Ingrid Mcgaughey: president
Ingrid has been president of the Tasmanian state branch for the last 3 years, and last year was elected to National council as Vice President. She was the doctor at Mawson in 1998 and Macquarie Island in 2000 and has since written a number of articles for the Aurora including the history of huts on Macquarie Island, the cat eradication project and contemporary accounts of life on station.
Our Council
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ANARE CLUB NATIONAL COUNCIL 2010-2011Ray McMahon: vice president
Ray has had lengthy involvement with the ANARE Club, joining in 1964. He was on the National council between 1966 and 1974, and was the club president in 1968 and 2003. He was the Officer in Charge (OIC or Station leader) in 1963 at Mawson.
David Ellyard: treasurer
David Ellyard has been active in the ANARE Club for 40 years. For almost that long he has been the MC at Midwinter dinners of the NSW branch. He wintered in 1966 as the cosmic ray physicist at Mawson. In 2003 he was the ANARE Club representative on Voyage 2 of the Aurora Australis. spending a week at Davis. David is a science communicator, writer and public speaker with a particular interest in the issue of climate change.
Bob Watson: secretary
Bob has been a member of the ANARE Club since returning from Mawson 1963 where he served as a Met Observer. Bob states ' I never took any active role in the Club, until I succumbed to pressure from several present and past council members to take over the Secretary position from Peter McGrath in 2008...' Needless to say we are pleased he succumbed!
Bob still works full time in the Electricity Supply industry in Distribution System Design & Maintenance which helps tp pay for those overseas holidays. His interests are Sailing, Travel, Renovating, Music & Grand children. Denise Allen: social secretary
Denise has been involved with the ANARE committee in Melbourne and New South Wales. She is also responsible for the Northern Territory - Alice Springs web pages on the ANARE web site. Denise workes as a meteorological observer initially, and since 1989 has been a forecaster . She has had plenty of time 'down south' and has wintered at Macquarie Island in 1985, Mawson 1986 and 2005, Davis 1988 and 2007 and Casey 1992
Marilyn Boydell: general council member, sales officer
Marilyn has been on the Tasmanian state branch for 3 years and has been the primary contact for talking to current ANARE expeditioners about the ANARE Club in the predeparture briefings at the AAD. Marilyn has also been on national council for the last year as a general council member and sales officer. Marilyn was the station leader at Casey in 2000 and 2006, Mawson 2002.
Brett Free: general council member
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Brian Harvey: general council member
Brian first joined the ANARE CLUB in 1976 after 3 winters down south (Mawson 1977, Macquarie Island 1979 and Casey 1981) as the diesel mechanic. He became motivated to become involved in the club administration in 1987 after the sinking of NELLA DAN. He has served on national council for many years and has been president several times, most recently in 2007-2009. Brian has been involved in many ANARE Club projects including the Nella Dan, Huskies Jubilee and is currently working on a project with Susan Gordon Brown to record the stories of tradespeople whom have worked ‘down south’.
Peter Koenig: general council member
Peter is a current serving member of the Royal Australian Navy and has recently completed 37 years service however will leave the service in Mar 2011. A Hydrograhic Surveyor by trade, he headed south to Casey in the summer season of 92/93 with the RAN Hydrographic Service to carry out surveying duties on the approaches to Casey Station. Peter previously served on the National Council in 2004/05 and has more recently has served on the National Council since 2008. Though only having a small taste of a trip south, Antarctica has been an enduring passion for Peter.
Damian Love: general council member
Damian has been on the National council for the last 3 years. He has been down to Antarctica 3 times, employed as a carpenter- to Casey in 1999, Mawson in 2002 (where he worked on the wind turbine project) and Macquarie Island in 2005.
Richard Unwin: general council member
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Margaret Whitelaw: general council member, membership officer
Margaret is also new to national council, but is well known to NSW ANARE Club members where she has been the branch vice president for the last 4 years. During that period Margaret has also served as Acting Secretary, been responsible for the NSW Newsletter and helped with the organisation of Midwinter Dinners. Margaret spent the 2004/2005 summer at Davis as a scientist collecting fossil shell from lakes in the Vestfold Hills as part of her organic geochemistry research.
Ralph 'Noddy' Fletcher: immediate past president
Ralph 'Noddy' Fletcher was initially reluctant to supply any information, stating that everyone knee him. For those of you who don't, or are a little forgetful Noddy was a radio operator at Casey in 1976 and Macquarie Island 1978. He has co-ordinated a number of recent MWD in Melbourne in his capacity of social secretary, and last year was the club president. He was even the Editor of Aurora for one edition before Mrs.Rob became editor.
John Gillies: editor of 'Aurora'
John was the Radio Technician at Mawson 1967 and Casey 1969. He later worked at the PMG/Telecom/Telstra research laboratories on TV Conference systems, Cable TV, and Optical fibres. He took early retirement in 2001. John has been actively involved in ANARE affairs being on National Council 1975-1980 and 1996 to 2010, and was President from 2000-2002. He was also the Editor of the ANARE Club History book in 2001, the 2001 ANARE Club voyage rep and recently redesigning the ANARE Club logo and badge. Perhaps most importantly, he has been the Editor of the Aurora (ANARE Club Journal) since 2003.
Ian Mackie: club historian
Ian was a carpenter and involved with Repstat at Casey -Wilkes in 1965/66 and was at Macquarie Island in 1972. He has been on the National Council in one form or another since 1974, and was the Club berth representative in 1988. Ian is a foundation member of the ANARE Ski Club at Baw Baw, and still skis each winter, making moves that many of the less agile ANARE Club members can only dream about. He has hosted many ANARE Club BBQs, bands and general get togethers at his bush property over the years.
Ian McLean: webmaster
Ian set up the Tas branch web page which serves as a primary point of contact with ANARE members especially at Midwinters. More recently he has been appointed webmaster for the National website. Ian has been south as a TelecommunicationsTechnical Officer numerous times including Macquarie Island 1992, Mawson 1995, 2001 and 2007, Casey 1997 and 2005, Davis 1999 and 2003 and summered at Heard Island 2001.
Mal Ellson: web team
Mal is a 'behind the scenes' type, and enjoys crunching code on the members site - PHP and MySQL database stuff. He lives on Kangaroo Island, so you don't see Mal around much... it's an expensive rock to commute from. Mal loves to see ANARE visitors though, if ever you go over there. Mal used to be a cook, having the five best years of his life down south: Davis 85, Macca 87, Casey 90, Mawson 92 and then Davis again in 95. He says he has got too old and slow to keep cooking, so instead learnt to code. A handy man!
Chris Gamgee: web team
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