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Jen Woods Life Membership

Award.

At the Warwick Ulysses National Rally, Jen Woods #21395,
was presented with her Life Membership number #20. It
was appropriate that retiring NatCom President, Henry Roxx
#28636 be the person to present Jen with her award seeing
as it was he who took over the role from her.

You could be forgiven in thinking that Jen has been on the
NatCom doing one task or another for the last 20 years, but
no, she has only been doing that for a bit over a decade and
she has done a splendid job at whatever she has been asked
to do.
The Club also had to negotiate the problems of Covid and this
held up the usual process of NatCom succession for 2 years
and the need for the then Committee to continue working in
their various roles until an alternative AGM could be achieved.

Jen helped steer our Club through some very testing times
and she has always shown the ‘grit and determination’
required to keep the Club on an even course.
Did she know she was getting the Award? Hard to believe
she didn’t have a clue, as she has always been so incisive.
However, it was notable that she was caught out unable to
come up with a speech.
Well done Jen Woods and well deserved.

George Finlay Dearnley award

George Ian Findley #21312 from The Hills Branch, was
awarded Dearnley Medal 77 at the Warwick Ulysses National
Rally.
He was given the Award for exceptional and meritorious
standards of service to the Ulysses Club and his efforts for the
past 23 years have been well above and beyond the normal
expectations of any member.

George was awarded the Telemachus Medal in 2016 for his
exceptional services to The Hills Branch. It’s said that George
is one of Ulysses’ most avid advocates.

Taken from George’s D.M. submission by The Hills Branch
Committee, John Uidam #37212 President.

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