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ONSW BOARD 

The 2024 ONSW Annual General Meeting was held last Monday night. The Board for 2024-25 is:  

* either of these positions can specialise as Coaching Director or Technical Director

Many thanks to the outgoing Board members - Sheralee Bailey (Vice President), Mark Schaefer (Finance Director), Gayle Quantock (Secretary), and Angus Shedden (Director).

Links to Annual Report in Eventor - here and on website here

BOARD VACANCIES - SECRETARY and DIRECTORS

In order to effectively and efficiently function ONSW needs to fill the three vacant positions and in particular the position of Board Secretary. Please consider if you or someone you know within ONSW may be suitable and interested in any of these roles. For all enquiries please contact President Robyn Pallas in person or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Vale Susan Healy  

Sue died on 1 March at her Aged Facility at Ashfield.  She was 93 and had suffered from cancer for the previous year. Fortunately, she did not have much, if any, pain and died peacefully.

Sue began orienteering in late 1974, introduced to the sport by her sister, Pella Rye.  Pella was visiting Sue in Wollongong from England (Pella had been orienteering for some years in England).  Sue formed Orienteers of Wollongong (the predecessor of Illawarra Orienteers) in early 1974 and organized several events for OW in 1975.

She then moved to Melbourne (late 1975) to work at the Victorian State Library (she became Victorian Head Librarian before her retirement in 1993).  Sue competed in most major Australian events from 1975 to 2020 as well as in New Zealand and Europe.  Sue was President of the VOA (Victorian Orienteering Association) in the early 80s and won the World Masters Sprint Championship (W85) in 2017 in NZL.  She moved to Sydney in 2018 and joined Uringa Orienteers.

Sue had a very active and varied life.  Born in England in 1930, she lived the first 25 years of her life near Wem except for boarding school and University (London University) where she obtained a BA in French, Spanish and Librarianship. She was the leader of a UNESCO team sent to reconstitute the library at Dunkirk in 1951 (she was the leader because she was the only team member who spoke fluent French - with a Marseille accent! due to working as an au pair there in 1949-50).

She lived in Kenya in 1955-57 (during the Mau Mau incursion!) and Sierra Leone in 1959.  She moved to Australia (Canberra initially before moving to Wollongong) in 1960.  In the mid 70s in Wollongong she stood for the Australian Parliament for the Australia Party and later the Australian Democrats.  Sue spoke French and Spanish fluently and Italian, Greek and Swahili competently!

She has 2 children (both born in Kenya) – son, Richard and daughter, Margaret.  

Dave Lotty

Dates - Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March (this weekend)    

Central Coast Orienteers invite you along to the O’Shea 2 day (aka Toukley 2 Day). 

Three great events over two days, in teams of two.   

Saturday afternoon is a bush relay.

Saturday night is a line event in the streets and parks. 

Sunday morning is a unique format bush score event.

This is a fun event which gives you some bush orienteering before the season starts. 

Click for Flyer here.

Entries are closed - Eventor 

Individual days still open and some EOD will be available on the weekend.