| IF YOU WEREN'T ONE OF THE 26 MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED SIHR'S 13TH ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING
IN KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MAY 21-22, YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THESE HIGHLIGHTS:
1. Secretary Len Koytylo, who has been SIHR's CEO since the head office
moved from Kingston to Toronto, was elected president for a two-year term.
Ernie Fitzsimmson, after five years as president, was elected secretary.
2. Ed Grenda, one of the co-founders and former secretary, who was co-host
of the Kingston meeting, was elected Executive Vice-President.
3. Montreal will host the May, 2005 AGM, on invitation of Earl (The Pearl)
Zukerman, VP Quebec. Invitations are invited to host the Fall 2005 meeting.
4.Membership dues were increased from $25 to $30 (Cdn.) and $20 to $25
(U.S.) effective Jan. 1, 2005.
5. A new version of membership cards--thanks to the Pearl--was produced and
will be available on request to the Toronto office.
6. Ron Leger, who continued his tradition of providing fascinting items for
Friday's Show and Tell session and distributed many Moncton programs, was
restored as Vice-President Atlantic.
7. Paul Bruno was re-elected treasurer and reported 110 memberships paid to
date. The roster lists 137 Canadian members, 78 Americans and 10 others
throughout the world.
8. Bill Sproule of Houghton and Jerry Springer of Marquette, gave us an
attractive overview of the Pro Hockey Centennial scheduled for Michigan's Copper
Country Sept. 23-26, 2004, with SIHR's fall meeting as an important segment.
Gordie Howe and the Detroit Red Wings Alumni will be featured at the Saturday
night game as MacInnes Arena. Tickets will be available in June. For more info
check out www.cchockeyhistory.org
9. Special Kingston guests Ron Plumb and Jim Dorey, both of whom played in
the NHL and WHA, gave highly entertaining and informative presentations,
including hilarious new versions of the infamous rain of pucks at the inaugural
game of the Philadelphia Blazers in 1972. Ernie Fitzsimmons presented both with
their personal records as gleaned from the SIHR website.
10. Joseph Nieforth of Toronto, co-author of Deceptions and Doublecross with
Californian Morey Holzman, and contributor to our website, was announced as
recipient of the Brian McFarlane Award for outstanding research and writing. Len
Kotylo received the award and will re-present it.
11. Five well-prepared and professionally presented papers, three of them
illustrated, were squeezed into 12 to 36 minute periods at the end of the
conference. Grateful thanks were extended to presenters Paul Kitchen, Glen
Goodhand, Eugene Willis, Bil Sproule and Eric Zweig. Read all about them in the
next SIHR-Plus Newsletter!
12. The longest period -- 65 minutes -- in SIHR's 13 year history, was
required to elect a president, executive VP, secretary, treasurer and VP
Atlantic. Although the Queen's University Archives' meeting room was tabled
into square not a punch was thrown! The balloting stretched the day's program
but indicated that SIHR is growing up politically. People are keen to fill
various offices and to say why. Cheers!
13. The meeting was graced by the attendance of four women, Anne Kitchen and
Marlene Fitzsimmons, who are members and Leslie Willis and Kathy Bruno
(prospectives).
Anne greatly assisted in the electoral process as a scrutineer and complimented
the usual judicious chaisrmanship style of husband Paul Kitchen, who presented
the nomination report.
14. First time attendees at the Friday night reception at the International
Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum included Wayne Geen of Oshawa and Neil Orser of
Sydenham, (publisher of The Hockey History Journal), Jerry Sullivan of
Marquette, Mich., plus observers Murray and Chris Cook, who supported Jim Cook
in his presentation of a fine colelction of his Hall of Fame father Bill Cook of
the New York Rangers.
15. Journal editor Eric Zweig, (11 books), Ernie Fitzsimmons (2 books) and
Bob Duff (co-author of "Without Fear" and many other articles, and noted book
editor Lloyd Davis participated in "The Perks and Perils of Publishing" panel
and brought forth many helpful tips.
16. Sixteen delegates wound up the conference with dinner and warm
conversations at the Holiday Inn dining room overlooking the historic harbour
where the first Kingston game was played in 1886.
--Respectfully submitted by the Old Scribe, who enjoyed taping and
photographing weekend events for newsletter editor Denis Gibbons, who is still
recovering from a trip to Prague and the 2004 World Hockey Championships.
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