From: 
carol johnsen <caroljscrabble@gmail.com>
To: carol johnsen <caroljscrabble@gmail.com>
Date: 17 July 2011 15:12
Subject: Revised Notice of ASPA (Vic) AGM
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A further motion for the Agenda for the ASPA(Vic) 2011 AGM was received on 28 June 2011 by the Committee. As this was received after the Notice was issued with the last Across the Board, the following is the revised notice:
Notice of ASPA(Vic)Inc AGM 2011
The Annual General Meeting of our Association will take place during the Midwinter Tournament, at approximately 1.30pm on Sunday August 14th 2011 at the Box Hill Senior Citizens Centre, 79 Carrington Road, Box Hill.
Elections will be held for all positions: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Officer, Ratings Officer, Rules Officer, Publicity Officer, and up to two other Committee members.
Nominations must be made in writing, signed by two members of the Association and accompanied by the written consent of the candidate, and submitted to Secretary, Cheryle Jerram, 28 Donald Road, Burwood 3125 no later than August 7 2011.
New items for business on the agenda to be discussed at the AGM closed on July 10.
Motions to be put forward at the ASPA (Vic) Inc Annual General Meeting on August 14 2011
1. MOTION: to increase the annual membership subscription to $20, with effect from 01/07/2012.
Proposed Membership Structure from July 1 2012:
Adults: $20.00 per annum
Juniors: $10.00 per annum (must be aged 17 and under on July 1st)
New members:
If joining prior to March 31st, $20.00
If joining after March 31st, there are two options -
Pay $10 for the remainder of the financial year
OR
Pay $25 and become financial till July 1st of the following year
Moved: Marj Miller
Seconded: Norma Fisher
2. MOTION: to adopt the National Rules, with effect from August 15 2011
Moved: Marj Miller
Seconded: Norma Fisher
3. MOTION: Members of ASPA(Vic) hereby extend an apology to ASPA (Vic) member Mohammed Hegazi, in relation to an unsubstantiated claim of cheating made against him.
The claim of cheating is attached herewith as “addendum (1) to motion”; a statement by Mohammed Hegai is attached as “addendum (2) to motion”
Moved: Tess Robinson
Seconded: Geoff Wright
Addendum (1) to motion:
On 12 May at the XB tournament, I was disturbed to notice a player cheating with the tiles in one of the rated games.
John Mina was playing Mohammed Hegazi, and I was seated beside Mohammed. My game had finished so I was watching play on their board, when Mohammed made a move leaving 2 tiles on his rack. JM took a fairly long time to respond, and while he was doing so Mohammed slipped one of his tiles onto his chair, under his leg. That enabled him to go out on the last move.
He won the game, but he was far enough ahead to win anyway, unless JM went out with a bingo.
I was uncomfortable about saying anything at the time, aware of etiquette in not commenting on other competitors’ plays at rated tournaments, but I was distressed to see it, given the frequency with which Mohammed accuses other players of cheating.
Perhaps I should have reported this earlier. I apologise for not doing so.
Signed: Katie Rowe
Addendum (2) to motion
Statement by Mohammed Hegazi
I make reference to an allegation of cheating made against me by Ms Katie Rowe. She was watching the game in question together with the TD, Geoff Wright, until the very end of the game. They were exchanging whispering comments about the game. Ms Rowe claims that etiquette prevented her from reporting the alleged incident to the TD at the time, yet she saw fit to report it in writing to Mrs Marj Miller, 5 months after the tournament. Mrs Miller in turn saw fit to table such unsubstantiated claim for discussion with me in a Committee meeting.
If Ms Rowe’s story had any shade of truth in it, she should have alerted the TD to the incident at the time. The TD would have ascertained the validity of her claim.
Mohammed Hegazi
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The above is a simple “cut and paste” job.
Tess Robinson from Ballarat is a Victorian scrabble icon. She has been running the Ballarat Scrabble Club for more than a decade. Those of us who participated in her regular tournaments are familiar with her warm friendly demeanour. In appreciation of Tess’ pleasant company, I visit her club every now and then in order to enjoy a rewarding day of scrabble.
I am really honoured by her moving a principled motion to exonerate me from the heinous unfounded accusation of cheating levelled at me in 2008. I am equally honoured by Geoff Wright’s unfaltering seconding of the motion. However, neither Tess nor Geoff would be available for secondment of the motion during the AGM of ASPA (Vic) on 14 August 2011. Tess has church commitments on Sundays. Geoff has long decided not to attend any such meetings, for reasons unknown to me. I can only assume that, like many others including my humble self, Geoff is not impressed by the lacklustre pompous attitude of some Committee members.
As to the outcome of the motion, I don’t really give a damn. I feel already vindicated, even if a show of hands would prove that the Shylockian factor overrides principle.
If you became curious, come back for a surprise about mid-August. As for me, nothing coming out from this mob would surprise me. Mrs Miller already told David More of NSW that, "It had been proven that Mohammed cheated"!
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