Long Serving Members Honoured

Wednesday, 07 Sep 2016

ACS Canberra is proud to acknowledge its long standing members and a total of 29 members going back as far as the founding of the Canberra Computer Society 51 years ago, have all been Honoured.

At the recent gala dinner, the ACS was able to hand out five framed certificates of Honorary Membership to attendees at the dinner.

This is an initiative of the ACS Canberra Chair Dr Tim Turner who said, “we should be proud as a Branch to be one of the five founding Societies having been set up by world renown Dr Trevor Pearcey who became our first Chairman”.

"The Honorary Memberships are recognition of contribution to our sector and longevity of support as financial members of ACS Canberra, these members have been key figures in the growth of ICT in Canberra and Australia over five decades”."

Members honoured at the dinner included Mr Mike Bowern, Mr Brand Hoff, Mr Peter Outteridge, Mr Michael Heap and Mr John Urbani.

On hand to acknowledge these heros of ICT was the Chief Minister Mr Andrew Barr MLA and Dr Tim Turner Chair of ACS Canberra Branch.

A list of long standing members been awarded honorary membership as 23 August 2016 are:

First Name	Last Name	Year Joined	Years of Membership	First Name	Last Name	Year Joined	Years of Membership
Michael	Bowern	1965	51	John	Davies	1970	46
Barry	Smith	1965	51	John	Coghlan	1971	45
Bernard	Crowe	1966	50	Ross	Shorney	1971	45
Robert	Thompson	1966	50	Henning	Hansen	1971	45
Godfrey	Lance	1966	50	Peter	Outteridge	1972	44
John	O'Callaghan	1966	50	Glenton	Nicolson	1973	43
Huw	Owen-Jones	1967	49	Dominic	Circosta	1973	43
Berend	Hoff	1968	48	David	Wolstencroft	1973	43
Michael	Heap	1968	48	Penelope	Collings	1973	43
John	Austin	1968	48	Roger	Clarke	1974	42
John	Smith	1969	47	Michael	Kennedy	1975	41
Michael	Duffy	1969	47	Michael	Adena	1975	41
Jennifer	Cooper	1970	46	Hendrik	Thijssens	1976	40
Helen	Austin	1970	46	Antonio	Danaro	1976	40
Mick	Roche	1970	46	John	urbani	1977	39