LIFE MEMBERS

Life Membership was first awarded in 1961 and is the highest honor bestowed by the , recognising extraordinary service to the Club over an extended period.

The Hon. Anthony Albanese (2013) Mr Shane Lawrence Rigon (2011) Mr Ivan Jones (2002, 2015) Mr Michael Andrews (1996) Mr Ian Roberts (2009) Mr John Jones (1998, 1998) Mr Roy Asotasi (2014) Mr Eric Michael Robinson (2003) Mr Harold Kadwell (1991, 1999) Mr Darrell Bampton, OAM (1994) Mr Bradford Varley Ryder (2013) Mr Clement Kennedy (1978, 2010) Ms Michelle Booth (2018) Mr Paul Joseph Sait (1991) Mr Don Lane (1973, 2009) Mr David Boyle (1997) Mr (1972) Mr Kevin Lang (1989, 2017) Mr Arthur Branighan (2012) Mr Eric Simms (1974) Mr John Lawrence (1967, 1973) Mr Raymond Branighan (1991) Mr Gary Stevens (1987) Mr Victor Lawrence (1996, 2008) The Hon. Laurence Brereton (2014) Mr Wayne Stevens (1993) Mr Ronald Lisle (1992, 2003) Mr Stanley Browne (2019) Mr Kenneth Stewart (1994) Mr Albert Lupton (1985, 1993) Mr Neville Cameron (1992) Mr Kerry Stokes, AC (2004) Mr Charles Lynch (1967, 1968) Mrs Joyce Churchill (2007) Mr Luke Stuart (2012) Mr James Mason (1965, 2005) Mr Jason Clark (2019) Mr Peter Tunks (2011) Mr Thomas McDowell (1995, 1998) The Hon. , AO (1980) Mr Elwyn Walters (2004) Mr John McGrath (1963, 1966) Mr Thomas Cocking (1982) Mr Michael Whitney (2009) Ms Eileen McLoughlin (2002, 2013) Mr Craig Coleman (1995) Mr Jeffrey Withers (2003) Mr Robert Moses (2009, 2018) Mr Ronald Coote, AM (1990) DECEASED Mr Norman Nilson (1962, 2017) Dr Terry Coulits (2015) (Year Awarded, Year Deceased) Mr Alfred O’Connor (1963, 1970) Mr (2004) Mr Patrick O’Grady (1998, 2005) Mr Sidney Anderson (1962, 1987) Mr Lesley Davidson (2007) Mr John O’Neill (1984, 1999) Mr Harold Baker (1963, 1965) Mr Andrew Denton (2010) Mr Richard Powell (2004, 2019) Mr Samuel Ball (1961, 1969) Mr John ‘Mick’ Falla (1991) Mr Bernard Purcell (1961, 2001) Mr Leslie Bell (1962, 2003) Mr Mario Fenech (1997) Mr Rupert John Rayner (1968, 2008) Mr Cyril Blinkhorn (1961, 1977) Mr Raymond Furse (2019) Mr John B. Riordan (1977, 2019) Mr Eric Bonner (1983, 2008) Mr Carmen Gallico (2014) Mr Cecil Saunders (1967, 1981) Mr Thomas Brock (1993, 1997) Mr Sean Garlick (2011) Mr Clifford Smailles (1994, 2005) Mr Thomas Brogan (1968, 1961) Mr Scott Geddes (2013) Mr George Smith (1994, 2005) Mr Kenneth Brogan (1961, 2006) Mr David R. Spring (1963, 1968) Dr Nathan Gibbs (1995) Mr Robert Byrne (2010, 2010) Mr Victor Tait (1961, 1972) Mr Robert Grant (1993) Mr , AM (1961, 1985) Mr Ralph Thistlethwaite (1995, 2004) The Hon. Nicholas Greiner, AC (2010) Mr Daniel Clement (2004, 2008) Mr Jack Thom (1972, 1993) The Hon. Deirdre Grusovin AM (2014) Mr Albert Clift (1981, 2005) Mr Albert Treweek (1987, 1991) Mr Gary Hambly (2009) Mr John Coleman (2003, 2003) Mr Walter Watsford (1985, 2017) Mr Ross Harrington (2010) Mr Peter Collins (1965, 1980) Mr David Watson (1963, 1982) Mr James Hatfield (2017) Mr. Leslie Cowie, OAM (1961, 1997) Mr Benjamin Wearing (1961, 1968) Mr Gregory Hawick (1990) Mr Jack E. Coyne (1984, 2009) Mr George William Wells (1963, 1968) Mr Anthony Henderson (1993) Mr Jack J. Coyne (1961, 1986) Mr Frederick West (1993, 2005) Mr Robert Honan (2009) Mr Harold Cunningham (1961, 1964) Mr Percival Williams (1990, 1996) Mr Brian Knight James (2002) Mr Leonard Devine (1986, 2008) Mr Roy Willmette (1990, 2016) Mr Dennis Henry Lee (1994) Mr Denis Donoghue (1961, 1993) Mr Arthur Wood (1963, 1964) Mr Raymond George Martin, AM (2016) Mr Norman Donovan (1996, 2003) Mr Robert John McCarthy, MBE (1972) Mr John Duggan (1991, 1994) The following people were awarded the Mr Keith William Arthur McCraw (2012) Mr Economos Economos (1982, 2011) Perpetual Membership in 1994: Mr Steve Edward McDermott (2017) Mr William Fletcher (1966, 1969) Mr Alan Jones, AO (1994) Mr Robert Howard McMillan (2003) Mr Reginald Fridd (1993, 1996) Mr Kerry Packer, AC (1994, 2005) Mr Paul Stephen Mellor (2011) Mr Edward Fry (1962, 1968) The following former Souths players were Mr Nathan Deane Merritt (2015) Mr Charles Gibson (1969, 2010) Knighted (includes only ones not listed as Mr Henry Frederick Morris, OAM (1997) Mr Walter Hackett (1967, 1974) Life Members): Mr Brian Murray (1983) Mr AG ‘Gus’ Hahn (1978, 1980) Mr Mervyn Neave (2019) Mr George Hallett (1961, 1970) Dr Mervyn Cross, OAM (1995) Mr Darryl Roy Neville (2016) Mr Ernest Hammerton, OAM (1962, 1991) Mr Colin Purcell, OAM (2005, 2011) Mr Zbignew ‘Ziggy’ Niszczot (2003) Mr George Hansen (1961, 1973) Mr Bernard O’Neil (2019) Mr Alan Heiler (1996, 2017) Mr Terence William Parker (1986) Mr Patrick Hills, AO (1989, 1992) Mr Russell Edwin Pratt (1988) Mr Harold Horder (1967, 1979) Mr Anthony Rampling (2010) Mr John Horne (1961, 1987)