The 2013 Annual Dinner

By on May 15, 2013

The 2013 Annual Dinner is almost upon us, here is a last minute update by Gavin Moreira, Administration Officer, CMPA.

WHO is up for a fun night or an enjoyable weekend away? If the answer is yes, then a reminder the CMPA 2013 Annual Dinner is now only weeks away!

The surf coast town of Torquay is the destination; Peppers The Sands Resort is the venue for what will be a fantastic night of entertainment. The Secretariat is now applying the finishing touches to what will be an enjoyable weekend for all members and their guests.

The CMPA Annual General Meeting will be held just prior to the Annual Dinner; which will be a great night to catch up with old friends, network with fellow members and meet new people with the same interests.

You will be wined, dined and entertained with legendary football coach Tom Hafey as MC, roaming magician Barry Govan and beautiful music from the band Beauty and the Beats. There will also be an opportunity to get your caricature drawn from cartoonist Tony Bramwell or win a prize at the silent auction.

The CMPA has also organised extra activities for members and their guests across the weekend to participate in including a sports boat fishing charter, a nine hole round of golf, shopping tour and a winery tour of Torquay. A great way to socialise and create team bonding skills with your employees and staff .

I look forward to meeting and greeting you all at Torquay. Don’t miss out on a fun filled weekend. RSVP Closes on Friday 9th August 2013.

TOM HAFEY – MC FOR ANNUAL DINNER

His career highlights include 10 grand finals with 4 premierships and one draw, 42 finals appearances, coaching 4 AFL teams and leading the Victorian State team to a 100% success rate over 6 years. He has been recognised in many different football related areas including an MBE from the Queen in 1981.

Following the end of his coaching career in 1989, Tommy has taken on a career as a self-styled “ambassador” for the game and is a strident advocate for physical fitness in the wider society.

An inaugural inductee to the Australian Football Hall of Fame 1996, Hafey was named coach of Richmond’s team of the century in 1998. In 2003, the Tigers set up the Tom Hafey club (a corporate networking group) in his honour.

In July 2011 a book titled The Hafey Years – Reliving a golden era at Tigerland was published. It documents Hafey’s involvement with Richmond as a player, and his run of success as a coach in the 1960s and 1970s. Hafey has resisted having a biography written about him, but author Elliot Cartledge “guesses the 80-year-old supported the project because The Hafey Years is not a biography but a chronicle of an era.”

In AFL Grand Final week in 2011 Hafey was awarded with the Coaching Legend Award by the AFL Coaches Association.

Hafey’s passion for fitness still exists today; every morning he wakes up at 5:20 and goes for an 8 km run, followed by 250 push-ups and a swim in Port Phillip Bay, and when he gets home he does 700 crunches and sit-ups. His New Year resolution in 1972 was “no more biscuits, cakes or lollies”– a resolution he has kept to this day.

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