The Thursday Club had its first meeting on Thursday 4 August 1983. There were about fifty original members who elected Sister Annunciata (1916-2008) as President, Margaret Spencer as Secretary and Alice McGrattan as Treasurer, a role she has held ever since. The purpose of the Thursday Club was to provide a facility for senior parishioners and friends to engage in the spiritual and social life of the Church. Spiritual activities included being prayer partners for and giving bibles to the children making their Confirmation and First Communion, washing the sacred vessels and altar linens, leading the rosary during the month of May and having retreats. Social events included Saint Andrew's and Saint Patrick's Day celebrations, Christmas shopping trips, bus runs and holidays in Ireland and Wales. The Club donated to charities such as the Saint Vincent de Paul Society and Ayrshire Hospice. Meetings took place - not on Thursdays as might be expected - but on Tuesday afternoons in the Parish Centre then the Civic Centre. The Club met on Thursdays till 12 September 2006 when the change to Tuesdays was made. The name was changed to the Tuesday Club but after a week it reverted to the original one. On 13 June 2008, there was a Thursday Club Twenty-Five Years Celebration in the Parish Centre. The photograph below was taken during the meeting of 25 September 2007.
In April 2017, it was decided that the Club would cease to exist. The last meeting of the Thursday Club was on 13 June 2017 when members enjoyed a meal in the Civic Centre.
People
who have been members of the Thursday Club include:Ellen Baillie neé Cassidy (1910-93)
Elsie Brodie neé Delahunt
Helen Brown (1927-2013)
Isa Brown neé Smyth (1916-91)
Margaret Caddies
Mary Calder
Claire Cameron neé Murphy
Rose Carpenter
Kathleen Conway neé Carry
Effie Cooper
Betty Dailly neé Sloan
Muriel Doherty
John Dolan
Moira Donnelly
Sadie Dorrian neé Smith
Sheila Douglas
????? Doull
Peggie Duffy
Natalina Farro
Betty Foran
????? Forrest
May Gaw (-2008)
Lena Gillen
Margaret Gillen
Annie Gordon
Maria Hilferty
May Hillen
Addie Hissey neé McCabe
????? Inglis
Rose Keegan
????? Kelly
Maureen Kelly
Sadie Kelly neé Smith
Sheila Kennedy neé Tonner (1921-96)
Jean Lamont
Cathy Langan (1910-1992)
Susan Little
Agnes Long neé McQuade (1923-2006)
Denis Long (1921-2005)
????? Loughray
Josephine Lundie (-2007)
Fiona Lyon
Mary Magee neé McMullan (1912-88)
Chrissie McAteer neé McGovern (1918-88)
Anne McCabe
Mary McCabe
Lilli McCulloch neé Behan (1920-2011)
Catherine McEvoy neé Smith
Mary McEvoy
Anne McEwan
Mary McGee
Pam McGlynn neé Moran
Ella McGoogan
Alice McGrattan neé Tonner (1925-2013)
Greta McGreevy neé Convery
Eva McIlhiney neé McDonald
Edna McKinnon
Isa McLaughlin
James McLaughlin
Margaret McLaughlan neé Aitken (1919-2005)
????? McMahon
Mary McSpurran
Patricia McVeigh neé Loughray (-2013)
Mary Mitchell neé Kernahan (deceased)
Annie Monan neé Erskine (1908-98)
Nora Moore
Mary Moran neé Morrison
Martha Murphy
Patsy Murphy (-1988)
Julia Paterson neé McKay (1917-2017)
Nettie Retzbach
Nan Richard
Betty Robertson
Alice Russell neé McGowan (1913-85)
Agnes Scott neé Keegans (deceased)
May Shanks neé Rickard (1917-90)
Sister Dolores (deceased)
Sister Immaculata, sometimes known as Wee Mac (deceased)
Sister Mary Annunciata (1916-2008)
Sister Mary Vincent
Margaret Sloan
Sadie Sloss
Anne Smith neé McEvoy
Margaret Spencer (1913-92)
Katie Stewart
Mamie Stewart
????? Taylor
Margaret Tracy
Theresa Walker neé Sloan
????? Watson
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