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Time, Gentleman On 8 and 9 July over 100 people connected with the Ndola Golf Club
met at Ullesthorpe Court Golf Club in Leicestershire for the last-ever
tournament to be run by Geoff Robinson, who for the past 27 years
has organised the highly successful annual event for ex-Zambians
from 12 countries. Geoff, an erstwhile Ndola Golf Club captain,
has called ‘time’ – at least on the larger gatherings
in England because “there have been so many good gatherings
and I want to bow out while the event is remembered for these, and
not for the faces that may be missing in future,” he tells
Spotlight. He stresses however that smaller groups of golfers will
continue to meet all over the country and that around 120 members
have twice in recent years gathered in Natal, South Africa. Geoff
emigrated to Northern Rhodesia in 1956 and worked for what became
Monterey Packaging and Printing, of which, when he left Zambia in
1973, he was managing director. He married Ndola-born Maureen Kilfoil
in 1960. For details of future golf gatherings round the country
write to Geoff Robinson, The Boot Shop, Broad Street, Wrington,
Somerset BS40 5LD; geoffreyjohn@bootshop.freeserve.co.uk
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