CERN clubs join the fiftieth anniversary party!

CERN's clubs are planning to celebrate the Organization's 50th anniversary by organising a variety of special events.

It's raining projects! CERN's clubs have chosen to celebrate the Organization's Golden Jubilee, each in its own style, by organising a whole host of anniversary events. While the Cine-Club continues to screen films made in the Member States on Thursday evenings, other clubs are organising special races and tournaments to honour CERN's 50th year. The CERN Rugby Club led the way in early April when it hosted a children's tournament which brought the Laboratory firmly into the view of its many young participants. On 24 April, the Cycling Club moves to centre stage as it takes its members on a unique 50-km discovery trip around the countryside above the tunnel of the future LHC.
The Croquet Club, the Running Club, the Horse Riding Club and the Golf Club will all be joining the party in May and June. After that, football, softball, cycling, pétanque and sailing are just some of the items on a sport-filled summer programme. But if music, rather than sport, is your food of life, don't miss the concert by the CERN choir on 8 August. Computer enthusiasts should hurry down to the CERN Micro Club and book their souvenir iPod, specially engraved with the 50th anniversary logo. Appropriate reminders of all these special events will be given in due course in the "Clubs" section of the Staff Association's Weekly Bulletin pages. But here are some first dates for your diaries: