THAME SPORTS CLUB
NAMING OF THE CLUB BAR ON AUGUST 2ND 2024
Gordon Taylor gave a brief speech, which is detailed below, for the formal naming of the club bar.
Hello everyone. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Gordon Taylor , vice chair of the Bowls Club and currently chair of Thame Sports Club Management Committee. The Sports Club embraces the playing sections with responsibility for maintaining the site and the pavilion. I have been chair since the Annual General Meeting in December 2023 when there was a discussion and agreement that there should be recognition of the late Peter Bozier’s contribution to the pavilion rebuild project. At the time of the rebuild , Peter was chair of the Sports Club Management Committee and gave many hours of his time to preparing and submitting applications for grants from local authorities and sports bodies to enable the rebuild project to proceed – one notable example being an application to South Oxfordshire District Council which resulted in them making a grant of £240,000. This represented a significant proportion of the total grants received. Peter’s contribution to the rebuild programme has been described to me by one or two long standing tennis members who knew Peter well as “ truly stupendous “ and a “ sterling effort”.
Consequently at the 2023 Annual General Meeting, it was decided unanimously that the Sports Club bar should be named “ Bozier’s Bar” in Peter’s memory. As often happens with these projects, it has taken longer to complete than I would have wanted but at last all is ready and I am delighted to invite John Ansell, a long standing tennis member, to formally name the bar.
Thank you
