With 2011 drawing to an end the Surf Club put the new committee to a vote on the 4th of October. Current chairman Andrew Mandy is set to graduate come December so his boots needed to be filled.
Leadership positions in the Surf Club tend to be filled more by necessity than a hunger for power, and 2012 will see Peter Thorpe take over the burden of organising the ragged group of nearly 150 university surfers.