Wednesday, 7th September 2016
The Club Person of the Year is one of the greatest accolades we give at SYC, each year another worthy person joins this very illustrious group. To call this award “Club Person of the Year“ is a misnomer as all recipients have given their time and expertise to the Club over many many years and this year was no exception. This year’s recipient stands out as having given so much service to the Club not just over many years, but also over so many different areas of our Club.
To this, it was dual recipients for the Club Person of the Year award for 2106 and was awarded to Di Tyndall and Margaret Whitbread, they work as a team, so they received the award as a team.
Di and Margaret’s work with Race Management is a highlight and helping with social events is another. Those who sail on Wednesdays will be particularly aware of how much work Di and Margaret do. They are affectionately known as the Tower Ladies, but they don’t just start, finish and record the race. After the race they, sell raffle tickets to provide “funny money” to subsidise the two Presentation Nights in which they organise including decorating the tables and trophies for the night, in fact do everything and simply hand the run sheet over to the handicapper for the night. They have been doing this as the core team for more than 10 years.
But it’s not just Wednesday Sailors who benefit, both ladies are part of the Race Management teams on Thursdays, Saturday and Sundays on the water as well as well as in the tower and they also contribute to our social events.
Margaret, well known as a very hard worker, someone who is willing to put up their hand to anything – even cleaning the Club’s trophies, nothing around the Club is too hard or too much trouble and it is much appreciated.
Di, also puts in hours and hours into producing Off the Wind and is a magnificent wordsmith and a pedantic editor! So many thankless hours but such a great result.
On accepting the award, Di and Margaret were both speechless…who would have thought!
Congratulations Ladies!