The greens will be hosting their presidents lunch on Friday the 26th of August 2011 from 12:30pm at the Burword Inn with guest speeker Peter Fenton. Peter's CV includes a large number of achievemnts such as:
Chief sound mixer 150 Australian feature films.
Credits includes Newsfront, Caddie, Sunday Too Far Away, Picnic At Hanging Rock, My Brilliant Career, The Devil’s Playground, Gallipoli, Phar Lap, The Russia House, Six Degrees Of Separation and Paradise Road.
Wrote/ co-produced two documentary films on Wallaby tours. The Running Game featured the long tour of British Isles and Ireland in 1981. The African Campaign featured the four match tour of South Africa in 1992.
Wrote and presented one hour documentary on boxer Les Darcy for ABC, 1998
Has written 7 books on Australian sport.
The Legend Of The fighting Man, a biography on Australia’s most famous boxer Les Darcy who died in Memphis Tennessee aged 21 in 1917.
For The sake Of The Game tells the story of the 1927/28 Waratahs rugby tour of the British Isles, Ireland and France which virtually saved the game in Australia.
Riding On Courage (2000) is a biography on Jockey Wayne Harris, a Melbourne Cup and Golden slipper Stakes winner despite enormous health problems.
They Called Him Boy is the biography of Andrew “Boy” Charlton who became Australia’s first Olympic 1500 metres champion as a 16 year old in Paris in 1924.
Olive is the biography of a teenage, North Queensland WW2 Nurse.
Also three books of sporting poetry.
Rugby Coaching career. 20 years first grade and representative rugby
Parramatta 1st XV, 1977-81. Coached them to initial 1st grade premiership 1977.
Sydney Representative Team 1982-85. Teams included the Ella Brothers, Michael Hawker, Simon Poidevin and Nick Farr Jones.
Eastwood 1st XV/ club coach 1986-1991
Penrith 1st XV 1997/club coach 1997-2001
Awarded Australian Sports Medal 2000 for service to Rugby.
