SU Victoria

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Heather Garrett- The young lady on the right in the lifebuoy on this 1954 Country to City camp brochure was then Heather Probert, later Dr Heather Probert, anaesthetist, and now Mrs Heather Garrett. Click on the photo to read more.

Betty Simms – A conversation with Betty Sims is never dull. Our oldest official‘SU Visionary’, Betty is a real wag. She’s not one of those famous characters we’ve seen in the pages of SU News over the years. She is one of those faithful supporters who follow everything with keen interest, prayers and giving. Click on the photo to read more.

These days Ray Averill is possibly the most widely known person in SU to hosts of older supporters. In January 1952 while a young employee at Greyhound Tourist Bureau, he ‘gate-crashed’ the CSSM at Portarlington, and made an immediate impression. Click on the photo to read more.

In 1968 John Lane, then Children’s Missioner for SU Victoria, approached John Messer and said – ‘we don’t want to close the Apollo Bay mission.  Would you lead it?’  John agreed, and so began nineteen years on the Apollo Bay team – the first seventeen as the leader of the team, and two more as musician. Click on the photo to read more.