Saturday 8th October saw the C&O Golfers group returning to Shin Numazu CC in Shizuoka for the first time since the Centenary Golf Outing in 2005. Our host once again was SNCC member Tomo Imai, who did an excellent job of setting up all the arrangements for the day.
Early Summer Party, British Ambassador's Residence
The golfing members of the C&O Society were all the more pleased to be able to get together at venerable Hodogaya CC on 16th July for our summer outing. Indeed this golf day had by necessity been rescheduled from the original spring time date, just after the tragic events of March 11th.
Hodogaya Country Club once again hosted the Cambridge & Oxford Society for our Spring tournament. This splendid venue — just a short thirty-minute drive down the Tomei — continues to be our favoured “home” ground.
Mr Teruhisa Nakamura (Worcester, Oxford 1964) retired from the C&O Committee at the Triennial General Meeting held on 20th April 2012, having devoted himself tirelessly to the day-to-day running of the Society for more than 30 years.
The 2012 C&O Autumn Golf Outing was held on 20th October under beautiful, sunny autumn skies — a welcome relief after the unusually hot summer experienced that year.
The tournament took place at Fuji OGM Ichihara Golf Club. Fortunately, traffic on the Aqua Line was light that morning, allowing all participants to arrive without the usual frustrations of a long weekend drive.
On 5th February 2013, fifty-two members of the Cambridge & Oxford Society — including two of our most senior members, Hugh Wilkinson (King’s, Cambridge 1946) and Doreen Simmons (Girton, Cambridge 1950) — together with seventeen guests, attended a dinner at the Tokyo Club to welcome our newly appointed President, HE Mr Tim Hitchens (Christ’s, Cambridge 1980), and his wife, Sara (Christ’s, Cambridge 1981).
A beautiful calm early Spring day at the venerable Hodogaya Country Club greeted the sixteen C&O players on Saturday March 23rd. This time we were graced with a guest – David Jones from the London wine merchant Berry Brothers, as well as the welcome participation of one of our lady members, Carolyn Macdonald. Everyone was delighted to welcome back to active golfing duties Terry Nakamura, who acquitted himself extremely well on the day.
On Wednesday, 25th September, we were very kindly invited to the exclusive Mitsubishi Club in Marunouchi.
On Thursday, 10th July, the Cambridge & Oxford Society and the Harvard Club held a joint party at the beautiful Tsunamachi Mitsui Club in the Mita area of Tokyo. It was Camford’s third time in this handsome building overlooking a large period garden that slopes steeply downhill almost to the boundary wall of Keio University.