{"id":5701,"date":"2015-01-28T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alps.asmlt.com\/?page_id=5701"},"modified":"2015-01-28T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:10:35","slug":"administrative-report-2006","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alpsmalta.com\/?page_id=5701","title":{"rendered":"ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t<\/a> <\/p>\n

JANUARY-DECEMBER 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
NUMBER OF NEW MEMBERS IN 2006:<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n
76<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NUMBER OF NEW LIFE MEMBERS 2006:<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

11
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

NUMBER OF LIFE MEMBERS TO DATE:<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n

92
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

NUMBER OF MEMBERS TO DATE:<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n\n
508<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEETINGS HELD
\n IN 2006:<\/strong><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n\n
6<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NUMBER OF ISSUES OF A.L.P.S. NEWS
\n IN 2006:<\/strong><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n\n
10<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

As in previous years I wish to start this Administrative
\n Report by putting on record my great appreciation for the
\n devoted and hard work done during the past year by all members
\n of the Council of Administration and the respective commissions,
\n which contributed to another exceptionally-successful year.<\/p>\n

The example given by our hardworking President George Stagno
\n Navarra gave each and every member of the Council the push
\n to make that bit of extra effort to ensure that each event
\n we organised constituted another success story for our Association.
\n I am sure the ever-growing success makes all of us proud to
\n be one of the leading and most active associations of its
\n kind in Malta.
\n                      
\n
\n The year started off with the Annual General Meeting in January,
\n in keeping with the Statute. It was unanimously agreed during
\n that AGM to set up a new commission to run any philanthropic
\n projects agreed on by the Council. The newly-elected Council
\n members immediately put on their thinking caps to collectively
\n formulate the programme for 2006.  <\/p>\n

The new Philanthropic Commission, chaired by Dr Nazareno
\n Azzopardi, started functioning immediately. The first project
\n organised by the Commission was Pitazz u Lapis<\/em> –
\n the collection of exercise books and pencils from schoolchildren
\n around Malta to be sent to children in the missions of the
\n Missionary Society of St Paul (MSSP) in Peru. The proper advertising
\n and marketing was done. Dr Azzopardi wrote to all the State,
\n private and Church schools about the project while Communications
\n & Publications Commission Chairman Laurie Vella orchestrated
\n an extensive media campaign. In just a few weeks over 7,000
\n items were collected, including not only exercise books and
\n pencils but also other school items. These were conspicuously
\n labelled to credit ALPS and were dispatched to destination
\n by the MSSP\u2019s Centru Animazzjoni Missjunarja<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As has now become customary, the first social event for the
\n year was the Valentine\u2019s Day Dinner. This annual event,
\n which our romantically-inclined members have come to look
\n forward to, was held at the Coastline Hotel with the attendance
\n of nearly 200 participants. <\/p>\n

March 2006 was a hive of activity for ALPS. A 60s Music Night,
\n which had for so long been suggested by several members, was
\n finally organised on 17th March at the Bella Vista Hotel,
\n Qawra. Participants were treated to a delicious buffet dinner
\n while they enjoyed listening and dancing to the 60s songs.<\/p>\n

That month also saw the participation of our Association
\n in the annual three-day Bicycle Marathon at The Lyceum from
\n 24th to 26th March. The presence of the Association was conspicuous
\n through participation in events held during the marathon.
\n Various ALPS members donated a good amount of items to be
\n sold at the bazaar. On every day of the marathon ALPS members
\n could be seen participating, all having been informed through
\n a flyer with the March ALPS News<\/em>. Besides individual
\n donations by all those who visited, the Association organised
\n a Pasta Evening at the marathon venue, thus enhancing its
\n active participation in the event. The Pasta Evening attracted
\n some 100 members and friends, with all proceeds going towards
\n the fund-raising aims of the marathon.<\/p>\n

The first day of Aril 2006 was certainly not April Fools\u2019
\n Day for the Association. On this day the annual Foundation
\n Day Concert was organised at the Lyceum Hall. As in previous
\n years the complete organisation of the programme was entrusted
\n to our Deputy President Joe Fenech. The dedicated preparation
\n of the U3E Choir and a number of other lyrical singers, under
\n the baton of Mro Fenech himself, resulted in a memorable evening
\n for all those who attended. ALPS is proud to be the organiser
\n of this annual cultural event. The concert was followed by
\n a reception for all those present.<\/p>\n

The month of May was characterised by the annual spiritual
\n retreat at Manresa House outside Victoria, in Gozo. About
\n 30 members and friends of ALPS and their spouses attended
\n the retreat, which was held with the usual unstinting help
\n of the Manresa House Director Fr Paul Zammit SJ with a programme
\n of sessions prepared by Biblical scholar Mgr Lawrence Sciberras.
\n The highlight of the retreat was undoubtedly the visit by
\n the newly-appointed Bishop of Gozo Mgr Mario Grech. This was
\n a unique opportunity for our Association during which President
\n George Stagno Navarra presented Bishop Grech with a certificate
\n of Honorary Life Membership of ALPS as a past student of The
\n Lyceum in Gozo.<\/p>\n

On 19th June the Association organised a BBQ dinner at the
\n Royal Malta Yacht Club on Manoel Island. The guests of honour
\n at the event were ALPS Canada Branch President Milo Vassallo
\n and his wife Rita. Mr Vassallo was visibly overjoyed to meet
\n his former schoolmates and friends, several of whom had made
\n it a point to attend the event as soon as they knew of his
\n presence. This was certainly another successful event.<\/p>\n

That other most popular religious function organised by ALPS,
\n the annual feast of St Anne at the Pwales Chapel, was held
\n on 15th July, with over 300 persons attending to the point
\n of constituting a very real problem of parvis space. The weeks
\n of preparation and cleaning of the chapel and its immediate
\n surroundings by the Council members had given the expected
\n good results. Mr Joe Fenech had prepared a set of hymns which
\n were sung by the U3E Choir during the Holy Mass celebrated
\n by ALPS Spiritual Director Fr William Bartolo OFM Conv. The
\n religious part of the event this year was enhanced by the
\n welcome presence and concelebration of Fr Albert Felice-Pace
\n OP, who for the past years has been leading ALPS efforts in
\n the Western USA for more membership of the Association.
\n Following Mass a programme of popular arias and operetta excerpts
\n were sung by the choir, after which Council members distributed
\n drinks and some finger eats to all those present. The evening
\n continued with one of the choir members playing the accordion
\n to the enjoyment of all present. The fa\u00e7ade and the
\n parvis of the chapel were well lit and decorated for the occasion,
\n giving the atmosphere of a typical local festa<\/em> on
\n a smaller scale with the statue of St Anne exhibited on the
\n pedestal on the chapel parvis. A deserved vote of thanks goes
\n to the Lyceum Scouts Group, who had passed a whole weekend
\n cleaning the path to make the chapel easily accessible to
\n patrons attending the feast. <\/p>\n

After the great success of the 2005 Grand Reunion the Council
\n decided to follow it up with another one. The months-long
\n efforts of Membership Commission Chairman Tony Aquilina to
\n get information on Lyceum past students who had entered or
\n left The Lyceum 50 years before, in 1956, gave the desired
\n results with a good number of Lyceum past students of the
\n time who were contacted \u2013 irrespective, I must add,
\n of ALPS membership \u2013 and attended the re-union. These
\n reunions, which it is now hoped to organise every year, are
\n open to all past Lyceum students but with special attention
\n to, or emphasis on, those students who would have entered
\n or left The Lyceum 50 years before. Our Communications &
\n Publications Commission is always very careful to point this
\n out in all its news releases, so that no other past student
\n will feel he is not welcome because he was at The Lyceum earlier
\n or later. We have no sense of guilt in admitting that we do
\n gauge the success of our activities by attendance, too, besides
\n the obvious enjoyment of each event. Old schoolmates met and
\n enjoyed the get-together and reception. Similarly to the first
\n Grand Reunion in 2005, the event encouraged more than forty
\n new members to enroll in ALPS. <\/p>\n

Deputy President Joe Fenech was again the promoter and organiser
\n of another socio- cultural event, this being a very informative
\n talk as a preview of the three one-act operas that were to
\n be staged at the Astra Theatre in Gozo in October.  Opera
\n lovers, members and friends of ALPS converged on the St James
\n Cavalier Music Room to get the background to the composition
\n and storyline of each opera, which surely helped them to better
\n enjoy the evening eventually. After the talk most of those
\n who attended took part in a Pasta Evening at the Inspirations
\n Restaurant.<\/p>\n

As in previous years, during November a Holy Mass was celebrated
\n at the St Anne Chapel for deceased former Lyceum students
\n and teachers, members of ALPS and family members of the Pwales
\n community; the latter visibly appreciated the mention of their
\n loved ones during the homily. ALPS Spiritual Director Fr William
\n Bartolo celebrated Holy Mass in front of a packed congregation.
\n A good number of those who attended accepted the invitation
\n of Assistant Secretary-General Charles Calleja and his wife
\n Therese for a cup of tea or coffee at their residence, and
\n later proceeded to Moments Restaurant in Bugibba for dinner.<\/p>\n

The advent of Yuletide could not pass by unnoticed by the
\n energetic members of the ALPS Council of Administration. Members
\n and friends of ALPS packed most of the Coastline Hotel\u2019s
\n Master Deck Restaurant for another memorable buffet Yuletide
\n Dinner. Over twelve attractive hampers prepared by Mrs Therese
\n Calleja and Mrs Madeleine Stagno Navarra, as well as other
\n gifts, were raffled. This being the Association\u2019s last
\n social event before Christmas, President George Stagno Navarra
\n thanked all present for the continuous support by patronising
\n functions organised by the Association, and imparted the season\u2019s
\n greetings on behalf of all members of the Council of Administration.<\/p>\n

Unusually this year, the Yuletide Dinner was not the last
\n event held by the Association before the Annual General Meeting.
\n With the express purpose of living up to the Council\u2019s
\n promise of more active and fruitful participation in the 2007
\n Bicycle Marathon held by Lyceum students, the Council decided
\n to organise a superb fund-raising dinner in support of the
\n marathon and, eventually, Id-Dar tal-Providenza<\/em>.
\n All proceeds of the marathon this year will go towards the
\n refurbishing of the main kitchen of the Home. The buffet dinner,
\n complete with live cabaret show, was held at the Paradise
\n Bay Resort Hotel at Cirkewwa on 20th January and, with well
\n over 300 paying guests, was easily the greatest such event
\n ever organised by ALPS. Most of the guests took the opportunity
\n of the hotel management\u2019s advantageous offer of overnight
\n accommodation and buffet breakfast. <\/p>\n

In due course between this AGM and the marathon itself in
\n March, members and friends of ALPS will be invited to other
\n fund-raising events and efforts, in the hope that the ALPS
\n impact on the proceeds will be an all-time record. <\/p>\n

All possible efforts are made to effectively publicise each
\n event organised by our association, especially through the
\n media. I wish to take this opportunity to thank our Communications
\n & Publications Commission Chairman Laurie Vella who, through
\n the extensive contacts he has built up with the editors of
\n the various local media over his journalistic career, always
\n persuades them to include our news releases on recent and
\n forthcoming events in their columns for the information of
\n all Lyceum past students and friends, as well as the general
\n public. Mr Vella\u2019s work also includes the regular publication
\n of ALPS News<\/em> and the continuous updating of the ALPS
\n website. Both these in-house media of ours are a source of
\n great satisfaction because they keep all the ALPS family together
\n both locally and away from our shores, especially in Australia,
\n Canada, the USA and the UK.  <\/p>\n

It would be sadly amiss at this conclusive point of the Administrative
\n Report not to point out the need for new blood at Council
\n level to understudy and support those of us who are now getting
\n on in years. This is not to say that any Council member has
\n ever faltered in his efforts for the Association. In fact,
\n I could not conclude this report without thanking all the
\n members of the Council of Administration and the various commissions.
\n The high-key tone of this report was made possible only through
\n their individual and collective dedication and energetic teamwork.<\/p>\n

\n ALEX BORG
\n Secretary-General\n <\/p>\n

Administrative
\n Reports:<\/font><\/strong> 2003<\/a>
\n 2004<\/a> 2005<\/a>
\n 2006<\/a> 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

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