Musa Dinner

The Macquarie University 'Blues' Dinner
- a Caving Perspective.

Friday May 9th 1997

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	This was taken BEFORE we even had a clue that we were on track to win the coveted 'Club of the year' award. As we could only fit 8 on the table, it was first come first served for the seating. Pity that 'SOME' of these people managed to get in... it sure lowered the tone a bit !
Our NEW mascot - TIM. Constructed from a Tempus 4 Cave Suit, a homemade Gell Cell battery and Oldham Lamp kit and a shiny pair of borrowed glug boots. He managed to survive the wrath of the boardsailing club. Tim was found suspended from a tree much later in the evening. The comment from the roudy boardsailers was that they were sure that 'wherever' they managed to hang him from, we would have enough gear to extricate him ! Actually if they had of taken the trouble to get him into the far end of Carslbad Caverns, we may have been in trouble !
	Ian Binnie has made a considerable contribution to the club over the past 15 years. His award of Club Colours was well deserved - Good on ya Ian ! Wearing the Helmet while accepting the award from the Chancellor was a great touch too !
As we mentioned, the club members present really got into the 'spirit' of the evening and consumed as much alchohol on the one night as the caving club table has consumed for the past 11 years ! Well we DID win ! Ned Stolz will be missed as he heads off into the Western Deserts of Australia. Ned was President in 1996 and this award had a lot to do with him.
	Turfa - 'Mr Smug' - Holds the trophy well away from the hands of the greedy Boardsailers and Rowing Team. Pity we did not do as well with 'Tim' the mascot.