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History
The Club was founded on the 21st October 1921, under the inspiration of the Dean, the Reverend Joseph Wellington Hunkin. The Rules stated that the club should be comprised of between 20 - 30 undergraduate members and Honorary members elected from the postgraduates and Fellows. The Club was managed by a President, Vice President who also acted as Treasurer, a Secretary and a Committee of two, elected at the beginning of each term by the General Meeting of the Club. It claimed to be responsible for the organisation of 'comic relief' in the College and endeavoured to produce at least one public performance a term.
(For further information regarding the history of the Co-optimists, see C.N.L. Brooke, History of Gonville and Caius College (1996), pp.262-3, which also cross-refers to a number of articles in the College magazine, The Caian)