I felt very privileged to be inducted President for 2003-2004 after taking over from John Flockton.
I had a dedicated team of Directors of
Secretary – Paul Murray
Treasurer – Pat Ingram
Club Service – Peter Clucas
Community Service – Tony Elphick
International Service – John Ireland
Vocational Service – Paul Milde
Youth Service – Tony Petersen
The year started with the departure of our bubbly Canadian exchange student Holly Chiasson who returned home to Canada after 12 months with us. Our outbound exchange student Alex Tibbets was in Ecuador and during the year we welcomed Luis Villacres from Ecuador.
The Bulletin editor in my year was Michael Knight who did a great job in producing the Bulletin with good content and many great photos. Those were the days of a printed Bulletin.
Gordon Braid and his committee did a great job of arranging a great mix of interesting and entertaining guest speakers.
Those of notable or somewhat infamous fame were Gerald Pieper (GM of Riverina Water), Phil Perram (the then GM of WWCC) and Daryl Maguire (the then Member for Wagga Wagga)
Peter Crozier came up with the innovative social idea called Wollundry Food and Wine Club which later became known as the Wheel Meal Deal. This proved very popular and ran for a number of years until interest waned.
Wollundry Rotary were the co-ordinators for the sponsorship of the Employee of the Year award for the combined Rotary Clubs of Wagga, Coolamon and Junee. This was a major event for Pride of Workmanship with Rotary and Wollundry receiving excellent publicity through the partnership with Wagga Chamber of Commerce.
Fund raising activities were very successful with Food and Wine Festival raising $7,963 Farmers Markets under the control of Pat Ingram and Col Duff raised $28,654 Race Day Markets $5,000 Sunday Markets under the watchful eye of Chairman John Egan raised $71, 331 and equipment hire $1,967 making a total of $114,915. This included a very successful Christmas on Main Street Markets.
We had two very successful vocational visits to RAAF Base for BBQ and guided tour of Ground Training Wing and to Lillier Lodge.
Our club hosted a very successful RYPEN camp at Borambola under the control of Neil Pinto. Quite a number of charities and organisations benefitted from our yearly total of Donations of $84,696, the most notable being $16,500 to Lillier Cancer Lodge.
We inducted 2 new members during the year of Michael Doyle and Rob Lawson. District Governor during my year was Peter Chivas from Cowra.
I became a feather duster on 22nd June 2004 and handed over the Charter of the club to Will Blackwell.
