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BLAH! CLUB NEWS<br />
DON’T FORGET<br />
YOU CANNOT RACE UNTIL<br />
YOU HAVE PAID YOUR SUBS<br />
REMEMBER TO GET YOUR BRITISH CYCLING<br />
MEMBERSHIP AND LICENCE AND<br />
SURREY LEAGUE AFFILIATION<br />
PAID IN TIME TO RACE<br />
CONGRATULATIONS<br />
NEW MEMBERS<br />
Phil Morris<br />
After some fast rides as a junior Phil took up rowing<br />
with some success, he hopes to regain some of his old<br />
speed on the bike.<br />
Simon Warren<br />
John Jennings<br />
Congratulations are due<br />
to Dave Mascall and<br />
partner Rachel on the<br />
birth of Samuel.<br />
I wonder if Samuel will be<br />
riding the Red Bull 24 in a<br />
kiddie seat behind Mum or<br />
Dad<br />
John was a member of the club in the 60s and 70s<br />
riding both time trials and road races and after a racing<br />
come-back in last year’s Presidents 12 he remembered<br />
why he retired from racing. John is a qualified<br />
osteopath with an interest in sports related injuries.<br />
JON JENNINGS<br />
Roadman, time triallist, Audax rider and tourist Jon<br />
Jennings collapsed and died at the age of 39 while on<br />
a skiing holiday in Italy. Jon, who started touring with<br />
the Croydon section of the CTC in his early teens,<br />
went on to ride for the Willesden CC and <strong>Norwood</strong><br />
<strong>Paragon</strong> before joining the Bishop’s Stortford CC, and<br />
Team Quest-The Bike Shop, in whose colours he rode<br />
regularly with his partner, Judith Swallow, in tandem<br />
time trials and Audax events including Paris-Brest-<br />
Paris.<br />
Born in Cumbria, he was brought up in the Purley<br />
and Coulsdon areas of South London, but Jon had<br />
lived in recent years at Pinner, Middlesex.<br />
He had survived cancer in his late teens, his foster<br />
father, Mike Bedford, said: “Jon’s illness spurred him<br />
on and made him very focused to live his life to the<br />
full, which is what he did. “Whatever he did — and he<br />
had plenty of strings to his bow — he did it to the<br />
best of his ability.”<br />
See page 5 for an appreciation by Keith Butler<br />
LESLIE ALFRED ADAMS<br />
The club had a very pleasant surprise recently when<br />
the general secretary, received a letter from the<br />
executors of the estate of the late Leslie Alfred Adams<br />
informing him of a bequest to the club of £500.<br />
Sadly no one on the committee could recall Leslie as a<br />
member although the feeling was that he had been a<br />
polo player. Does anyone remember him? And can<br />
write a few words for Blah!<br />
CHANGE OF ADDRESS<br />
Alison Butler<br />
Allison and Steve have moved to:<br />
CLUB NIGHTS<br />
Club nights have restarted, they are being held on<br />
the second and fourth Monday evenings of each<br />
month. The ongoing commitment to hold club nights<br />
will depend on people attending, so if you think they<br />
still are a valid part of club life come along.<br />
www.norwoodparagon.co.uk 2<br />
Blah! <strong>Winter</strong> 2005