St George Leagues Club

7th January 2010
A Photoshop Workshop Tutorial
A night where you can learn more about your camera and how to improve your photography.

11th February
“Head On” Exhibition – Moshe Rosenzveig
Moshe Rosenzveig is a photojournalist, commercial photographer, educator and an award winning television producer/director, whose career in the visual arts and the media spans over 30 years.
He runs 4D photography in Bondi and who specialises in studio and location photography using high-end digital equipment or film.

11th March
Nature Presentation

8th April
“Photojournalism” – Allan Coker
Allan is a member of the Photographic Society and very experienced photographer. Allan will be giving us his approach to Photojournalism.

15th April
Audiovisual Presentation – Steve Mullarkey
Steve is a very experienced Audio Visual presenter and will be showing some of his excellent shows.

22nd April
Forensic Photography Presentation

13th May
Epson Trade Presentation
Always a very informative night where we get the latest information on Epson printers and how to get the most out of printing our images.

10th June
“Language of Photography” – Professor Des Crawley
An introduction to Portfolio Workshops

24-25th July
Digital Interclub – Darran Leal Seminar
Photography has been a passion for Darren since becoming a professional photographer in 1980

19th August
“Wedding Photography” – David Oliver
Australia’s No.1 Wedding Photographer and Grant Master of Photography. David will shows us his variety of his photography.

9th September
Macro and Tabletop Photography Workshop
This night is a hands on where you will learn how to take macro photo’s and how to photography small items in a studio setup.

23rd September
Momento and Photo Books Competition

7th October
Portfolio Presentation

21st October
Club Championship – Prints

28th October
Club Championship – Digital

6th November
ST GEORGE LEAGUES CLUB PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 47th ANNUAL AWARDS NIGHT
You are invited to attend an exhibition of photography featuring the winning entries from the last 12 months competition.
Open: 7:00 pm
Presentation: 7:30 pm

11th November
Brent Pearson Presentation

Please contact the Secretary for further details: secretary@stgphoto.org.au

I am pleased to announce that our St George Leagues Club Under 12s Cricket Team are Premiers in their division in season 2008/09  after winning their grand final against  Kingsgrove Cricket Club on the weekend of 21st & 22nd March.

This side went through the season undefeated.

Congratulations team and to their coach Dale on a great season.

Our under 14s side have qualified for their Grand Final which is to be played at Riverwood Park on Saturday & Sunday 28th & 29th. March starting at 8.30am both days.

We wish them well.

Denis King

Secretary

The years are moving very fast and we are now well into another new year. I hope you all had a happy and peaceful Christmas and a great time welcoming in the New Year.

Since my last report for the journal, there have been a few changes. Unfortunately, there are now no more lessons before our Monday night social dance. There were a few times that we have had to meet at Rockdale Town Hall, due to the availability of halls. Unless otherwise announced, dance will continue to be held at the Marana Auditorium in MacMahon Street, Hurstville.

Our thanks to Albert and Nancy who put in a lot of work to compile the dance program with beautiful music. New sequence dances such as D’Amour Rumba and the Grove Waltz, not yet on the regular weekly programs, are practiced during the short breaks.

Our Christmas dance on the 22nd December, 2008 was successful with over 100 dancers attending. The happy spirit was evident. The hall and many tables were colorfully decorated for the festive season. Santa Claus and his wife paid us a visit with a helper making a special show. Along with the usual raffles and Monte Carlo, a special raffle for the many assorted Christmas goodies was available to be won. Everyone left content, with something from Santa’s bag.

Generously sponsored by the St.George Leagues Club, dance starts at 7pm until 11pm on Monday nights. Coffee, tea and biscuits are provided plus a raffle with a chance to win one or all of five of the $15 prizes. There is also a chance for a couple to win the jackpot in the Monte Carlo dance.

Members and their guests are always welcome!

Happy dancing!
Rhonda Lee

The club had 6 teams entered in the 2008 Spring Pennant Competition. They were graded in Divisions 2, 5, 7, 8, 11 and 12.

Sid Mir’s Division 2 team,  promoted after winning the premiership in Division 3 the previous season, found the going a little tougher this comp, but still managed to come a credible fourth.

Our Division 5 team of Frank Bartolotti, Robert Edwards, Rod Dale, Peter Lupevski, Joe Dundovic and Andrew Clarke (Capt) managed to come second overall. However, went down to President in the preliminary final.

Division 7 came fourth. This was a reasonable result considering the team had a number of injuries during the season.

Our Division 8 team of Mickey Bek, Brian Pisani, Paul Wright (Capt.), Rohit Autar and Gerald Walz came second overall in the comp. They managed to beat Bulldogs in the preliminary final, however went down to the minor premiers and form team of the comp Heroes Hill in the grand final.

Division 11 consisting of John Richardson, Tan Bui, Adrian Chen, Paul Riddell, Jason Kwok (Capt.), Kevin Fung and George Guan came second in their comp. They managed to win their preliminary final very convincingly against Bulldogs, but went down (18-10 and 2 rubbers each) to the very experienced Bankstown RSL in the grand final.

Division 12 found the going a little tough at times but still managed to come fourth.

Although we didn’t manage to take out any premierships this comp. The teams as a whole performed reasonably well, considering some of the teams were promoted to a higher grade after performing well last season.

The monthly handicapped round robin this year was a hard fought affair  throughout all the year. Going into the final month the leaders board was as follows: Chewy Lim 24 points, Doug MacFarlane 23.5 points, Joe Dundovic 21 points with both Peter Lupevski and John Richardson on 17.5 points. Our eventual winner Joe Dundovic played really well in the November finals to defeat Doug MacFarlane and take maximum points. The final standings were Joe Dundovic first and round robin champion 26 points, Doug MacFarlane 25.5 points second, Chewy Lim 25 points third from Peter Lupevski and John Richardson equal fourth with 19.5 points each. A very close finish between the top three players.

In conclusion the squash club would like to greatly thank our two major sponsors St. George Leagues Club and the Day-Night Chemist Ramsgate for helping to make this year another successful and enjoyable one for our club. Their contributions are much appreciated by all the squash club members. On closing, anyone interested in joining the squash club with the view to playing comp. squash can contact me (Brian Pisani) on 0415 641 581. So till next time.
Good squashing everybody!

Sequence dancing continues to be an enjoyable and great form of exercise for the body, heart and soul.  Anyone and everyone including those with two left feet can learn.

No more ‘old time’ as many new sequences learnt all consist of ballroom dance steps.  Appreciation must be given to Albert & Nancy who combine beautiful dances, lessons and great music for us all to enjoy. The latest taught were the Mambo Manyana, Soho Swing, Christina Cha Cha, Libra quickstep, Jealousy Tango, Rumba Passat, Williams Waltz, the Kestral Quickstep and Emperrado Tango.

To celebrate Xmas in July, the Hurstville Auditorium was beautifully decorated by our committee members and sandwiches were provided to the many dancers who attended on July 7th.  The Saturday following, 40 friendly dancers, including committee members, enjoyed the celebration with a night out feasting on a buffet meal

Fathers’ Day was celebrated on the Friday, 5th September instead of Monday 8th as the hall had been double-booked. Two happy fathers collected their prizes of $15 each, whilst the assorted sandwiches, brought in from St. George Leagues Club, were thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended.

We are so happy that many dancers have signed up as members of St George Leagues Club.  Each night before our social dance begins, the National Anthem is sung and whenever the Leagues team has a win, we all joyfully sing ‘Saints come marching in’.

We also congratulate our young, new grandparents John and Amy Wan and David and Fiona Luu and wish our life-member Percy Higgins a speedy recovery.

Occasionally Rockdale Town Hall is used for our dance nights when the Hurstville Auditorium is not available, so please keep in touch for any changes.

Our next big celebration to look forward to is Christmas.

Committee member, Fae Wilson appeared on TV for an advertisement for the Olympics, so we can now say we dance with a star!

Happy dancing!
Rhonda Lee