Twenty-One Years of the ACS

organised on the administrative and marketing fronts than before and she ~ - deserves an honoured place in its history. The possibility that Peter Wynne- Thomas might open Sport-in-Print opposite the Trent Bridge ground was on the horizon as I " Scaife left and it was not the V • '«■ ""'i moment to replace her straightaway. W^v" For several months Wynne-Thomas t David Harvey, by this time the ~ treasurer, shouldered a heavy load by Leigh Scaife running the ACS from their homes, with the stock in cardboard boxes spread between Wynne-Thomas's home and the Nottinghamshire CCC library. In April, 1988, Mrs Bernie Boultby was employed after the ACS was installed in Wynne-Thomas's shop and stayed for two and a half years before the arrival of Mrs Carol Bowles, who is still with us. Mrs Bowles's husband, Terry Bowles, is a partner in the free-lance agency at Trent Bridge that is responsible for Nottinghamshire CCC's newspaper and Nottingham Forest's programmes. One major change that came about during Mrs Scaife's period of office was that it made sense for her to handle all financial transactions, such as subscriptions and booklet purchases. Ken Trushell had served as treasurer for more than ten years and hitherto these functions had been fulfilled from his Cleethorpes home. Two separate paying in points - one at a different place from where books were dispatched - inevitably meant delays, and to centralise the ACS operation was long overdue. Trushell himself suggested towards the end of 1984 that the ACS would be better served by a treasurer living nearer to Derby and who could more easily maintain close contact with Mrs Scaife. Trushell, therefore, resigned and David Harvey, a Nottingham resident, was co-opted as his successor. Few have given more time and effort to the ACS than Trushell has done, particularly during its early years. Asked in August, 1974, 'to look after the cash book,' he never suspected how demanding the task would become. The treasurer's workload at this time merely amounted to writing a cheque, every six weeks, perhaps, and receiving fewer than 300 subscriptions. As membership and the publications increased, Trushell agreed to house the mounting pile of back number Journals and other booklets as it was logical for these to be held where the orders were sent. Within a year or so the Trushells' spare bedroom was stacked high with stock and his in-tray was crammed consistently with letters and cheques. It took 30-40 hours a week and more to deal with the correspondence and parcelling and Trushell's own cricket research - mostly in