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www.delaunecc.org Septembar 2017 No. 1022- 88 Year
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CLUB NIGHT
SECOND MONDAY
OF EACH MONTH 1889 DE LAUNE 2017
HERNE HILL VELODROME
104 BURBAGE ROAD CYCLING CLUB
LONDON SE24 9HE
All the President’s pen

PRESIDENT I’m very sad to report that Francis
WILLIAM WRIGHT
Rudd passed away on Sunday 13 th
61a Burns House
Kennington August aged 63. He had been
SE17 3SX suffering with a brain tumour since
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March this year. I first met Francis
CHAIRMAN (Franny) in the early 90s as his son
ROY SAVERY Dan (Danny) was joining the Club, so I only had only
01959 777455
heard rumour and legend of him in all kinds of exploits
SECRETARY on a tandem and apparently amazing bike handling,
JEREMY WHITE scaring his stokers witless.
101 Manor Park
London
SE13 5RQ Francis put together our De Laune Junior team
07565 151457
during the 90s. He taught me a lot during this time
TREASURER – not only about racing and how the sport works, but
RICHARD PREECE also about perspective: that while someone can take
8b Wellfield Road the sport as seriously as they wish – it has to stay
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07580 813114 fun as well. Even so, there was a lot of dedication
and attention to detail, as well as a lot of mileage
MEMBERSHIP
DAVID HAGGART up and down the country with the team.
388 Elmers End Road
Beckenham He and his wife Mary ran the Christmas Clubrun and
Kent, BR3 3HG
lunch for many years until the sale of the Clubroom
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in 2003. We’ll miss his warm and genial personality.

Our condolences are with Mary and Dan, and his
brothers Joe and Dave, and many other family

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