The committee is the management body with ultimate responsibility for the club. You can collectively email the committee or contact individuals by clicking on their name below. All ideas, comments, suggestions, gripes, feedback, etc are welcome; the more the merrier as it helps build member participation! Members are also welcome to attend Committee meetings.
Each committee member has an area of primary responsibility (their portfolio); their job is to develop plans for that area and make the plan happen, as well as ensuring problems in their area get sorted out.
| Position | Incumbent | Portfolios | |
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| President | Robert Dorning has been a glider pilot for 45 years. He is a software developer and is a Windows and Macintosh programmer. He has a small program for people with disabilities which sells around the world. He is a proud owner of LS6-b (VH-HDM). | ||
| Vice-President | Bernard Barry is a retired professor/business school director who now works part-time as an organisational psychologist – mainly in the financial services industry. He has 3,500 hours gliding, diamond badge and is learning to fly his Libelle 201B. | ||
| Secretary |
John Gwyther is a sem-retired software business entrepreneur who now works helping small technology companies grow. He has 2,000 hrs gliding with 2 Diamonds and 700 hrs power in his log-books. He owns a Super Ximango (VH-ZAO) and an ASH26E (VH-HKR) which he flies from his airstrip in Gippsland. John is an avid wave flyer. | ||
| Treasurer | Peter Carey is a retired engineer and businessman, now part time teacher of high school mathematics. A tug pilot since 1970, he has 3,000 hours power and about 500 hours gliding experience. He started flying in 1952 and earned his Silver C in 1956 and Diamond badge in 2000. Peter has been on the Committee for 13 years. | ||
| Member | Louise O’Grady had her first glider flight in 1993 but didn’t start gliding properly until 1997, when she had her first solo flight at Seighford airfield in the UK, and bought a share in an Ka6e. Shortly afterwards she gained her JAR-PPLA. Since emigrating to Australia in 2005 she spends pretty much every weekend at Benalla during the summer months, flying cross country in her ASW19b. | ||
| Member | Robert Pugh: I first started flying gliders at the club in 1977. Due to other interests and career developments, I left the club in1979, but always knew that I would continue flying and would one day return. I obtained my PPL in 1991 and few socially for many years before returning to the club in 2002 and re-connected with the club as a tug pilot. I was have been Tug Master for 3 years and was very pleased to be accepted as a member of the committee this year. |
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| Member | Don Ridgeway | ||
| Member | Mark Goodley | ||
| Member | Tim Edgecombe (resigned 15th March 2012) | ||
| Member | Jonathan McAliece (appointed 15th March 2012) |
Meetings
- The Committee usually meets on the third Thursday of each month except January.
- Meetings start at 7.00pm and are usually at the Geebung Polo Club hotel, 85 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn East.
- Members are welcome to attend but please email the secretary to let him know you are coming or in case there is a change of venue.
- The chairman reserves the right to ask members to leave if an agenda item dictates; members do not have an automatic right to participate in the proceedings.
- The Annual General Meeting is normally held in November at Benalla.
- The minutes of Committee meetings are stored in the Members Only area here as well as being posted on the noticeboard at Benalla.