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Who might work to improve the status of women?
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Trust us - it takes all sorts! |
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We have included here a mini-bio on our Club members to show you how diverse a group we really are. If you would like to contact one of the members, please email your question to: secretary@zontabotanybay.org
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June Beattie
After a couple of decades in the IT sector, June certainly can call herself a trail blazer in this “man’s world”. As it happens, she is too busy having a good time as a prize-winning golfer and the organiser extraordinaire of our annual Charity Golf Day For many years Jill Ingrey, a recently retired and greatly missed member of the Club, worked on this project with June.
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Judy Bendl
Judy retired from her full-time teaching position several years ago but now works part-time for Macquarie University, assessing and mentoring student teachers, and at the Office of the Board of Studies dealing with issues related to HSC and SC examinations. Between these gigs, Judy and husband Hans love to travel as often as possible (most recently to China) and are kept busy with two sons and several grandchildren between two states. |
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Gayle Cale
Gayle is married with 3 children - a son and two daughters, the younger daughter having married not so long ago. After being a Primary Teacher / Teacher Librarian for 34 years, Gayle joined the Club in 2006. In her "spare time", she is interested in family, reading, dance, theatre and travel. |
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Julie Campbell
A recent addition to the Club, whose bio is coming soon. |
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Sue Culley
After becoming a friend of the Club and kindly auditing our Club books for the year 2004 - 2005, Sue has since become a member of the Club. Sue is a certified practising accountant who works in an accountancy firm in our local area and has enjoyed getting in to many of the practical projects of the Club.
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Janys Da Rin
A recent addition to the Club, whose bio is coming soon.
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Pam Davidson
Vice President Pam Davidson is also the legendary long-standing minutes secretary of our Club. In real life, she is a registered nurse with very broad experience in health and a degree in health management - plus an apparently very durable sense of humour, if the “fun” of taking all these minutes is anything to go by! |
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Robyn Donaldson
In the hectic industry of aviation, Robyn is an office manager who has shared her great organisational skills with other Club members. In 2005, she took up the Board position of Correspondence Secretary, keeping all members of the Club organised and well-informed. |
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Margaret Gerkens
A recent return to the Club, after living interstate for several years, whose bio is coming soon.
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Pam Lancaster
Pam is the coordinator of our Club's efforts to support the Zonta Birthing Kit project, and has shepherded us through the process and reports during 2005 - 2007. About 1000 kits were assembled each year at working bees during the winter months to be later carted to the post office by Pam and her husband Terry) to go to Vietnam & Madagascar. |
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Natasha Langovski
A practicing psychologist in her professional life, Natasha is now a member of the Club Board as the Chair of the Status of Women Committee and will be the District 24 Service & Status of Women Committee Chair in the 2008-2010 Zonta Biennium. She is the organiser of initiatives to include more young women into Zonta activities in our Area. |
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Marilyn Lowder
A dedicated mother to three children for thirty two years, Marily was also a schoolteacher for 25 years and actively involved with Parents Centres Australia for 30 years, including 12 years as a childbirth educator. She managed to fill in her "spare time" by being a part-time tour guide at the nuclear reactor for a year, serving on the Children's Services sub-committee of Sutherland Council, being a Cub-leader for 5 years and active in P&Cs for 17 years. Now with just a husband and two cats to share the house, Marilyn is a first aid instructor with St John Ambulance and a maker of exquisite quilts. |
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Sue Richards
Sue grew up in Sydney then travelled extensively, spending 6 years living in Canada prior to returning to Sydney to marry. Over the past 18 years she has been an administrative manager in the public school system. With 2 adult children and having recently retired, Sue recently walked around Italy and Greece for 6 weeks with her husband. They plan to travel much more often, and in the meantime, Sue has time and energy for various voluntary/fund raising activities, golf, walking and working out at the gym.
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Bronlyn Schoer
Bronlyn Schoer was a Charter member and past President, who is passionate about educational opportunity for women & girls - in her real life she was the inaugural principal of Lucas Heights Community School from 1992 to 2005, then the only kindergarten to Y12 government school in NSW). Since retirement from school life in January 2006, Bronlyn & her husband Gary (a long time supporter of our Club) have re-invigorated their travel agenda, most recently venturing to the Antarctic again in early 2008. |
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Ann Selle
Ann Selle is a past-President of the Club and past holder of most other Board positions as well! She freely admits that needlework was her favourite subject at school and she had former incarnations as a high school teacher and owner/operator of her own boutique before becoming involved in the antiques industry. She designed the Zonta Breast Care Cushion in 1994, since when she has championed the project across Australia and now around the world, most recently to the city of Skopje in Macedonia. |
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Anne Smith
A recent addition to the Club, whose bio is coming soon.
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Deborah Weirs
A nurse educator, Deborah has recently completed her Master of Education degree but is now experiencing HSC as a mother. She was an advocate in 2004 of our involvement in the birthing kits project, and of our sponsorship of Rukia Shabani at the St Jude’s School in Tanzania. |
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