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Editorial CLARIFICATION With the A.G.M. fast approaching, and bringing, no doubt, its usual crop of member’s resolutions and the like, it might be a good time to prevent any misunderstandings by setting the record straight on a small but important point recently raised by a member about the status of the current B.B. team.
OCTOBER In the interests of accuracy, his description of it as 1977 the 'Editorial Sub Committee' is not a correct description for two reasons. Firstly, a sub committee is a body set up by a committee for some special No 354 purpose during the lifetime of that committee. The B.B. team was set up by last years A.G.M and must CONTENTS therefore be considered (if it is necessary to label it at all) as a special committee; a working party or a Contents, Editorial Page 79 standing committee. In fact, when the club did a Fifth Column Page 79 vaguely similar thing in 1957, they called it the B.B. The Deepest Cave? Page 81 Editorial Board. Totes Gibirge, 1997 Page 83 Growth of the B.E.C. (Part 6) Page 85 But, coming to the second point, the present team is Monthly Crossword No. 79 Page 87 not an Editorial board. The chairman of the A.G.M. The views expressed by contributors to the Belfry made it clear that editorial responsibility – and, in Bulletin, including those of club officers, are not fact, responsibility for the whole team remained necessarily the views of the committee of the Bristol within the present editor. Exploration Club or the Editor, unless so stated. The Editor cannot guarantee that the accuracy of By defining what should be done and who should be information contained in the contributed matter, as it doing it, the A.G.M. chairman was acting in cannot normally be checked in the time at his accordance with traditional practice whereby the basic arrangements concerning the B.B. are laid disposal. down by the general membership of the club at The usual list of club officers etc., has been omitted General meetings. Thus, the B.B. is effectively from this B.B. owing to the proximity of publication managed directly by the club membership. Further to the A.G.M. The new officers etc. will be printed guidance may be found in the discussion non the constitution and the B.B. in the minutes of the 1970 in the November edition. A.G.M.
VOLUME XXX1 NUMBER 10
GROWTH OF THE B.E.C. In this issue, the series of articles lately running is completed. It would be interesting to see if any members can draw different conclusions from those in this B.B. As always, correspondence is welcome. _______________________________________________________________________________________
As a complete change this month, and to convince our readers that we really are a group (and versatile at that!) we have exchanged our literary talents for artistic ones, and present our bird’s eye view of the present club committee. The editor (that well know MCP) tells us that our cartoon will probably be too big for all of it to get printed. We don’t understand why, as it all went on the stencil we were given, but conceded that he might just be right. If so, we apologise for ‘doing it to excess.’