This is another individually drawn Christmas card, but not one sent to me. It shows a clergyman pondering his chess moves while the choir sings a carol.
Inside is the greeting, “With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year, and all your games except one” and is signed by, H.M. Whitcombe. I have no record of him as a member of the Club in my time as Secretary (nearly 30 years), but one of our older members does vaguely recall the name.
The card was sent to Alan Mackenzie who was CCCC Champion in 1972 and (jointly) 1976. Alan, who died in 1997, spent over 40 years of his ministry as a Chaplain to the deaf for which he was awarded the OBE, and the card was sent to me by his widow.
