Green committee/club board numbers

[Adam Lawrence]

Does anyone know who first came up with the line that a green committee/board/whatever should have an odd number of members and that three is too many?

[Tyler Kearns]

Adam,

I can't find the exact quote in Scotland's Gift or Lines of Charm, but I always thought that line was attributed to CB Macdonald.

TK

[Keith Grande]

Pat Mucci?

Or perhaps Mackenzie in the Spirit of St. Andrews

[Tom_Doak]

I don't think it's MacKenzie's quote.  Don't remember it as Macdonald's, either, but I could be wrong.

Tom Simpson said some very colorful things about green committees, though I don't remember this line.

[Ulrich Mayring]

http://www.eigca.org/news/37626/Donald-Leslie-Harradine-1911-1996-

http://www.don-harradine-memorial.com/en_dhobituary.html

Ulrich

[Adam Lawrence]

Ulrich - thanks. I had seen it as a Don Harradine line too, but was convinced it was from another source originally. Cheers

[Bill Brightly]

Pat Mucci?

Close. Macdonald whispered it to Pat.