LIFE MEMBERS

Life Membership of the Treorchy Male Choir is the highest accolade that can be presented to a chorister. Traditionally the title of Life Membership was presented to a chorister who had contributed above and beyond the call of duty to the benefit of the Choir.

The choristers are nominated for Life Membership and this is decided upon by the four members of the Life Membership Committee. If they deem the nomination should be upheld, then it is referred to the Management Committee for decision and then brought before the full Choir for approval.

In 1980 it was decided that all those choristers who had appeared in the Choir’s first official photograph in 1949 would receive Life Membership. In 2005 the Constitution was changed to allow choristers who had been members for 35 years to automatically receive the honour. At present both methods of receiving Life Membership of the Treorchy Male Choir are accepted.

Find below a list of all those individuals who have received Life Membership of the Choir since the honour was first presented more than sixty years ago.

Tom Jenkins, 1947 Secretary of the Pre-War Choir; Vice President 1946-1966

David Jenkins, 1955 Treasurer 1946-1951

T.Dewi Hopkins, 1955 Publicity Officer 1952-1954

David J. Davies, 1957 Founder Member

George Neighbour, 1962 Chairman 1946-1963

Edward Knapgate, 1962 Vice Chairman 1946-1963; Chairman 1964-1966; Vice President 1967-1971

Jack Jones, 1963 Founder Member

Trevor Protheroe, 1965 Committee Member 1953-1955

John Haydn Davies, 1967 Founder Conductor 1946-1967; Vice President 1967-1991; Conductor Emeritus 1967-1991

Tom Jones, 1967 Founder Accompanist 1946-1971

W.J. ‘Donna’ Griffiths, 1967 Publicity Officer 1948-1952; Secretary 1952-1980; Vice Chairman 1980-1981; Chairman 1981

Gwynne Williams, 1967 Treasurer 1952-1979

Haydn Thatcher, 1969 Committee Member 1950-1956; Contribution Secretary 1956-1966; Vice Chairman 1967-1972

David Galliford, 1970 Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph

Idris Thomas, 1971 Registrar 1952-1957

Sam Griffiths, 1974 Choir Soloist 1948-1987

Haydn Erasmus, 1975 Founder Member; Committee Member 1961-1966; Chairman 1967-1973 & 1989-1991; Fifty Year Member 1996; Vice President 2007-present

William Jones, 1975 Founder Member, Committee Member 1953-1960; Vice Chairman 1975-1979; Chairman 1975-1976

Cas Powell, 1975 Founder member, Vice Chairman 1975-1976; Chairman 1976-1977; Guest Conductor

Ben Jackson, 1980 Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph. Fifty Year Member 1997

Ieuan Davies, 1980 Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph

Edmund Evans, 1980 Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph

Islwyn Morgan, 1980 Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph; Assistant Secretary 1968-1980; Secretary 1980-2001; Fifty Year Member 1997; Vice President 2007- present

Walter Breeze, 1980 Founder Member. Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph

Norman Martin, 1980 Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph. Registrar 1962-2002; Honorary Archivist 1962-2002; Fifty Year Member 1997; Vice President 2007- present

Roy Bobbett, 1980 Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph

Ben Griffiths, 1980 Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph. Committee Member 1968-1991; Fifty Year Member 1997

David Rees, 1980 Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph

Edward Davies, 1980 Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph

Reg Davies, 1980 Founder Member. Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph. Librarian 1958-1962; Committee Member 1978-1979; Chairman 1980-1981

Robert Griffiths, 1980 Committee Member 1968-1970 & 1979-1983; Vice Chairman 1972-1974; Chairman 1985-1987 & 1997-2000; Fifty Year Member 2003; Vice President 2009

Dan Williams, 1980 Founder Member; Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph; Committee Member 1969-1977; Chairman 1978-1979

Ieuan Lawrence, 1980 Appeared in the 1949 Official Photograph; Fifty Year Member 1997

John Mallin, 1984 Publicity Officer 1970-1979; Treasurer 1979-2006

John Cynan Jones, 1984 Associate Conductor 1965-1969; Conductor 1969-1991; Conductor Emeritus 1991-present

Clifford Taylor, 1985 President 1967-1998

Clifford Chislett, 1986 Librarian 1968-1989; Assistant Librarian 1990-1993

John Hopkins, 1986 Committee Member 1965-1983

Michael Gale, 1988 Contribution Secretary 1967-1968; Assistant Secretary 1981-1989

John Davies, 1993 Publicity Officer 1980-1990; Chairman 1977-1978 & 1991-1993

Alun Hughes, 1993 Committee Member 1977-1978; 1992-1993; Vice Chairman 1983-1984 & 1985-1986 & 1990-1991; Chairman 1984-1985

Dean Powell, 2005 Publicity Officer 1993-2001 & 2002-present ; Soloist 1992-present ; Compere 2004-present ; Honorary Archivist 2002-present

Reg Stephens, 2005 Member For Over 35 Years

William Watkin, 2005 Member For Over 35 Years; Fifty Year Member 2007

Len Gale, 2005 Member For Over 35 Years; Fifty Year Member 2009

Peter Morris, 2005 Member For Over 35 Years

David Powell, 2005 Member For Over 35 Years; Committee Member 1994-2001; 2002-2009

Frederick O’Brien, 2006 Committee Member 1987-1991 & 1992-2001; Vice Chairman 1991-1992; Secretary 2001–present

Bryn Howells, 2006 Committee Member 1983-2006; Member For Over 35 Years

Peter Jones, 2006 Member For Over 35 Years

Bryn Jones, 2006 Member For Over 35 Years

Ken Simcox, 2008 Member For Over 35 Years

Roger Morse, 2009 Member for Over 35 years; Committee Member 1989-1990; Vice Chairman 1998-2000; Chairman 2000-2005

Alun Davies, 2010 Member for Over 35 Years; Committee Member 1997-2007; 2009-

Cyril Bevan , 2010 Member for Over 35 Years