Twenty-One Years of the ACS

the wind of change has blown through the committee room. Three long serving officers, Ken Trushell and John Featherstone - both previously featured in these pages - together with Tony Woodhouse, all retired in 1993. It was the first exodus on such a scale since the reshuffle in the ACS's inaugural year. Woodhouse (born 1931) had unusual distinction to be elected gg chairman in 1981 without Tony Woodhouse previous experience on the committee. He held the post for 12 years and in the early days, in particular, he had to steer the ACS through more than one domestic dispute. Like Robert Brooke and Dennis Lambert,his predecessors, Woodhouse found there were times - espeeially at AGMs - when he needed the patience and diplomacy of a United Nations' negotiator. To many he was an archetypal Yorkshireman, though slower to join an argument than most of that breed. Woodhouse's commonsense approach to problems served the committee profitably on numerous occasions. He would choose the moment carefully towards the end of a debate before he made a blunt, pithy comment, which, effectively, would settle the topic being discussed. In recent years he could not have been more loyal to the writer after the position of president was created. Woodhouse was responsible for the Yorkshire cricketers" and grounds' booklets, wrote the eounty's history for the Helm scries and is a regular contributor to magazines on Yorkshire leagues. He was seriously injured in May,1992,while a pedestrian in a road accident in Oxford,but is now making a good recovery. It did cause him, however, to reduce his mtmy commitments in the game. He retired from the Yorkshire CCC committee but remains the club's curator and historian. His injuries also disrupted an extraordinary record ofhaving attended every Yorkshire game at Headingley bar one since 1945 and he had not missed a Yorkshire home game anywhere since 1957. Now retired from a family advertising business, he possesses one of the largest, private cricket libraries in Britain,with 10,500or so books and he also hassome 36,000 cricket and football cigarette cards. The three new committee members elected in 1993 were Peter Griffiths, whose work with computers has already been described;Andrew Hignell,the winnerofthe 1989ACSStatistician of the Yctir award;and William Powell,whose election completed a hat-trick,in that he has also previously held offiee with the Cricket Society and the Cricket Memorabilia Society (CMS). Hignell (born 1959) is the Glamorgan CCC