Belsouth Awards

Presidents of the Club

The Belsouth club presidents are as follows

  • 1977-1978 – Tony Drew
  • 1979-1981 – Gianni D’Addario
  • 1982-1984 – Owen Henness
  • 1985-1986 – Ian Boxall
  • 1987 – Brian Higgins
  • 1988 – Steve Curry
  • 1989 – Paddy Flynn
  • 1990 – Geoff Skillen
  • 1991-1992 – Bryce French
  • 1993-1997 – Geoff Cameron
  • 1998 – vacant
  • 1999 – David McCann
  • 2000-2005 – David Calvert
  • 2006 – Graham Rodda
  • 2007-2014 – Lynne Hellyer
  • 2015-2017 – Wayne Harding
  • 2018 – Andrew Higginson
  • 2019 – 2021 – Rohan Smith
  • 2022-2023 – Dot Hendrie

David Calvert Volunteer of the Year Award

The Executive Committee of the Club, may each year select an awardee for the David Calvert Award.

The awardee must be a volunteer who, in that year, was not a member of the Executive Committee and gave outstanding service furthering the values and operation of the Club.

Previous recipients of the David Calvert award are as follows:

  • 2010 – Adam Volmari
  • 2011 – Dick Gallagher
  • 2012 – Lynne Whitehead and Rob Unger
  • 2013 – Carolyn Weiller and Katherine Jeffries
  • 2014 – Andrew Higginson
  • 2015 – Karen and Andrew Mann
  • 2016 – Alanna Cresp
  • 2017 – Spencer Whitney
  • 2018 – Ian Houghton
  • 2019 – Erwin McRae

Belsouth Life Membership

Members of the Club may, at the Annual General Meeting, elect to Life Membership of the Club any person who they desire to recognise:

  1. as having given outstanding and extended service to the Club, or
  2. who has made an exceptional contribution to the advancement of the Club.

The person should have been directly associated with and actively engaged in promoting the values and aims of the Club.

A person elected to Life Membership shall for the purposes of these Conditions of Award be deemed to be a financial member of the Club.

Previous recipients of the Life Membership are as follows:

  • 1994 – Bryce French
  • 2002 – Warren Smith, Andrea Hotchkiss
  • 2003 – Geoff Cameron, Ken Carter
  • 2005 – Graham Grayson, Ian Hotchkiss
  • 2007 – David Calvert, David Wynn
  • 2008 – Nick Jackson
  • 2014 – Lynne Hellyer
  • 2018 – Spencer Whitney, Carolyn Weiller
  • 2019 – Wayne Harding
  • 2020 – Dick Gallagher