VETRUNNERY f ISSN 1449-8006 Vol. 41 Issue 1 — July 2019 Patron: Dick Telford Website: www.actmastersathletics.org.au Facebook: ACT Masters Athletics Club The monthly magazine of the ACT Masters Athletics Club Inc. Email:
[email protected] Our Jacoob Grooby takes half Marathon (see p.5) Stuart Reid Award to Jan Banens ACTVAC & ACTMA celebrates its 40th Reporter; Bryan Thomas “It was then moved R. Mee seconded M. Bone that an interim committee be appointed to run WORLD CHAMPION, PAST PRESIDENT AND LEADER the affairs of the club until such a time as an OF SUCCESSFUL 2013 NATIONALS HONOURED A.G.M is called. Carried. The interim Committee of the Club was se- Following the death of life member Stuart Reid in lected by nomination by those present to be: October 2012 the club established a special commemorative PETER FRYLINK, TERRY MONRO, KEN DANIELS, NIGEL award in recognition of Stuart’s many outstanding contribu- CREW” tions to our club and his accomplishments as a talented vet- Those words were recorded on a manual typewriter on eran distance runner over more than three decades. Thus the Stuart Reid Commemorative Award, presented “to a the night of 22 February 1979, setting the wheels in motion member who has made a major contribution to our club”, was to establish the ACT Veterans Amateur Athletics Club, con- born. temporarily known as the ACT Masters Athletics Club. The inaugural recipients were Bryan and Trish Thomas, The inaugural AGM on 2 May 1979, chaired by 1956 then Jim White in 2014, Rosemary and Robert Parker 2015, Olympic shot putter Peter Hanlin, was at the East Canber- Dave Mackenzie 2016, Val Chesterton in 2017 and last year ra Rugby Union Club in Kingston.