Yousry Ghamry (Egypt) has been elected by the WCF Council to serve as the WCF Treasurer from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2022 in succession to Martin French (England).
Yousry received 31 votes and Lorraine Smith (Australia) received 22 votes.
He is a croquet player who serves on the Board of the Egyptian Croquet Federation. By profession, Yousry is ab accountant who has worked for the Egyptian operations a large U.S. company for many years.
The post of Secretary-General is appointed by the WCF Management Committee to serve for a term of four years. The current term of office expires on 31 August 2017.
The President of the World Croquet Federation has announced today, 1 August 2017, that the WCF Management Committee has unanimously agreed to re-appoint Stephen Mulliner as Secretary-General for a second term of four years to 31 August 2021.
The GCIGS (the Golf Croquet International Grading System) database has been transferred to the WCF’s new ISP, Siteground. The URL is now http://rank.worldcroquet.org/gcrank/rank.php
The croquet world has lost one of its most venerable figures. Bernard Neal passed away on 26 March 2016 juust short of his 94th birthday. He had been unwell for some time and had been admitted to hospital after a series of falls at home in Cheltenham.
Croquet owes a considerable debt of gratitude to Bernard as a top-class player, a very capable administrator and an invaluable link between the Croquet Association and the All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club where he served as a committee member and Vice President for many years. It was through Bernard’s good offices that the AELTCC presented the Wimbledon Cup in 1989 to be the trophy for the Association Croquet World Championship.
Bernard came to croquet via lawn tennis and Wimbledon after a full-sized croquet court was installed in 1957. He joined the Croquet Association in 1960 and soon rose to the top of the game. He represented Great Britain in the MacRobertson Shield in 1969, 1974 and 1979. He was soon elected to Council which benefitted over many years from his sound judgement and wise advice. He became Chairman of Council in 1972 and proceeded to set a record that is unlikely ever to be beaten, namely winning the Open Championship in both years of his chairmanship! His other unique claim to sporting fame is as the winner of the greatest number of Wimbledon titles, namely 37 times the winner of the Wimbledon Croquet Championship. This far surpasses the haul of any tennis player.
Bernard enjoyed good health into his nineties and it was a very fitting tribute to him when he was elected President of the Croquet Association in 2004 in succession to John Solomon.
Above all, he was a gentleman, the most sporting of opponents and a very good and generous friend to very many croquet players in England and across the croquet world. He will be greatly missed and our thoughts and condolences go to Liz, Mike and Cathy on the loss of their husband and father.
From now on, the WCF web-site should be accessed by using the URL www.worldcroquet.org.
The old URL www.worldcroquet.org.uk will continue to provide access to the website until it expires on 3 April 2017. This URL was only created to facilitate the transfer of the new WCF website to a new ISP.
Amir Ramsis, the President of the Egyptian Croquet Federation and the current WCF President, was re-elected to serve as President from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2019.
Two candidates were nominated. Amir Ramsis, who was nominated by the Egyptian Croquet Federation, received 38 votes. Ian Burridge, who was nominated by the Welsh Croquet Association, received 19 votes.
