Back in September 1998 I asked the mailing lists if anyone knew what had
happened to the then Registrar, Christine Healey. I was subsequently
contacted and given many of the behind the scenes details.
The August 'Miscellany' on page 3 makes an ill-considered comment on an
issue the Officers of the Club should hang their heads in shame over.
The second paragraph talks about an "irretrievable breakdown in trust
and confidence" between Christine Healey and her employer, the Club.
Following the decision of the Tribunal and the Club's apparent inability
to appeal, the fault has been found to lie with the Officers of the
Club.
After Christine had the bravery to take the MSCC to an industrial
tribunal and now has won, therefore being due substantial damages,
(which all club members will have to subsidise), an unnamed writer in
Miscellany, perhaps suffering from sour grapes, attempts to justify a
stupid series of actions as being:
"endorsed by the Majority of National Committee Members as being
the only action necessary to promote the Club in the way we
considered necessary"
Having lost their case in a Court of Law, that majority should resign,
as their judgement is questionable, together with any professional
advisors involved.
When I can get a copy of the judgement, I will put it unedited on a
website, so that at least some members of the MSCC can see what has been
done in their name.
I am not hopeful for the future prosperity of the Club, as with the
removal of Christine, the MSCC lost the services of not only a dedicated
Registrar for whom accuracy and the personal touch was a matter of
personal pride, but also her husband, who wrote all of the programs that
made the back office work so well. With the loss in the previous year of
the old Company Secretary, again with payment of damages, one has to
wonder whose agenda was/is being followed.
--
Jeremy Edwards
1972 Morgan 4/4 2 str
Melton Mowbray, England
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