Dinner speech on the 25th May 1991

Abstract

Honourable Parliamentary Secretary for Transport and Communications, Mr Postmaster General, Mrs Costa, Ladies and Gentlemen! We have made it! YES we have indeed made it!! Perhaps you may not appreciate enough with what great pride, satisfaction and happiness I have pronounced and again emphatically repeated this short but meaningful phrase, with which I have introduced this address of mine, on this memorable occasion this evening, for, when 25 years ago this Society was born, and even throughout the earlier years of its existence, judging by the then prevailing circumstances and prospects, I never for a moment believed or even entertained the slightest hope that what we already celebrated and are today still celebrating, ie the 25th Anniversary of this Society, could have possibly ever materialised. Thus we have every reason to rejoice and celebrate, for that which was not anticipated to occur, has indeed happened. [excerpt]