BILL BRADLEY- 2010
Reluctantly Gary handed over the Rotary Necklace to our very own vet, Bill Bradley in 2010. Bill has only been in the role for a few months and nothing disastrous has happened yet so we gather he’s going to be alright. Bill loves a great dog insemination or a cat dissection story and is also especially fond of his acronyms such as: ADR, BIP, DSH, EDUD, PPP and QOL (ask him to explain them). He has other favourites which cannot be shared in this company.
We have lost lot of good members over the years (for various work and personal reasons), however, we were very fortunate to have some great people join our club. People such as:
♦ Bob Critchley
♦ Kerryn Parry
♦ Marie Benvenuti
♦ Mark McArdle (now in politics with the LNP)
♦ Fernand Michot
♦ Dale Osbourne
♦ Les Ross
♦ Don Ryan
♦ Pat Ryan
♦ Takeo Sakiyama
♦ Greg Schnell
♦ Bob Sparks
♦ Charlie Summers
♦ Russell Thompson
♦ Bjorg Thor
♦ Alan Tudman
♦ Jeff Underwood
♦ Phil Smart
♦ Tony Parker and
♦ David Coleman
These were all great workers and unfortunately no longer members of our little Club. However, we have been extremely lucky over the past 10 years to have obtained some fantastic people. The following are not charter members but we are lucky enough to call them fellow friends and members:
♦ Denys Alt (the paddle pop stick man)
♦ Bill Bradley (current President)
♦ Bill Brereton (bulletin editor)
♦ Prue Byrnes (our very colourful and wonderful dry cleaner)
♦ Andrew Conroy
♦ Geoff Davies
♦ Colleen Dunn (Nurse and hard worker. Thanks for your efforts over the years Colleen as
Community Director, organising the Clean Up Aust Days, Mooloolaba Triathlons etc, and on top of
that, you are a recent mother)
♦ Nigel Fairbairn (school principal)
♦ Carmel Hulett
♦ John Kenny (treasurer)
♦ Gary Lynch
♦ Bob Murdoch (punter, plonk lover and purveyor of jokes)
♦ Sue Quinn
♦ Brian Robinson (ex pilot)
♦ Bob Thompson (BBQ cooking legend) and
♦ Alan Walter (ex Westpac manager).
These people combined with our six surviving Charter Members – Chris, David, Peter, Owen, Trevor and myself, make us what we are today.
Suffice to say that the RC of AH has had a colourful history in its 10 short years. Members have come and gone, leaving around 25 members of various backgrounds and personalities. The same can be said for the Presidents who have ruled over the ten years. Each has imparted their own slant on the club and I believe we are all richer for it.
Even though the motto of Rotary is “Service above Self”, I genuinely believe that it’s the people within the club who help make it what it is and what you can indeed get out of it. People who come to our meetings and are in the company of our members are always surprised to find how friendly and down to earth we are. We all enjoy each other’s company whilst working amongst and for the community to help make it a better place.
Where we will be in another 10 years we can only guess. I hope that we have the same close knit bunch of people involved with the club that we do now and we continue to function happily ever after...."Scott B"
Alan Walter - 2011
Bob Thompson - 2012
Sue Quinn - 2013
Prue Byrnes - 2014
Peter Darnell - 2015
Peter Darnell - 2016
John Malloy - 2017
Mike Storkey - 2018
Tony Freemen/ Mike Storkey/ Carmel Hulett/ Wendy Gilson - 2019
Wendy Gilson - 2020
Wendy Gilson - 2021
Skye Miller - 2022