What a great turnout for our meeting with 21 in attendance. 12 members, 4 guests (Edwina Hutchinson, Peter Sutton and John Wallace plus our guest speaker Bart Traynor) and 5 partners (Allison Borland, Helen Busch, Pam Hawkins, Jenny O’Dwyer and Roslyn Tomlinson).
A delicious three course meal was served up by Kouma as usual.
Our gust speaker Bart Traynor a Clinical Psychologist, who happens to be the son in law of our member Jim & Pam Hawkins. Bart held the floor with the members and guests listening intensely to his stories, his path to where he is today, his study history and his thoughts on how things can be changed to improve the system in the future.
Over the years Bart has had some scary interventions and assessment encounters with mental health patients in their own homes. To have the skills and training to handle these situations and be able to calm the patient down and bring them around to a point where they will accept help is to be greatly admired.
Thank you, Bart for a wonderful address and giving us an insight into the world of clinical psychology.
Harold Busch advised the meeting that there are two rosters out on Club Runner. The Bunnings Sausage Sizzles, and the fortnightly Hub Preparation.
The following are on the Sausage Sizzle Roster – If you can’t make it please get a replacement or let someone know.
Friday 10th April: Uwe Seifert, Neil Baldwin, Col Welch, Barbara Burnheim, Neil Jones, Rob Thomson, Bill Waller, Noel Hodges & Bill Rex.
Sunday 7th June: Uwe Seifert, Peter Tomlinson, Rob Thomson, Allison Borland, Ron Borland, Col Welch, Pauline Armstrong, Bill Rex & Neil Jones.
At our forthcoming meeting on the 17th February we will outline what small jobs are required to be covered at our club working bee on Saturday 21st February from 9am to 11am. If you can’t make the meeting of the 17th February but are available on the 21st February for 2 hours please let myself or Harold Busch know.
