1st West Wollongong
Status: Still operating
Registered: 19/02/1947
Hall: Presbyterian School Hall, Rosemont St West Wollongong Now - Roy Johanson Park, Euroka St, West Wollongong (Opened 1965)
Scarf: Red base, ¼ in brown border, no gap, ¼ in gold stripe
History
South Coast Times said 6th Wollongong Pack/Troop became 1st West Wollongong with own Group Committee. Group/Pack/Troop registered 19/2/1947 and met at Presbyterian School Hall, Rosemont St West Wollongong, early leaders included SM S Smith / CM Mrs R Smith. In 1950 had 39 Cubs/ 12 Scouts and 2 Cub Packs. Senior Troop registered 29/4/1971 / SM A Thurling becoming SSL.
Venturer unit deregistered October 1994.
Had 21 Cubs/12 Scouts/5 Leaders in 1947, 23 Cubs/15 Scouts/5 Leaders in 1948, 33 Cubs/12 Scouts/5 Leaders in 1949, 39 Cubs/12 Scouts/8 Leaders in 1950, 31 Cubs/20 Scouts/8 Leaders in 1951, 28 Cubs/16 Scouts/3 Leaders in 1952, 39 Cubs/16 Scouts/6 Leaders in 1953, 16 Cubs/1 Leader in 1954, 14 Cubs/1 Leader in 1955, 18 Cubs/1 Leader in 1958, 22 members in 1961, 43 in 1962, 47 in 1963, 44 in 1964, 51 in 1965, 62 in 1966, 57 in 1967, 39 in 1968, 54 in 1969, 51 in 1970, 43 in 1971, 44 in 1972, 41 in 1973, 18C/ 18 Scouts/6 Leaders in 1987, 48 Youth/7 Leaders in 1989, 38 Youth/8 Leaders in 1990, 28 Cubs/18 Scouts/4 Venturers/6 Leaders in 1991, 23 Cubs/ 24 Scouts/6 Leaders in 1992. “B” Pack started in 1950. Troop did not reregister in 1954. 1956 & 57 South Coast Annual reports lists 1st West Wollongong and 1st Mangerton combined as having 33 Cubs/31 Scouts/5 Seniors/9 Leaders in 1956, 33 Cubs/21 Scouts/13 Seniors and 5 Leaders in 1957.
Must have closed/ reopened as Group registered 29/9/1960 with D Miller as SM, W McKenzie GSM. 1953 SC & T Annual report said plans for hall ready. 1962 & 63 SC& T Annual reports said had obtained land under licence adjoining park and building under construction. 1964 SC Ann report said hall completed /occupied and nearly ready for official opening on land leased from Council, building was school purchased, dismantled, moved and re-erected. Official opening in 1965 Scout year.
Previous leaders
? – ? · Diane Fields · Assistant Cub Leader
? – ? · Geoffrey Fields · Assistant Cub Leader
? – ? · Jean M. Ziegelaar · Assistant Cub Master
? – ? · John E. Hurley · Assistant Scout Leader
? – ? · Valerie G. Pritchard · Assistant Cub Leader
? – 1953 · P. J. Binns · Scout Master
? – 1980 · Thomas Pritchard · Group Leader
? – 1990 · Ken Kiley · Assistant Scout Leader
? – 2004 · Ruth Kilah · Assistant Cub Leader
1947 – ? · Selwyn Smith · Scout Master
1947 – 1949 · Ruth Smith · Cub Master
1948 – 1949 · Stanley Booth · Assistant Scout Master
1948 – 1951 · Gordon Hodges · Assistant Scout Master
1949 – ? · B. Graham · Assistant Cub Leader
1949 – ? · B. J. Graham · Assistant Cub Leader
1949 – 1950 · A. G. Davidson · Assistant Cub Leader
1949 – 1950 · A. Waters · Assistant Cub Leader
1949 – 1951 · Ethel Lee · Cub Master
1950 – 1951 · Cynthia Volheim · Assistant Cub Leader
1950 – 1952 · A. G. Davidson · Cub Master
1950 – 1952 · John Bartley · Assistant Scout Master
1950 – 1953 · A. Waters · Cub Master
1951 – 1952 · W. J. Robinson · Scout Master
1951 – 1953 · B. J. Graham · Cub Master
1952 – ? · A. G. Davidson · Assistant Scout Master
1953 – 1954 · Margaret Spillman · Cub Master
1954 – ? · Margaret Spillman · Assistant Cub Leader
1956 – ? · G. C. Hill · Assistant Cub Leader
1956 – 1957 · Ruth H. Martin · Cub Master
1960 – ? · W. Mckenzie · Group Scout Master
1960 – 1962 · D. Millar · Scout Master
1961 – ? · C. Hamilton · Assistant Scout Master
1961 – 1963 · R. Hall · Assistant Cub Leader
1962 – 1962 · D. Millar · Group Scout Master
1962 – 1963 · C. Hamilton · Scout Master
1963 – 1963 · Arnold R. Thurling · Assistant Scout Master
1963 – 1971 · Arnold R. Thurling · Scout Master
1964 – 1964 · T. Raymond · Assistant Cub Master
1964 – 1965 · Barry E. McMurtrie · Assistant Cub Master
1964 – 1971 · Peter R. Bannister · Assistant Scout Leader
1965 – 1967 · Michael Woollard · Assistant Scout Master
1965 – 1969 · Derek Thompson · Senior Scout Leader
1966 – 1969 · Kathleen Thompson · Assistant Cub Master
1967 – ? · Boukje J. (Beryl) Simpson · Cub Master
1967 – 1967 · Boukje J. (Beryl) Simpson · Assistant Cub Master
1967 – 1967 · Kenneth W. Fitzgerald · Assistant Cub Master
1967 – 1968 · Jillian A. Kennedy · Assistant Cub Master
1968 – 1975 · Clark J. Scobie · Group Scout Master
1969 – 1969 · Barbara Ohem · Assistant Cub Master
1969 – 1971 · Robert C. Calder · Assistant Scout Master
1971 – ? · Arnold R. Thurling · Senior Scout Leader
1971 – ? · Robyn A. Simpson · Cub Instructor
1971 – 1973 · Beryl Hamilton · Assistant Cub Master
1971 – 1973 · Robert C. Calder · Assistant Senior Scout Leader
1972 – ? · Peter C. Simpson · Cub Instructor
1972 – 1972 · Maxwell Judd · Assistant Scout Leader
1972 – 1975 · Peter Dennelley · Scout Master
1973 – ? · Robyn A. Simpson · Assistant Cub Leader
1973 – 1975 · Maxwell Judd · Scout Leader
1973 – 1976 · Ian N. Coady · Assistant Cub Leader
1974 – ? · Junette B. Duncan · Assistant Cub Leader
1975 – ? · Clark J. Scobie · Assistant Cub Leader
1975 – ? · Thomas Prichard · Assistant Scout Leader
1975 – ? · Thomas Pritchard · Assistant Scout Leader
1975 – 1978 · Maxwell Judd · Group Leader
1975 – 1979 · John Duncan · Cub Leader
1976 – 1977 · Brian C. Harvey · Assistant Cub Leader
1976 – 1978 · Herbert W. Broadhead · Assistant Scout Leader
1976 – 1984 · Ross D. Heaton · Assistant Cub Leader
1977 – 1982 · Phillip B. Tweedale · Assistant Scout Leader
1977 – 1986 · Lester T. Hamilton · Assistant Scout Leader
1978 – ? · Herbert W. Broadhead · Group Leader
1979 – ? · Trevor G. Ayre · Assistant Cub Leader
1979 – 1983 · Ian W. Denney · Assistant Scout Leader
1979 – 1990 · Rex A. Jacobs · Assistant Cub Leader
1980 – 1984 · Lewis Pogson · Group Leader
1981 – 2008 · Laurence E. Maher · Cub Leader
1982 – 1982 · Susan E. Fisher · Cub Leader
1982 – 1984 · Ian J. Kirby · Assistant Cub Leader
1982 – 1989 · Susan E. Fisher · Assistant Cub Leader
1983 – 1983 · Michael J. Walker · Assistant Scout Leader
1983 – 1983 · Michael J. Walker · Scout Leader
1983 – 1986 · Peter B. Laughton · Assistant Scout Leader
1984 – ? · Edmund Fisher · Scout Leader
1984 – ? · Ian J. Kirby · Group Leader
1985 – ? · Ian W. Denney · Assistant Scout Leader
1985 – ? · Janelle Williams
1987 – ? · Kenneth Riley · Assistant Cub Leader
1987 – 1989 · Kenneth Switzer · Assistant Scout Leader
1987 – 1993 · Geoffrey Goeldner · Assistant Cub Leader
1989 – ? · Mark Waterman · Provisional Leader (Cubs)
1989 – 1993 · Michael Cannon · Assistant Cub Leader
1989 – 1997 · Robert G. Bell · Group Leader
1990 – ? · Ruth Kilah · Provisional Leader (Cubs)
1990 – 1993 · John Hayward · Provisional Leader (Scouts)
1993 – 1996 · John Hayward · Scout Leader
1993 – 1997 · Lesley Bellach · Assistant Cub Leader
1995 – 1997 · Jennifer Clancy · Assistant Scout Leader
1997 – 2000 · Matthew Simpson · Assistant Scout Leader
1997 – 2002 · Craig Buckley · Assistant Cub Leader
1998 – 2003 · Louise Maisey · Group Leader
1999 – 2001 · Norman Rees · Assistant Scout Leader
2000 – 2004 · Susan Meharg · Assistant Cub Leader
2002 – 2004 · Craig Sheppard · Assistant Cub Leader
2002 – 2008 · Craig Buckley · Scout Leader
2005 – ? · John Barham · Assistant Scout Leader
2005 – 2008 · Barry Neill · Group Leader
2007 – 2008 · Wendy Jenkins · Assistant Cub Leader
2008 – ? · Deidre Macdonald · Associate Leader
2008 – 2010 · Wendy Jenkins · Cub Leader
2009 – ? · John T. Latham · Trainee Leader (Scout)
2009 – ? · Nerida Smith · Associate Leader
2009 – ? · Vesna Andric · Associate Leader
2009 – 2010 · Richard Luck · Associate Leader
2010 – ? · John T. Latham · Scout Leader
2010 – ? · Karen Thomas · Assistant Scout Leader
2010 – ? · Mervyn Thomas · Assistant Scout Leader
2010 – ? · Roza Dimeska · Assistant Scout Leader
2022 – ? · Adam Kelly · Group Leader
2025 – ? · Ian Keizer · Trainee Youth Program Leader
pre 2018 – ? · Simon O'Connor · Cub Leader
Awards
Cub Scout Grey Wolf Award
2009 · Ana Dimeska
2011 · Niamh Bull
2012 · Brooke Poljasevic
2014 · Samuel Daykin, Emily Kendall, Emerson Marr, Bryce O'Connor
2015 · Faith Clark, Kaylen Craft, Jaryn O'Connor, Karla Poljasevic, Elise Scobie
2016 · Adam Kendall, Jessica Newman
2017 · Joshua Newman
2018 · Amelia Wood
2019 · Jonathan Crowe, James Rouen
2021 · Johanna Hernandez
2023 · Jackson Kelly, Max Polhill, Breanna Weaving, Lucy Wood
2025 · Cameron Kelly, Isaac Polhill
Australian Scout Award
2012 · Matthew Latham
2013 · Ana Dimeska
2016 · Isaac Clark
2017 · Georgia Dellow, Brooke Poljasevic, Maria Villaca Coelho de Sa
2018 · Emily Kendall, Bryce O'Connor
2019 · Faith Clark, Jaryn O'Connor
2020 · Daniel Rouen
2021 · Charlotte Wood
2022 · Joshua Bond, Alexa Stutchbury, Amelia Wood
2023 · James Rouen, Ainslie Thompson
2024 · Sophie Weaving
Silver Emu
2021 · John Latham
Silver Koala
2017 · John Latham
Meritorious Service Award
2020 · Simon O’Connor
Special Service Award
2017 · Carol Kendall, Sharlene Poljasevic, Simon O’Connor
2018 · Levs de Sa
2021 · Emily Rouen
2023 · Hilary Thompson
Medal of Merit
1955 · Ruth Martin
1995 · Laurence Maher
Certificate of Merit
1997 · Ruth Kilah
2014 · Roza Dimeska, Nerida Smith
2nd WEST WOLLONGONG
Group registered: 20/04/1950
Group Closed: 1951
Hall Address: Mangerton Hall
Scarf
Pack registered 20 April 1950 and met at Mangerton Hall/ original CM Miss A Waters and ACM A
Davidson, had 16 Cubs when registered. Closed by 1951 census. Anita Waters CM and M
Henderson ACM transferred to 1st Mt Kembla and M Moroney ACM to 1st Mt St Thomas in 1953
Previous leaders
? – ? · Richard T. Lihou · Assistant Scout Leader
? – ? · M. Moroney · Assistant Cub Master
1950 - ? · Anita Waters · Cub Master
1950 - ? · A. Davidson · Assistant Cub Master
1950 – 1951 · P. D. Vollheim · Assistant Cub Leader
1951 - ? · R. Pemberton · Assistant Cub Master
1952 – 1953 · M. M. Henderson · Assistant Cub Leader
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