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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting February 16th 2011

  Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End   EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY                                                                                                        -T.H. White – The Once and Future King   I love a good meeting theme – many future opportunities for musical theatre or a … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting February 2nd 2011

                                                          Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice         Resist the Beginning…Consider the End “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”  -Anne Frank                                                                                                                                                      Life at the board coal face is quite the scene, … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee January 19th 2011 Open Board Meeting

 Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice    Resist the Beginning…Consider the End    Sometimes I expect to see the camera crew from Punk’d as we wend our way through these meetings. This does not of course mean I spend any more time on … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting January 5th 2011

  Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice  Resist the Beginning…Consider the End    One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting December 1st 2010

                                                                                           Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice                                                                              Resist the Beginning…Consider the End   Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks he can do something better than reason.                                                                                                                                                                   -Percy Bysshe Shelley  The last meeting … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting November 17th 2010

                                                  Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice                                           Resist the Beginning…Consider the End  This is the next in a series of entirely unauthorised reports from this trustee on board meetings. If this email has made its way into your computer and you are … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee September 15th 2010 Open Board Meeting

     Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End This is the next in a series of entirely unauthorised reports from this trustee on board meetings. If this email has made its way into your computer and you are … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee June 16th 2010 Open Board Meeting

  Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End                                           I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.                                                                                                                                                     – Jonathan Swift  In a report or two ago I … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting June 2nd 2010

                                                                                                 Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice                                                                                              Resist the Beginning… Consider the End                               Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. -Paul Valery, French critic & poet (1871 – 1945) Now the board has … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee May 19th Open Board Meeting/3rd Reading of the Budget

                                                          Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice                                                        Resist the Beginning…Consider the End                                             I don’t usually make the classic error of speaking to the unmovable people at the top of the heap. I have found it is a waste of … Continue reading

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