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Name |
Accreditation / Positions |
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Norma Turner |
Judge |
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Geoff Turner |
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Gordon Ferguson |
Referee |
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Ann Ferguson |
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Gladys Marsh |
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Val Baker |
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Stanley Rogerson |
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Jean Rogerson |
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Harry Schofield |
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Jochim Marggraff |
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Michele Burley-Jones |
Referee |
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Di Macey |
Treasurer |
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Lee Macey |
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Sharron Hook |
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David Hook |
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Deceased |
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Joan Ferguson |
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Suzanne Richley |
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May Williams |
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Bill Williams |
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Photos
Sue Richley, JF, Geoff Turner, Val Baker, Norma Turner
Life members with Duncan Armstrong
Bill and May Williams, Bill held the No 1 Referee Ticket
Joan Ferguson (deceased)
Sadly we lost a lovely lady, Life Member Joan Ferguson last year. Joan was great friends with our Life Members Geoff & Norma Turner, who still do so much for the club. Joan is greatly missed in the club & will always be remembered.
THE STORY OF JOAN FERGUSON
by her son, Darryll Ferguson
Our family moved to Umina from Balmain in 1961. Mum stayed at home with the kids while Dad travelled to Sydney every day to work. Mum knew no one her age in the area so she decided to meet some people, and when she read in the Woy Woy paper about a swimming club, she enrolled my sisters Suzanne and Cheryl and myself in the club. This was the beginning of Mum's 46 year love affair with the Woy Woy Swimming Club.
We swam in the salt water pool at Woy Woy, near Fisherman's Wharf. Mum convinced dad to help by laying out the lane ropes and setting up the blocks. As more swimmers joined, sometimes we wouldn't finish until 10.30 pm. Eventually Dad couldn't get there early enough to fit everything in with his travelling to work but Mum stayed on & enrolled our youngest brother Geoffrey as well.
Mum helped push the Council to build a new pool & this happened in the late 60's. Mum was there for the opening. Mum went on to do more in the club, from Timekeeping to Gear Steward then Judge and Referee. She met many people and made good friends, notably Geoff & Norma Turner and the three of them travelled to all swimming club meetings and country swimming events together.
When the pool was pulled down in 2003, the three of them tavelled to Gosford every Friday night to keep the Woy Woy Club alive. When the soil was turned for the new Peninsula Leisure Centre, Mum, my sister Suzanne Richley and Geoff & Norma Turner, all Life Members of the club, were there for the event. I know Mum was rapt with this, she sent me photos of all the building stages. When the PLC opened, the three musketeers, Mum, Geoff & Norma were all there & helped build up the club in the new pool, timekeeping, judging and refereeing.
My Mum's life was devoted to my father, Ray and to her four children but she had another love, and it was the Woy Woy Swimming Club. I must say that after Dad passed away and all the children left home, the club stood in to help her with friendship and good company for the rest of her life.
Thank you one and all in the club who touched Mum's life because you may not know it, but you helped make Mum's life full of joy.
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