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Feb 6 2011
Best wishes from President of South Africa (at the time) Nelson Mandela to Bolton MRT comes to light over twelve years later!
Yes you have read the above correctly, it’s amazing what our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE receives in the mail!
Returning from a recent ski-ing holiday, our Team Leader came home to an envelope marked ’Do not bend,’ ’Open with Care,’ ’Fragile.’
Opening it with considerable interest, it contained a letter from former long serving Bolton MRT team member (and ex team Training Officer and former Team Chairman) and GMP Missing Person Search Manager Chris Moody of Monton, Manchester.
In his letter Chris explained to Garry that way back in 1998 when Chris was in the team, the team had an idea to send its popular newsletter at the time, entitled ’RES-Q!’ to exotic locations or people and be signed or authenticated in some other way that confirmed where the newsletter had travelled to or been signed by. On return to ’the team’ the newsletter would then be auctioned for team funds or so the plan went.
Now Chris being Chris, he accepted this ’challenge’ big style, and totally unbeknown to the team membership sent a copy of the May 1998 issue of ’RES-Q’ to none other than the (at the time) President of South Africa Nelson Mandela. (At the time probably the most recognisable individual on earth!)
Well very kindly Nelson Mandela agreed to Chris’s request, and duly signed the cover of the newsletter in August 1998, with his office returning the newsletter to the team, which for reasons unknown did not get back to Chris in the UK until December 1998.
Chris in his letter to our Team Leader went on to explain ; “By which time the original idea had stalled within the team and the auction never took place, I kept the newsletter and attached correspondence at home, thinking that some other opportunity within the team would arise.”
Chris further explained that the signed newsletter gradually “ended up in the box that was rarely opened,” and still the team membership was totally unaware of this famous ’supporter’ of the team.
Well just recently, over twelve years later Chris opened ’the box’ and there was the long forgotten signed newsletter, and so Chris decided to send it to our Team Leader and let his little secret out of the bag.
So now our Team Leader on behalf of the team has a copy of our May 1998 issue of our newsletter at the time ’RES-Q!’ signed by none other than Nelson Mandela, offering his best wishes and dated 11th August 1998.
Furthermore Chris also enclosed a letter to him which accompanied the signed newsletter, bearing the official seal of the Office of the President of South Africa, dated 24th August 1998.
The letter from the Private Secretary of the Office of the President states;
The team has decided (very quickly- no thought needed) that the Nelson Mandela signed copy of ’RES-Q!’ and its accompanying letter of authentication from the Office of the President, will now be framed and take pride of place on the walls of our Base / HQ at Ladybridge Hall.
The team would like to thank Chris Moody for writing so successfully to Nelson Mandela and of course to Nelson Mandela himself for so very kindly signing the cover of the newsletter, and his office for returning it to the team.
And finally we are reminded of the old adage, “Some things are worth waiting for.”
What a talking point this will provide for future visitors to our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ.
By admin • General news