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Ad Hoc Group recommends
150th season celebrations

In connection with the Being mindful of the last Also discussed at length was
proposals for celebrations time such a significant event the matter of the design of a
of the Club’s 150th in the Club’s history was suitable logo to be used, with
anniversary in 2019 an observed, back in 1969, the different designs being needed
ad hoc group has been Centenary Year, the group for such diverse purposes as
formed in order to make looked at the precedents of club clothing and kit, trophies,
proposals to the Executive club history and considered and the website. Peter Rogers
Committee on how the what would be fitting events and other club members with
club may wish to celebrate to mark this landmark. Since graphic design skills would be
the 150th anniversary. the Centenary celebrations consulted on this.
The group considered such extended for a whole year Being aware of the
matters that covered a full from April 1969 to March importance of club history
range of activities which 1970 it was proposed that in organising a program of
could form the structure of the 150th season should anniversary celebrations,
a season lasting one year run from the AGM in the group recognised both
and through its spokesman, March 2019 through to the the existence of an extensive
Past President Chris following year’s AGM. Such a published club history,
Haines presented period would coincidentally originally produced by D.K.
its proposals to the include the quadrenniel club Saunders and A.J. Weeks-
Executive Committee photograph which would be Pearson in 1969 for the club
at its November 2015 due in 2020. centenary, its subsequent
meeting. update to 1989 by Tony
Weeks-Pearson and Peter

Baigent, and
the as yet
unfulfilled
need for
a further
update to take
it up to the
150th season.
Such an update
could be called
‘Changing Times
– The History
of Blackheath &
Bromley Harriers
AC from 1989
to 2019’. Such an
undertaking would
of course require a
new generation of
appropriate researchers
and authors with the