AGM 2021 Oct

November 07, 2021

2021 AJA's 54th AGM and Dinner was held on Wed, 27 Oct
第５４回AJA　年次総会ディナーが開催されました。

AJA held our 54th AGM and dinner on Wednesday, 27th of October at the Ginza Miyako Japanese Restaurant. Last year we could not have physical gathering for our AGM and dinner due to Covid-19 restrictions. So we were all very lucky that we were able to have one together this year.

This year 25 people attended, including our special guest Noriko Tadano with her husband and son. Everyone had a great time and we enjoyed our meals while listening to Noriko's music.

会場は、銀座みやこジャパニーズレストラン

昨年はCovid１９の規制のために、会員の皆さんで集まってという形の総会はできませんでしたので、今年はこのように集まっての開催ができて、大変嬉しく思います。

参加者は２５人。美味しいお食事とおしゃべりで楽しみました。

スペシャルゲストに、津軽三味線アーティスト、只野のりこさんをお迎えして、生で演奏をしていただきました。参加した皆さんも、彼女の演奏に大変感動していました。

For the official part of the AGM;

Stuart chaired the meeting and everything went well. Sue gave us the financial report.
Kyoko gave the presidents report including a summary of what AJA has done in the year 2020 and 2021.
Kyoko also thanked Glen Woodward for his tremendously generous support for AJA, as he donated $600 last year and $1000 this year to AJA.
Kyoko thanked Glen for his generosity. Without Glen's financial support, AJA would not be able to keep going. Thankyou so much Glen san.
Kyoko also informed us of AJA's former president Jim Stewart recent achievement. Jim received one of the Japanese Emperor's Medals called the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette last November. On the 25th of March this year, Jim finally and officially was presented with the medal.
Jim announced that he stepped down from committee.
Kyoko thanked Jim for his wonderful work.

副会長のスチュアートが年次総会の議事を進め、スーからの会計報告、京子の会長レポートと、毎年AJAに多額（昨年は＄６００，今年は＄１０００）の寄付をしてくださっているグレンさんへの感謝の言葉、元AJA会長で、昨年の１１月に、日本の旭日小綬章を受賞したジムの紹介などと続きました。

最後に、新年度のコミッティーメンバーの紹介があり、年次総会を無事終了しました。その後はまたのりこさんの演奏を聴いたり、なごやかに懇談をして、１０時ごろにディナーは終わりました。

The new committee members of AJA were elected and are presented as below;

Kyoko Katayama : President
Stuart McClure : Vice president, Secretary, IT officer
Sue Treloar: Treasurer
Lauren Angelini: Public Officer
Ian Loxton; Committee member

Retiring committee members are;

Jim stepped down from committee due to his health condition.
Yuki Bennett also stepped down because she is going to start studying at TAFE which will be too much for her.
Both Jim and Yuki will stay as a financial member and attend Kaiwa Club and other events and help were the can.

Below are some photos from the night;

However we have more photos in our Facebook page and our Google album. Please see the link below.

年次総会の時の写真はAJAフェイスブックページやグーグルアルバムにも掲載されていますので、以下のリンクからご覧になれます。