History of the Balmy Beach Club
Executive Board of Directors
History of the Balmy
Beach Club
The Balmy Beach Club, a non-profit
organization has served Toronto, the Beach community and its
amateur athlete members for 100 years. The Club land was deeded
to the residents of the Beach by Sir Adam Wilson and the Balmy
Beach Club was incorporated in 1903. Construction of the Club
House was soon underway and it opened for its members in 1905.
Fire destroyed the Club House in
1936, but through the efforts of several of its members, it was
rebuilt, only to have another fire destroy that Club House in
1963. Again, a number of members wasted little time in
rebuilding the Club House and the present Club House was
reopened in 1965.
Although the Balmy Beach Club was primarily made
up of two sections, lawn bowling
and paddling, the scope of its
activities has varied somewhat over the years. From these
two sections, three officers were appointed from each forming
the Board of Directors of the Balmy Beach Club.
Lawn bowling remained just that, but the
canoe
club took under its
jurisdiction the operations of the rugby
club, the
hockey
club, the
squash
club,
and other sports such as
football, harriers, volleyball, basketball, deck tennis, surf
boarding, tennis and anything that the members wanted to take
part in. Needless to say, the membership of the
canoe
club kept growing and
in 1972 the Constitution of The Balmy Beach Club was rewritten
and the Board of Directors
became an elected body by all members of The Balmy Beach Club.
Executive Board of
Directors
The 2008 Board Executive is as
follows:
| President |
Chris Buckley |
| Secretary |
Sandra Oolup |
| Community Director |
Kevin Harvey |
| Finance Director |
Mike Pollock |
| House Director |
Klnmond Smith |
| Membership Director |
Scott Wagner |
| Sports Director |
Kevin Hunt |
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