & Experimental Engineers,
> Western Australia), It was discovered that one of our member's, John 
> Street,
> has been a member for the last 74 years without a break!
> John joined the society at 14, I believe (if my memory is working
> correctly). To me, this is simply astounding!!!
> It has to be a record. This is REAL letter from the Queen, type stuff. A 
> far
> better reason than simply turning 100!!!!
> The gentleman, still (!) runs his own highly sucessful toolmaking 
> business,
> complete with CNC machinery. With his present state of good health, John 
> is
> sure to be with us for a few more years yet. Amazingly, his present 
> project
> is a 3.5" gauge loco, that he admitts he will never finish. Unfortunately,
> nobody else will be able to finish it to the same standard, unless they 
> have
> access to a workshop equiped like his toolmaking premises. The accuarcy to
> detail is prefect. John uses EDM to produce replica castings of every item
> that was originally cast, and even from the same materials as the 
> originals.
> Everyone considers me to be a perfectionist, but I pale in comparison to
> John.
>
>
> Our club started in (we think) 1929, but the early records are all in the
> State Library, and therefore someone has to go in and look them up, to
> confirm the actual date. Unfortunately our society is dying...... I think 
> we
> are down to about 8 members, with me being the youngest by about 15
> years...... I'm the spring chicken at 41.
> I feel our lack of membership is due to NOT having a railway track. 40
> something years ago, the club split into those who wanted a miniature
> railway, and thse who didn't. Some remained mambers of both clubs, while 
> the
> majority went one way or the other.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phill.
>
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