CAHS Officers' Meeting Minutes on June 22, 2025
CAHS meeting June 22, 2025
Attending: Johnny, Thomas, Dot, Chris, Harry, Bob, Carolyn
CAHS officers meeting agenda
Review notes from previous meeting [Carolyn]
• Membership update [Bob] Bob was late to meeting and it was discussed as current
members 280, 260 individuals and 20 organizations, 18 joined this year so far
• Finance update [Dot] monies on hand $14,000 on hand, but have to pay Travel grants –
one needs to have her presentation and the other one has not traveled yet, and $11,654
Vanguard. Dot stated about $17,000. A guy called Scott Parkey donated some money to
us but don’t know how to thank him. She is working on it.
• Events: [Johnny]
o Book club - June 24th Devonshire Hollow will be discussed
o Anna Anis post-travel talk: July 29 - Aug 2, We talked about the dates but nothing was
settled. Need to decide.
o Gathering Sept 2026 (any updates?) Jim Jewell is the new MP President and will be easy
to work with. Tom will be the liaison for us. They have a Cornish Fest each September and
have been invited this year. Tom will do some “Save the Dates” items to let folks know
what is going on. Dot asked about registration and is willing to help with it like last year.
o Other??? NONE
• Cornish Language group update [Harry] Harry is pleased with the group. Next meeting is
June 23 at 5pm. A group of about 8-10 always attend and are a great bunch. Terry Moyle
is helping facilitate the group. We were all invited to come.
• SIG Cornish history and genealogy [Harry] He feels like the language group might also be
interested in having a group for history/genealogy an others might join in.
• Newsletter [Tom] Will keep up the monthly newsletter and promote the 2026 Gathering.
Always looking for information or stories/ articles for it.
• Website [Tom] - archiving newsletters was a discussion on finding and getting missing
newsletters, Chris has some as well as Tom. MP library likes a certain form so that will
have to be looked at also.
• Europe trips:
o Tom: went to Spain for the Camino Francés de Santiago de Compostela, which he enjoyed
and he said did his best.
o Johnny: went with Olivia to Cornwall to SW coast walk – London, St Ives to Falmouth, 105
miles/day, and is willing to talk about it for one of the programs and write up for a
newsletter.
o Dot: went with Jean Ellis to Cornwall and Ireland and Orkenes islands. They had a
wonderful time and met many folks in Camborne, and found the place in Ireland where
her grandfather lived. She told us about a project to save the St. Just Methodist Chapel -
more to come.
o Cornish exchange student idea [Johnny] Broached the idea saying there may be much to
do before it happens.
• Global Cornish/Cornish Trade & Investment diaspora connection strategy [Johnny] Has
some talks with Jonie in Cornwall about this also. Need to look into it further.
The last item, about Global Cornish, caught my eye. After discovering my sweetheart's (Holly Odgers) Cornish mining ancestors in and around Goldsithney and Perranuthnoe, as a birthday gift I gave her some shares of Cornish Metals, Inc., a relatively new mining company in South Crofty. It's traded on the London and Toronto stock exchanges and we've enjoyed following its ups and downs, along with email announcements from the company. Holly has found it meaningful to be invested in Cornwall's mining future while honoring her Cornish ancestors' mining past.
Note: The share price indicated online is in GBX, which is "pence sterling." I was blissfully unaware of that when I invested in Holly's gift, incorrectly assuming it was "pounds sterling," so I initially purchased a modest $25 USD worth of shares. I'd intended to be about 10 times more generous than that and was able to make the necessary adjustment in a subsequent purchase.
[Disclaimer: I'm not a financial advisor (by any stretch), nor am I recommending investment in Cornish Metals.]