Rover Reunion Summary

This is a brief summary of the presentation I gave at the Crew Reunion last Friday;

Welcome to the 50th Anniversary History of the St Johns Wood Rover Crew. This CD is a prototype – an extract of the full Monty. The finished CD will probably run to about 650 meg; is point and click friendly, and you’ll find yourself in there without a great deal of difficulty. It is a CD, not a DVD.

Depending on your computer screen, appearances may differ slightly.

The Opening Screen is the Home Page and is straight forward. It sets out the Welcome and the 4 volume structure of the CD.

The Welcome section typically has an Introduction, Acknowledgements, Foreword and Contents. The Chief Commissioner, Maurie Law has written the Foreword, which arrived by email last Wednesday.

The Contents give more detail on what’s in each of the Volumes.

Volume 1 is the Twenty-Five Year Booklet; 1959 – 1984, with corrections to my earlier errors. It is reproduced as written, but paginated to this CD format. I have recreated the cover from the original art work done by Ian Webb and Russ Davie.

Each Volume has a side bar, listing the point and click index of “chapters” as I call them. This can be changed to a page index – or removed altogether.

Volume 2 is, “The Next 25 Years – 1984 to 2009”, and is in the same mould as Vol 1 – but a bit longer and with a few more photos.

Volume 3 continues the story, covering The St Johns Wood Fellowship, Crew Sponsorship, SOFA, and Annexes depicting Who’s Who of the Crew, a Crew Chronological Tree, an Annex of Lists for the trivia buffs, and of course a section dedicated to deceased members and associates.
Both SOFA Logs are reproduced in full in Vol 3 – which shows I hope that there is life after the Crew.

Volume 4 is “The Saints Pictorial”, a photo album covering the fifty year period – again using the “chapter” headings used in the History. [I’ve included photos of thirty two of the thirty four investiture sites that the Crew has used, captioning the name and year of each Rover’s investiture at that site].

There will be a Volume 5 containing multiple Slide Shows. The slide shows will be structured on the “chapters” used in the History. There will also be an additional file listing each photo in the slide show. It is hoped that this file will be able to be printed out, even though the rest of the History will be locked.


URGENT URGENT URGENT
I’m still putting these slide shows together, so if there is a particular photo or photos that you would like included, please email (or snail mail) it/them to me ASAP with details of when, where, what and who. (max 5 per email please). Cut off date is Friday April 9, 2010

The first booklet ran to some 50, ½ xA4 pages; 10000 words, and 8 B & W photos – 4 colour separation was rather expensive back then.

A printed version of this 50th Anniversary History will run to more than 300 pages; 72000 words and at last count 750 photos and images, excluding the slide shows.

The whole thing should be done and dusted and ready for launch by the end of July.

Rob Bruce