November 2019 Issue #43 MAGASCENE Secretary’s Report Issue #43, November 2019 Welcome to MAGA Scene Issue #43! Contents We are well on our way to the festive break with the MAGA Annual General Meeting less that 3 weeks away, being on December 9th. If you can make it in person, please contact George Bruno (
[email protected]), Jessica Wells 2 (
[email protected]) or Ross Maio (
[email protected]). If you President’s Message A message from George wish to attend the Webex, please contact The Secretary on Bruno
[email protected]. 3 We were saddened to hear of the passing of Kevin Hocking OAM (#43) on Anniversaries Monday, 14th of October, 2019. Kevin was 87 years of age. Our condolences go out to his family and friends. Please see below for an article on Kevin’s remarkable career. Many thanks for Wendy Hocking supplying this 4 information and photographs. New Members We would like to congratulate Bob Madden (#285) om reaching 50 years’ membership. We also have an article on Bob later in the issue. There are 5 also 6 other members reaching over 50 years with Ron Brown (#82) Bob Madden celebrating 55 years! We also welcome two new members Copyist Matthew 50 Years Chin (#680) and Arranger Stuart Collidge (#681). This takes the total new MAGA members to 5 this year. 6 There are some exciting initiatives coming up for the new year one of which AGM 2019 is the “MAGA National Youth Arranging Competition”. The AGM will include a short overview of this competition with the competition planned to kick off in February 2020.