ARIZONA CROQUET CLUB
Minutes of Annual Meeting of June 15, 2002
Present:
Rory Kelley (Past Pres) Ed Cline (Pres)
Ray Hamm (Treasurer) Tom Ross
Paul Bennett (Vice Pres) Jay Murphy
Pat Roach (Secretary) Stan Patmor
Absent: Patty D., Ren K., John F., Don F., Jacques F., Carter C., Jim H., etc.
The meeting was called to order at 9:15 AM.
The agenda described the order of business.
Reports from each officer were presented.
No old business was discussed.
The slate of officers was presented.
Nominations for two "at large board members were made.
Both Tom Ross and Jay Murphy declined nominations from the floor.
Carter Crane and John Fournier were nominated to serve as "at large" board members.
The election of officers was held with the slate being nominated by acclamation.
The board of directors elected to serve the club for the next year is as follows:
Stan Patmor (President)
Rory Kelley (Vice President)
Don Fournier (Treasurer)
Paul Bennett (Secretary)
Ed Cline (Past President)
Ren Kraft (Club Court Owner)
Carter Crane (Member At Large)
John Fournier (Member At Large)
(Both John and Carter, later by phone, accepted to serve these positions on the board.)
The meeting was then turned over to the new president, Stan Patmor.
No new business was brought before the club.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:35 AM.
Stan called for the first board meeting to be held June 15 at 5:30PM at his home.
Stan mentioned that board meetings are open to all club members.
Minutes of the ACC board on June 19, 2002
The new board of the Arizona Croquet Club met at Stan Patmor's
house. All members are welcome to attend the board meetings.
Present: Stan Patmor (President), Don Fournier (Treasurer), Rory
Kelley (V.President), Ren Kraft (court owner), Paul Bennett (Sec
retary), Carter Crane (at large)
Absent: Ed Cline (Past President), John Fournier (at large)
Meeting was called to order at 5:37 PM.
Board discussed the financial position of the club and ways
to reduce expenses. Don reported that the club has $1500 in the
bank.
Carter arrived at 5:56 PM.
ACTION: Stan and Ren will work with Jim Hulett to discuss lawn
care options.
ACTION: Stan and Rory will put on paper what the expected opera
tion is for the coming year.
ACTION: Don will put together a budget.
We discussed the trash heap that accumulates near the court
side entrance. No motions.
We discussed the idea of a formal debate for selecting the
Arizona Open rules format. A pro and con advocate would be se
lected for making a presentation before the board. In the de
bate, Rory will advocate (pro) for changing AZ Open format to As
sociation Rules, Ren will advocate (con) for keeping AZ Open
American Rules.
MOTION: (Ren, 2nd Rory) We will hold a special board mtg near the
end of September to discuss the format of the Arizona Open. Mo
tion passed unanimously.
We discussed the tournament schedule.
MOTION: (Carter, Don) The board directs the vice-president to
prepare a tournament schedule and mail out said schedule by July
1st. Opposed by Ren and Rory, vote carried.
ACTION: The board will organize and direct "Wednesday nite club
croquet". All members (and guests) are welcome to come out and
play games of croquet meeting around 6:00 PM. The following
sponsors will organize each month's activities: Stan Patmor (Ju
ly), Carter Crane (August), Paul Bennett (September), Don
Fournier (October), --- TBD --- (November)
The secretary discussed that no minutes were taken last year
because no board meetings were held. Paul is collecting and re
viewing the records of the club. No records past '93 were re
ceived. If you have any records you would like to contribute,
please contact Paul.
MOTION: With no further business pending, a motion to adjourn was
made by Don Fournier, Jr. which was seconded by Carter Crane and
unanimously accepted.
Meeting was adjourned at 7:26 PM.
Respectively submitted,
Paul Bennett Secretary of the Arizona Croquet Club
Minutes of the ACC board on October 26, 2002
A special meeting of the board was held at Ren Kraft's court to
debate the issue of the rules to be used during the Arizona Open.
All members are welcome to attend the board meetings.
Present: Stan Patmor (President), Rory Kelley (V.President), Ren
Kraft (court owner), Paul Bennett (Secretary), Ed Cline (Past
President), John Fournier (at large), Tom Ross, Jay Murphy, Patty
Dole
Absent: Don Fournier (Treasurer), Carter Crane (at large)
Meeting was called to order at 8:05 AM
The minutes from the last board meeting were accepted. Rory
made motion, 2nd by Ren; motion carried.
The first (and only) item on the agenda is to debate the
following question: Shall the rules of the Arizona Open Croquet
tournament for 2003 be changed from the Official Rules of the
United States Croquet Association (USCA rules) to the Laws of As
sociation Croquet (International Rules)?
The affirmative position was presented by Rory Kelley; the
negative position by Ren Kraft.
Rory stated that this year would be a bad year for changing
the rules to Association since Jeff Soo will be organizing a
tournament on the East coast for either the last week of March or
the first week of April. It would be difficult to host a Associ
ation rules tournament with the loss of Fourier's court (house on
market for sale).
Ren asked that the question be dropped since Rory did not
make a case for changing the rules. He went on to provide the
reasons for keeping the Arizona Open an American rules tourna
ment. A few years ago we experimented with changing the rules
and this showed how important our tournament was to many players.
They still regard the Arizona Open as one of the most important
tournaments in the country. It has always been one of the
strongest tournaments in the country. There are a lot of good
players, as evidenced by this years Nationals, that can be at
tracted to come to our tournament. There were two dozen players
with handicaps 0 or under in this years tournament. It still has
a good reputation and is one of the best deals for a tournament.
There is a lot of tradition behind our tournament and Ren would
like to see the American rules stay.
Rory debated why he would like to change the rules to Asso
ciation in the future (but not this year). He would like to see
more International players to come to Arizona and play in our
tournament. It is a good travel time of the year for many play
ers. Rory likes the association game, it is fun and less con
tentious. Rarely do arguments surround the association game.
The American rules are not as fun, the game is punitive. Rory
does not see this in the Association game. There is more com
radery.
Ren stated that he did not see any big problems during this
years Nationals. There were some interesting issues now and
then, but no contentious arguments.
The discussion was then opened to all present but no further
comments were made. The board then voted on the question.
MOTION: Keep the Arizona Open an American rules tournament.
Passed unanimously.
ACTION: The dates for the Arizona Open will be determined by Rory
within the next week. This will be followed up with appropriate
advertisements (Croquet Calendar, etc). Tentatively Mar 9 - 15
is being looked at as long as this does not conflict with the
Club Teams.
MOTION: With no further business pending, a motion to adjourn was
made by Ed Cline which was seconded by John Fournier and unani
mously accepted.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:26 AM.
Respectively submitted,
Paul Bennett Secretary of the Arizona Croquet Club