MY MATE GRAHAM

Isn't it cool that there are folk we went through WWTC with umpteen years ago that we now count as mates? As friends.

One such mate is Graham Brown. He now lives in the beautiful area of Rutherglen, Vic. with his lovely (and long-suffering) wife Margaret.

Graham's first appointment was Talmalmo near Corryong. He spent quite a bit of time teaching at Corowa.

He has strong ties with his church and other Christian organisations and is... you guessed it... a keen cyclist. Never ask him in front of Margaret how many bikes he actually owns.

When Fay and I were there earlier this year, we put our Avan up in his front yard and went visiting the Morris Winery with the Browns and some of the local Rotary people. It was a beaut night.

Graham's had prostate problems, and been through an op (I'm pretty sure) and 37 radiation sessions. (I can't imagine what that would be like.) He won't know how effective the radiation has been till he finishes his course of Zolodex next year.

Graham also does quite a bit of canoeing or should that be kayaking? He reckons it'd been getting harder to extract himself from the kayak until he remembered reading an article decades ago about how to get out of a kayak. He reckons it was lucky he read that article back then and could recall it.

Graham loves travel and visiting family (Sydney and Wollongong trips coming up shortly).

The Browns are planning a trip to England and the continent during Aug-Sept-Oct this year. Do you recognise him from the photo? (Yeah he's with my wife Fay on the left of photo. Margaret and I on the right.)

NOT BAD FOR OVER 60

Well, strike me dead! Here are a couple of tandem pairs having a great time. Don't they know they're all over 60?
Bernie Fitzpatrick and Janice (Kerin) as well as Fay (Bailey) and Grahame Keast had a ball. Rode 70+ each of the first two days and 50 on the third day. There were three other non-WWTC tandem teams.
Janice ferretted (is that a word?) out some relations when we were in Yeoval. Grahame found an ex Hurlstone bloke at breakfast who was 75 years old, also in Yeoval. All up we had a ball. We know we are most fortunate to be having so much fun and to still be able to cycle like this. Where there's a will....
Looks like it'll be on again next year... Le Tandem Tour de Dubbo!

See you at Marion's!

WHO'S THIS?

OK, do you recognise this person? Hopefully she won't check this blog or else she'll freak out! Fay and I caught up with her recently as we travelled round the countryside.
Click on comments below and tell us who you think it is. She went through WWTC in the sixties (who didn't?) I'll give clues if need be.
1st clue: I'm cuddling her mother at the back. I always got along well with her Mum. [That's too many clues.]

Dear Grahame

Welcome to the new CSU on-line Alumni Community. I hope you have found it interesting and useful.
As you are aware, we are still in the intital stages and to date, we have 265 registered alumni. it is hoped that by the end of the year this number will have grown into the thousands.
Featuring soon in the Alumni Spotlight section will be David Mackay, CEO of Kellogg and Adrian d'Hage, author of the best selling novel The Omega Scroll.

Next week sees three days of Graduation ceremonies on the Bathurst campus with over 1500 graduates receiving their degrees in six ceremonies.
A date for your diaries is Friday 14 September when the Annual Rugby Fundraiser is scheduled to be held in Sydney. Raffle tickets and appeal forms will be available shortly.
Remember to check the calendar regularly for all the lastest CSU events including Public Lectures; Seminars etc.
Get all your CSU News and the latest on Alumni happenings -
www.csu.edu.au/alumni
If you have any questions or feedback, please contact me. I love to hear from you and you can always stop in and see me at the Grange anytime you are passing through Bathurst.

Cheers and have a great weekend,
Michelle Fawkes, Alumni Relations Officer

Message from Keasty:
Look up the CSU Alumni site and enrol. It's painless! Simply click here and then click on KEEPING IN TOUCH. Cheers.