Page 6 - QARANC Vol 17 No 2 2019

4 The Gazette QARANC Association
News of Members
Rebecca Sloane Mather – Association PhD Scholar
Our congratulations go to Rebecca Sloane Mather who applied successfully to Cardiff University to undertake PhD studies on an aspect of military nursing history. She will be supported with her fees and other expenses by the Association, and will be keeping us informed of her progress. We also welcome her to the Heritage and Chattels sub-committee of the Board of Trustees.
Una Clemison – National
Chair RBL
We are very pleased to have learned that the new National Chairman of the Royal British Legion is an ex-QA, Major (Retd) Una Clemison. She is the first female chair of the RBL, and we extend our congratulations and best wishes for a successful term in office.
Morag Roberts
Morag Roberts, who is 75 years old, successfully completed her first London Marathon. Very well done to her. Possibly the majority of us would have hung up our running shoes long before reaching her venerable age. (especially those with new knees!)
Elizabeth Keenan
We welcome Mrs Liz Keenan to the Board of Trustees. Liz is proud to be an Army trained nurse and completed her training at the Royal Herbert Hospital in 1972. She left the Corps in 1975 to become a full time wife and mother, and in 1976 moved to BAOR. On return to the UK in 1981, she worked as a staff nurse at Leicester General Infirmary before commencing district nurse training in 1983. Moving back to her home town of Halesowen in 1976 she worked as a district nurse in Birmingham, eventually becoming a district nurse manager. In 2000 she became Registered Manager for a Leonard Cheshire Care Home, retiring in 2010.
Liz continued to serve as a nursing officer with the Corps in the Territorial Army, joining 304 General Hospital, and then transferred to the Ambulance
Train Group until she retired from military service in 2004.
In retirement Liz has taken on a number of charitable and voluntary roles. She brings valuable experience
to the Board of Trustees as a SSAFA caseworker and is a member of Worcester County Committee of the Royal British Legion. She is a school governor, works as the director of voluntary group at an old building used as a community centre – having been instrumental in saving it from being sold off by the local council. In addition Liz is the Poppy Appeal Organiser for Halesowen, which she has been doing for the past five years.
And as if that isn’t enough, Liz continues to help and support her grandchildren, takes her dogs out for walks, and then settles down to read her Kindle. The Association is fortunate to have her as a trustee, and Liz seems to be the best example of that old saying ‘ask a busy person...’!