Our 2017 GOOD CITIZENSHIP AWARDS


                CONGRATULATIONS to our 
         GOOD CITIZEN AWARD  winners...
Today we celebrated our 34th Good Citizenship awards. It was a lovely morning with six very special young people from three local schools being nominated for our award by their schools.
Our only stipulation is that the students chosen .... meet our criteria of 

(1) MERITORIOUS CONDUCT 
 (both  in and out of the classroom) .

(2) DILIGENCE 
(in performing Alocated tasks)

(3)  COMPASSION (towards others) What a wonderful group of students were given their awards again this year . It is always  so uplifting to hear about such fantastic young people who recieve these awards each year.
It always "MAKES our YEAR" when we hear the stories about what these young people  do.

Please enjoy    
     Photo's and story below of our awards morning .............



President John Vaughan welcomes everyone to our AWARDS morning

John Edgington presented Stephanie Brennan (North Entrance Campus)  (Glendale School)
Stephanie thought it was fun to be out the front hearing such good things said about her..

Stephanie thought it was fun to hide behind John, what a lovely young girl....

Stephanie loved her special awards though....

Stephanie proudly showing the world her awards...with the help of John V and John E

Another award to Glendale student  Savannah Loiterman (Narara Campus) Presented by John Starr.

Savannah and her sister accepted the award....

Judi Edgington then presented Alydia  Dumpert (Point Clare School)


Alydia proudly showing her awards.

John Edgington Presented Tony Bush for his award.

John telling us all about TONY

Tony proudly shows off his award....


Stephanie doing some baby sitting after the awards

 Carolin Frohmuller presented Student Marley Irvine .




Marley proudly shows us her awards

Don Frohmuller presented Mason  Colwell a very proud little brother Brady  clings to big brother Mason.

Mason and his little brother Brady (Who was very excited)

Mason receiving his award from President  John Vaughan  watched closely by Brady

Mason is helped by his little brother Brady to show us his awards


Dep. Principal Kevin Lane Glenvale school Narara  thanks our Probus Club for the awards.



Accepting the  school shield for Glendale School.....Kevin Lane 

Dep. Principal Kevin Lane and Karen Campbell ( Assistant Principal) both from Narara Campus Glenvale school,
 proudly accept the shield for Glenvale 

 Principal Scott Campbell and Dep. Principal Jane Young accepted the shield for Point Clare School

Jane Young and Scott Campbell  with the shield for Point Clare School

Tegan  Perkins (Year 10 Advisor Henry Kendall Hogh School) Thanking our club for the awards..

Tegan accepted the shield for her school and was rightly very proud of Marley and Mason


The schools we give our special  awards to are 
GLENDALE school.
POINT CLARE  Primary School
HENRY KENDALL High School .
Two students are selected by each school to  receive our prestigious awards.......... These awards are  highly valued by each student and look great in their CV when they start looking for employment, we have been  told by past recipients of these awards  that they  are looked on very favourably by prospestive employers. The students who recieved these awards are rightly very proud of them as are there parents, carers, teachers etc.
 I have included below some email comments recieved back from some of the people involved in the awards . 
WELL DONE To all those who made this awards morning so special and a special thanks to those who provided the lovely morning tea that everyone enjoyed so much...

                                       Thank you Message sent from Jane Young.

Thank you very much for the photos. It was a lovely ceremony today. 
We'll done to you and all the club members.
Regards, 

Jane 
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                                  Message sent to Caroline and Don Frohmuller.
                                               from  Masons Family
Belatedly, we just wanted to thank you and Probus West Gosford for providing the “Good Citizenship Award” to students of three local schools, in particular Mason.

It was both an honour and privilege to meet you and provide background information for Mason.  As parents we are humbled by his achievements at such a young age and are often in awe of his accomplishments.  In short, we are proud parents and is difficult for us to express our feelings.  We were surprised by his nomination from the school as he is a quiet achiever.  We know Mason holds this accolade in high esteem – so much so he rushed home updated his CV immediately and rearranged his book shelf placing this award in a prominent spot. 

We are indebted to Probus West Gosford for this award and the on-going support they provide to the local community.

Please pass our sincere thanks to the President, John, and Committee members for this award . To be in attendance to see your Club in action on Thursday was praiseworthy and uplifting.  You certainly made us feel very welcomed and embraced Brady.  Thank you to all the people behind the scenes for making the morning special (and not to mention the delicious morning tea) as well as celebrating the achievements of our young citizens – Australia’s future.  We really enjoyed hearing about the other recipients – so much talent at such a young age!

We wish you and Probus West Gosford good luck and fortune for many years to come.

May we take this opportunity to wish you season’s greetings and a safe and prosperous New Year.

Thank you, just doesn’t seem to be enough, so thank you! thank you! thank you!

Kind regards

Lea, Pat (& Brady) Colwell.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR PROBUS CLUB

                                        Our Probus club,  
"The Probus Club of Gosford West"  had it's 38th birthday today....  












Today we had a special birthday and invited people to dress in something colourful if they would like to to celebrate the occcasion.
We also asked that all past presidents were something suitable to have a photo taken that would go into the archives and also hopefully be published in the Probus magazine.. 
We were lucky enough  to have 9 past presidents in attendance today and our current President . So there were ten in the photo.  Some were away and unable to be in the photo. It was great to see Derek and Joyce back with us after a long absence due to ill health. Also great to see John Helm again after an illness absence, Betty is unfortunately still not well.   A BIG Thank you to those who took part in organising the great food and for those who served it .


(Back Row ) :    John Edgington Jerry Dolan Mick Ryan, Barry Turton Derek Crawford ,John Helm,
(Front Row):   Fred Bell, John Vaughan, Phyllis Bell, Judi Edgington

                 

President John Vaughan assisted by Fred, Phyllis, and Judi. Cutting our birthday cake.
While other past presidents watch on.

Happy Birthday To  US



Many members  dressed in colourful garb to celebrate the day, 
                                     See pictures below.



                              
Elain and Don in technicolour, Elaine wore a very special hat....


John Starr in his Olympic 2000 clothes was very colourful 





The flowers on Elain Fry's hat were very special, MADE OF SOAP....
Bill Bowhay came in colour
                
Even our  minutes secretary Carolin dressed for the occasion
Lional, Bill, John, Don, John, Jerry, Elain, Pat , all looking very colourful.


DON.... Was he a drinks waiter of was he a bookmaker.... 
Dolly bought a friend with her to enjoy the party...

Margaret in colour Fred and Phyllis dressed for the President photo....

A lovely morning was had by all, enjoyed by our members and guests  Pat and Max who took membership applications with them.... Hope to see them again at our next meeting....

To all those who were at our birthday , thank you for taking part , To those who were absent , "We Missed You"

















Tuesday 23 Rd May Lakes Grammer School

On Tuesday  23rd May a group of nine  of our members again trevelled to The Lakes Grammer School to do mock interviews with year 10 students on Careers Day. 
This all went well again and those who attended were again very impressed with the students. 
What a great bunch they were, well mannered, respectful and doing well in school.  
                          They were a credit to the school. 

Thank you to those who again attended this very worth while excursion....