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535 Clifford GAMMON (1948- ) (Inducted 4.12.1989; left within a few months;
subsequently joined Rotary Club of Stourbridge and was its President 2013-
14.) Solicitor. From 1976 a Partner, later Senior Partner, in the practice of
William Wright & Son of St James’s Road, Dudley, specialising as a defence
solicitor in the criminal courts. He married the daughter of Malcolm Wright,
then Senior Partner of William Wright’s, in 1970 so he presumably joined
the practice soon after qualifying as a solicitor. He retired in 2008. He was
a trustee of Mary Stevens Hospice, Stourbridge, 2010-18, and is an avid
bridge player.

536 Martin JENNINGS (1941- ) (Inducted 4.12.1989; left in 1997/98.) Automobile electrical
engineering. Joint owner and director with his older brother Peter of Fred.
H Jennings & Sons Limited, automotive electrical engineers, of Cinder Bank,
Netherton. They succeeded their father Stanley Jennings (club member
#294). Martin qualified as a chartered accountant and maintains his
professional registration. He started work with Wall & Tanfield, chartered
accountants of Dudley and Birmingham, then moved to a local industrial
company, possibly GKN, as an accountant, before joining the family firm.
He served as Secretary of the Rotary Club of Dudley Housing Association
1993-1998, was a Director of Age Concern Dudley for 9 years from 2005,
and a trustee and Treasurer of Brierley Hill Samaritans. His home is in Pedmore, Stourbridge.

537 Paul Raymond COPSEY (1946- ) (Inducted 8.1.1990; left in 1991.) Finance,
Banking - Local. Manager of the Midland Bank branch, High Street, Dudley.
He was born and lived in Coventry until his late 20s when he moved to
Kidderminster where he still lives. After leaving the Rotary club he became
Practice Manager for the doctors’ surgery at Wolverley until retiring about
2016.

537A Major Kenneth (‘Ken’) Arthur HARRY (1930-2002) (Transferred as an existing Rotarian in early
1992; left in 1993 on his retirement.) Corps Commandant of Dudley Salvation Army. The Dudley
Corps was his last posting. He had been a member of the club for only a
few months when he suffered a serious stroke. Although much improved
he was retired 18 months early in Autumn 1993 and was sent first to
Swindon, where he had his left leg amputated below the knee because of
the effects of an infected toe and severe diabetes, and then to an adapted
bungalow at Waterlooville, Hampshire. Dudley Rotary club bought him a
motorised wheelchair, which transformed his life for his last few years.
For over 20 years up to his death he was a very active Rotarian.
Ken was a 4th generation Salvationist, born in Grangetown, the
docklands area of Cardiff, the eldest of 11 brothers and sisters. As a child he attended
Grangetown Corps (where he went to Sunday School with Shirley Bassey) but moved to Cardiff
Stuart Hall Corps where he became a keen bandsman and songster developing a lifelong passion
for all kinds of Salvation Army music. After learning his trade as a pattern-maker at Renold
Chains, which had a wheel manufacturing works in Cardiff, and completing his National Service
in REME he felt called to become a Salvation Army officer. He attended the International
Training College in Denmark Hill, London during 1955 and was then commissioned as lieutenant
at Eckington, Derbyshire. From there he moved to Chesterfield, followed by Newcastle City
Temple Corps, Liverpool Walton, and several years on the Isle of Man.