On 26th November 2014 council members attended a farewell dinner in honour of the retiring Rector of Leeds, Reverend Tony Bundock. Tony has been our Honorary Chaplain for the last nine years, regularly speaking at our Annual Dinner. Every year we have been welcomed by Tony to St. Peter’s at Leeds (Leeds Minster – formerly known as Leeds Parish Church) for a service at which the Leeds Association has been mentioned in the notices. He has been Rector of Leeds for nine years and has lived in the city for twenty years, being initially appointed Team Rector of Seacroft in 1994.
At the dinner, held in Leeds, the President of the LAE, Andrew Kibler, presented Tony with an engraved glass tankard as a memento of his time as our Chaplain and thanked him for his friendship and guidance. In particular Tony has recently assisted with the approval by the church Diocese for a plaque to be presented to Leeds Minster and to be mounted on the wall in the church to commemorate the connection with the association. The plaque has been planned to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the formation of the Leeds Association of Engineers. (More news about this proposed plaque will appear later.)
In retirement he will serve in the Diocese of Oxford as ‘House of Duty’ team vicar. Tony’s last Sunday at Leeds Minster was on October 12th 2014. We wish him well in his new position and hope that he will keep in contact with the association in the future.
.( The photograph was taken by Jas. Shergill – Immediate Past President )