25 February 2004
Hello Fellows,
What a wonderfully successful golf day and evening our club enjoyed last Thursday.
I repeat my congratulations to Niall King who received a Paul Harris Fellow last Thursday night. It gave me a great feeling of pride and satisfaction to present Niall with his PHF. Pride, because I was able to present Niall with his PHF in front of members and supporters of the Trish Foundation. Satisfaction, because Niall has worked extremely hard for the club and during my relatively short time in the club Niall has always been available to help whenever asked to do so, very rarely does he say “no I can’t do it” and he does things in a quite and un assuming manner, never looking for praise.
The Golf day was enjoyed by 90 golfers who had many and varied stories to tell about their day and 120 people attended the evening dinner and auction. The day resulted in raising funds of approximately $17,000 for the Trish foundation. I know that there were a few different people who assisted with the golf day and I thank them for that, but from view the main driver and the person that made it all happen was Niall King. Thank you Niall.
I have been in Melbourne since last Friday and as a result unable to attend the President’s meeting on Friday night. President elect Keith Byrn attended in my absence and will brief me this week on the meeting.
Also, when I returned on Monday morning I received messages advising the passing, on Thursday 19 February 2004, of GORDON GILLETT. Gordon was President of our club during the early 1980’s. A funeral service, was held within the
South Chapel, Rookwood Crematorium, on Tuesday, February 24, 2004.
Keith