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In Christian The Fourth Guild Annual Guild Meeting 2019 there was quite a large turnout
The Master of Ceremonies, as usual, asked everyone to rise, whereupon The Benchers took their seats.
Afterwards, Chief Bencher Niels Voss Hansen welcomed to this year's Annual Guild Meeting followed by the later initiation ceremony with 18 new members.
The experienced chairman Mr. PE Jensen guided the assembly safely through the agenda - which meant he passed the word to the Chief Bencher for his annual statement.
He told that 2018 was a hectic year, not due to many initiations there were only 15 initiations with 344 new members, but because of the celebration of The Guilds 75th anniversary.
All initiations into the Guild are different. Remarkable was the initiation of 23 members of Odd Fellow Lodge no. 23 "Christian the Fourth" Copenhagen, who offered high spirits in the cellar.
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In 2019 two new benchers were initiated, namely Ole Bech Christensen, who is Guild Cellar Master and Torben Røgild, who is Guild Treasurer. Both were duly dressed in the Guild Robe and beret. The Guild hopes to get a lot of work from these gentlemen.
Traditionally, there were also awards to:
“Soldier of the year” was Sergeant Brian Dorum from Air Transport Wing. “The Initiative Prize” went to” The Volunteer Work at Aalborg University Hospital” represented by Tina Marie Aarup and Vibeke Ramussen, “The Aalborg Prize” went to Leif Ervolder for his work with the LOA -ship. Finally, there were donations to the Churchill Room (Gustav S.) and the Tholstrup Room (Magnus Neve Græsbøll) at The May 4th College.
Subsequently the treasurer Torben Røgild presented the accounts which was the end of The Annual Guild Meeting.
Later in the evening The Chief Bencher presented the Guild´s Gold Medal to Guild Vice Chief Bencher Henrik Jensen, who was initiated as Guild Secretary in 2005, and who has done a tremendous job. Behind every strong man is usually an even stronger woman, and therefore Mrs. Helene was presented a bouquet of flowers and a small bottle for joy and benefit.
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It was a great day at Nørresundby Gymnasium: It was the last school-day before Christmas and the 60th birthday of Headmaster Søren Hindsholm, and chief-bencher Niels Voss Hansen and his men were welcomed when they entered the hall and seized the microphone.
After a brief presentation of the Guild of Christian the Fourth the chief-bencher announced that the Guild also donates several prizes such as the Good-Spirit-Prize, which every year is given to students at Aalborg´s Gymnasier and Tech College.
The prize is given to a student, who has a positive attitude, a friendly and humorous disposition and a capacity for creating a pleasant atmosphere. Here the chief-bencher asked Tristan Grant Sporring to step forward to receive the Prize, which consists of a diploma, the Guild’s 75-years Jubilee booklet and a (minor) sum of money, which the chief-bencher – as usual – advised the receiver to spend on something quite unnecessary, as it was money far from all budgets. Then the chief-bencher proposed three “hurrahs”, and it sounded very fine through the hall.
Rector Søren Hindsholm was not totally forgotten. He too had to step forward and he received for his 60th birthday a bottle of Christian the Fourth´s Laugsbitter – for later consummation.
To a round of applause the representatives for the Guild then left the hall.
Photo: Fini Ryming
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After having secured the consent from restaurateur Lars Mouritzen on Tuesday the 13th of November at 12.30 some of the benchers from The Christian The Fourth´s Guild invaded restaurant “Papegøjehaven” to present one of the Guild’s Good Spirit-prizes to apprentice waiter Nina Suurland Nielsen .
The Good Spirit-prizes are every year given to students from Aalborg’s gymnasier and from Tech College, where Nina Suurland Nielsen was nominated. The prize is given to students, who have a positive attitude, a humorous and friendly disposition and a capacity for creating a pleasant atmosphere. And concerning Nina Suurland Nielsen the college’s motivation was, that she is “a merry girl and a fine role-model for the waiter profession, smart and a fast learner”.
The donation of the legacy to Nina Suurland Nielsen was greeted with cheers from all the guests in the full restaurant “Papegøjehaven” – and Nina had to hurry back to her duties as soon as she had finished being photographed and had expressed her joy and had thanked for the legacy, which had been a total surprise.
Beside the diploma with the Honor Nina received a gift-voucher to Aalborg City, which the Chief-bencher advised her to use for something absolutely unnecessary, and she received Christian The Fourth´s 75-years Jubilee booklet, where she – should she want it – could read about the Guild and its history.
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Three expectant representatives arrived at the Guilds room in Jens Bangs Stenhus, where the chief-bencher, Niels Voss Hansen, and the benchers awaited them. After a brief welcome the chief-bencher began the donations.
The three recipients of the donations were: The Colitis-Crohn Society, Aalborg Hunting
Club´s Nature-horn Blowers, and Aalborg Pensioners Orchestra.
The Colitis-Crohn Society was represented by Gitte Andersen from the society’s local branch in Northern Jutland. Colitis-Crohn is a disease in the large intestine, and the society got the donation for their work of information about this disease and its problems. The donation was DKK 4,000.
Aalborg Hunting Club Nature-horn Blowers was represented by Per Iversen, who on behalf of the club received the donation, DKK 2,000. The motivation for this donation is a wish to keep alive this musical speciality, and a wish to help the club going on representing Denmark at rallies around in Europe.
The third recipient was Aalborg Pensioners Orchestra, which got the donation partly because of its slogan: “We don’t eat pills – we make music”. This donation was also DKK 2,000.
The chief-bencher said on the occasion: “We would very much have liked the donations to have been bigger, and that there have been more of them, but the abnormal low rates of interest these days does that the yield of the capital of both the Christian the Fourth´s Guild and its Foundation is almost non-existing, so that there isn’t much to donate”.
Nevertheless, it was three happy representatives, that were leaving Christian The Fourth´s Guild-room and Jens Bangs Stenhus on that day.
Photo: Fini Ryming