Appointments to the Board- Info on Charities- Pool is Booked!

The Board of Directors

Howdydoody,

The 40 Foot Walruses are proud to announce 3 Appointments to the Board of Directors:

Aran "BigPerm" Byrne has been appointed "The 40 Foot Walruses Sea-Swimming Club Director for Communications and Relations with Schools".

Handsome DaveD has been appointed "The 40 Foot Walruses Sea-Swimming Club Director for Artistic Endeavour and Design" (watch this space for a slick-ass logo).

Donal "TheFishMan" O'Gorman has been appointed "The 40 Foot Walruses Sea-Swimming Club Director for Communications and Relations with Wells for Zoe".

If you have any freakish talents you could lend to the club please let us know, in particular a Director of Photography and a Director of Corporate Fundraising are particularly desirable!

Sponsorship Cards will be printed and distributed in mid-May. In the meantime, here is a word from Aran as to how the funds raised will help Underprivileged Schools:

Aran (Director of Communications and Relations with Schools):

"We are aiming to donate €2,500 each to 2 under-privileged schools in the local Dún Laoghaire area. They are the 'Holy Family N.S.' in Monkstown Farm and 'St. Kevins N.S.' in Sallynoggin. These schools are funded by the Department of Education but like many schools in Ireland this funding only provides for 2/3’s of the basic everyday running of the schools. The remainder comes from parents.

Al and myself met with the principles of the two schools last week and asked them to put together a wish list of equipment the children could benefit from. Holy Family N.S. informed us they wish to start coaching kids Olympic Handball, but the gear (nets etc.) they have now is over ten years old, and a health hazard! St. Kevins N.S. teaches music but has little or no equipment, through buying musical instruments we can help them get a good music program up and running.

From our point of view, as a group, these are great things to be providing for children who otherwise wouldn't have access to this type of equipment."

Thanks Aran, beautifully put. Next week Donal will give us the low-down on how the funds we raise will be put to use by Wells for Zoe to help poor folk in Africa.

May 4th 2km swim.

"Our Man Sham" booked the best pool in Dublin, the 25 metre pool in Sportsco for May4th, and the legend got it for €40 quid (other pools were quoting €200). The whole 6 lanes of the pool will be ours from 7pm-8pm on the day. Check out link below for details and directions:

http://www.sportsco.ie/facilities/swimming-pool/swimming-pool.html

Who's at 2k?

Fair Play to Kedders, Sue, Trev and myself for reaching the 2km mark since last Wed. Well done of course to Denny, Donal, Madeleine, Paudie and Sham who were already there! The table (found in blog no. 2) is updated every time a swimmer either e-mails me a new distance or posts their new distance on the blog. Updated distance are in green!


4o Foot Sundays

We had a suprisingly good turnout of Hardcore Heads for the Splash in the Storm last Sunday; Sham, Donal, Madeleine, Aran, Simon eile and myself braved it, and it was suprisingly pleasant!
We'll be there again at 12.30 as always this Sunday.