1977

24th January 1977. - Management Committee

Nairn had hosted a District Medal match against Elgin, at Inverness. The highest up Nairn rink in a 42 - 18 victory for the Club was R W Berry.

Prices for the Annual Dinner confirmed: Meal £2.75, Whisky £6.50 per bottle on the table. The number attending was confirmed at 63, the lowest for some time. This was partly due to Inverness Provice competitions on a Friday evening.

14th February 1977 - Management Committee

Fitting reference was made on the passing of Dr Douglas R MacDonald. An outstanding outdoor curler and a sportsman of the highest quality, he was held in great esteem by the wider curling community.

A revue of the recent Dinner & Court was held. It was felt the quality of a few of the speeches could have been better, and that the evening ran too late. More effort to be put into raising the standard of the evening in future. The evening was a financial success, but this was due to some 'no shows' for paid tickets, and despite Gregor Munro buying the stoup for £32 when it contained £37!

25th April 1977. - Annual General Meeting

The meeting was chaired by the Vice-president in the abscence due to illness of president Ron Berry.

Treasurer A Gunn gave a satisfactory financial statement which showed the Club had funds totalling £308.88. An ammendment to the Consitution & Rules referring to the payment of subscriptions was passed. A total of nine new memberships had been approved.

Graham Kerr gave a comprehensive Match Secretary's report which included the winning of the Moray Province Premier League by Tom Hastie (skip), David Kerr, David C Brown and Sandy Gunn; The Inverness Invitation Competition by Eric F Brown (skip), James Asher, Robert Mirtle and Graham Kerr; and the Scottish Rotary Championships by Eric F Brown (skip), D Harold Forrester, Ron W Berry and I Alistair Mackintosh.

There had been plenty of frost but the only recorded outdoor curling was Dr J Macfadfen and party at Achnatone.

Entries for club competitions had been much improved - Park Cup- 38; Sandy Gunn League - 35; David Brown Shield - 37; and the Points - 36.

A questionaire from G S Malloch of the Dowans Hotel Aberlour had been received, asking the Club about their possible usage of a proposed Ice-rink at the hotel.

13th September 1977 - General meeting

Chuck Hay, the newly elected president of the RCCC, had agreed to attend the Dinner & Court next Friday 3rd February.

The ice charges at Inverness had increased to £1.40 per head per session.

D H Forrester reported on attempts to revive the Nairnshire Curling Association - dormant since 1972.

A Province Points competition for a new Macarthur Trophy was to be introduced, open to individual representatives from Clubs within MOray Province.

Robert T Mirtle asked if the three Nairnshire County clubs could get together to maintain the pond at Ardclach. The club appointed Robert together with Ron Berry to approach the othe two Nairnshire clubs with the idea.

3rd November 1977 - Management Committee

A quote from the Highland Hotel for the dinner & court was considered. The cost of the meal was to be £3.30 qnd whisky to be $6.75 per bottle. The hotel had recently changed hands so it was decided that the President, Vice-president and Secretary should approach other hotels.

30th November 1977. - Management Committee

Satisfactory terms were agreed with the Golf View Hotel for the Dinner & Court. A display of Club trophies, winner’s boards and old photographs formerly displayed in the old clubhouse were to be displayed in the hotel.

The Annual Outing Trophy was played on 4 sheets at Inverness and was won by Stan Johnstone (skip) , with W Meldrum, M McInnes and A Hay.