Who am I?

There is many a yarn to be told from each and every one of us, and we had the pleasure of a few from Graeme Kennedy and our President Gerard McNamara.

Graeme indulged us first. He was born in Seddon in Melbourne, and as a young man, whilst working as an Accountant in the Public Service, expressed a vague interest in the Army Reserve.  He spurned their offer when advised that it would involve too much of his spare time. They didn't forget him though and later rang him with an offer he couldn't refuse:
" Cheap Piss, Heaps of Sheilas and we will make you an Officer"

Now didn't this tick all the boxes for a young Aussie bloke? - so he became an esteemed Officer in the Australian Army Reserve (and we have felt all the safer for it!).

Graeme went on to become a partner in Deloitte's and a member of the Williamstown Rotary Club. His other great love, apart from Sandy, are the Williamstown Football Club and the mighty Bulldogs.

Gerard was born up the road from Graeme in Kingsville, and is a Bulldogs supporter.  He too entered the Public Service and found himself in Canberra with Ernst & Young.

He and Katherine were charter members of the Jerrabomberra Rotary Club in 1998.  Whilst there they undertook the refurbishment of a school in Tonga, a RAWCS project in Vanuatu, Rotarians Against Malaria and participated in the Rotary Friendship Exchange (which is like one continuous make-up around the world).

He retired to Torquay in 2011 where his brother lives,  and was surprised to meet Mike Reed again who had visited Jerrabomberra on a business trip. His hobby  as an Amatuer Travel Planner has given them both marvellous holidays, and he volunteers with St Vincents de Paul, Geelong No Interest Loan Scheme, Gardening, is an eclectic reader and of course Rotary.

An attentive reader will have noted the inherited defect of both men - this mad passion for the Footscray football team, but otherwise they appear to be men of good judgement and character.