Herewith the third installment of BIOs
Another one of our fellow students Glenys James (now Clark):
I left Telopea Park High at the end of
1961. In 1962 I was accepted into a
secretarial course, under a bond to the Public Service, at the Canberra
Technical College (now TAFE).
The Public Service had a scheme whereby at the end of
eight months you were placed in a department as a stenographer/secretary. I worked for four years in the Public Service
until my resignation from a secretarial position with the Leader of the
Opposition in the Senate.
During my marriage I had a number of varied
secretarial positions, e.g. Health Insurance, a printing company, Legislative
Assembly, Senate Standing Committees and the Canberra College of Advanced
Education (now the Canberra University).
I have two children and have resided in Port Macquarie
for 26 years. I am a keen golfer and
belong to the Port Macquarie Golf Club where I have held positions on the
Club’s Board of Directors and the Ladies Committee.
And our second BIO for this posting is from Graham Howe: University of NSW Bachelor of Surveying 1968.
Registered
Surveyor ACT 1969, NSW 1970.
University
of NSW BSc Engineering (mining) 1972.
1967 Married
Broken Hill lass whom I met at uni, moved to Broken Hill and a job in the
mining industry 1970.
Two children
of first marriage the first a boy with intellectual disability resulted in my
presidency for 28 years of a Broken Hill Charity for Intellectually disabled
people. My daughter is now a paediatrician.
Second
marriage to another Broken Hill lass 1977 produced 2 girls the youngest now 30
married and living in England. The elder daughter is a graphic designer in the
Central Coast of N.S.W.
In 1991 after
20 years in the Mining Industry parted company and formed a fulltime surveying
consultancy in Broken Hill after having moonlighted in Surveying as a sideline
to mining. I am now training a young protégé to take over on my retirement hopefully
in a few years.
Now heavily
involved in the Anglican Church but sadly single again.
More BIOs to be posted, so keep on checking the BLOG.
I was part of the 'High Road Australia' team that handed over this Christian wilderness-based leadership-training group to the Anglican Youth Dept in '95. We walked across the Blue Mountains for 16 days in torrential rain, rescuing some trapped Dutch tourists on the way.
ReplyDeleteNaturally, I was the oldest on the team, led by Steve Melbourne. Wonder what became of HRA. phil.