President Changeover 2026
On Sunday 28th June 2026, club members & friends joined together for our annual Presidential Changeover.
Many members and friends met for lunch at the Ballarat Golf Club for Clare Bennett to hand the reigns over to Danny Driscoll.
Kay Macaulay was the master of ceremonies, first handing to Karen Riddel for an Acknowledgement of Country followed by Jennifer Doolan who reminded us of everything Rotary International stands for.
Kay Macaulay
Karen Riddel
Jennifer Doolan
Outgoing President Clare was invited to speak and made a surprise award of a Paul Harris Fellow to incoming President Danny, who was very pleased to be awarded !! Clare gave a good summary and thanked everyone for a great year. A special thanks was given to outgoing Board Directors Huy Nguyen & Chez Noad for all their time.
President Clare
Danny very proud to receive a PHF
President Clare thanks Huy & Clare for all their time
Outgoing President Clare then carried out the process of handing the Presedential reigns to Incoming President Danny.
New President Danny said a big thanks to Clare for a great year, awarding Clare with flowers and a gift card. President Danny gave a short speech of what he hopes to achieve in his time as President and presented all the Committee Directors for the year with pins.
Danny's Board of Directors
Danny then said, enough serious stuff - let's have some fun. All tables had a ziplock bag, inside were pieces of straight spaghetti, string, sticky tape and a marshmellow. Tables were instructed to construct the highest creation possible ... which had to use the marshmellow. Congratulations to the table led by Andrew Harman, which won by 3cms.
Kay wrapped up the changeover and all members now look forward to another great Rotary year under Danny's leadership. Following are photos of all the members & friends who attended.
Bronwyn, Karen & Fiona
Desley & Huy
Jennifer, Jeanette & David
The J Ladies ... June, Judy & Jenny
Mark with friend
Steve, Danny & Kay
Trish, Jeremy & Deb
Vince, Andrew, Merle & Jill
Merle, Andrew, Sel & Jill