2005 Winner
Jan Gane
Jan Gane is a member of some seventeen local and international clubs and societies and has displayed at many of their meetings and contributed to their publications. She has always shown a willingness to be involved in club administration, particularly at the Stirling Philatelic Society and the WA Philatelic Council.
At Stirling, she joined the Committee in 1994 and was elected Vice-President from 1997 to 2000 and President from 2000 to 2003. She then became Librarian and revived the Stirling Newsletter which had been in abeyance for some years.
Jan joined the WA Philatelic Council as Stirling's delegate in 1996 and was a member of the Executive from 1998 to 2001 during which time she was also Public Relations Officer and interim Secretary. She was elected Vice-President in 1998 and then President in 2001 and served a three year term.
She has actively promoted stamp collecting and the activities of the Council by establishing the innovative Events for your Diary and setting up an electronic data base of Junior Collectors amongst other initiatives. Jan was Chairperson of SWANPEX from 1999 to 2002 and was responsible for introducing P-Stamp souvenirs as an effective fund-raiser. She served on the Organising Committee for the 2004 SWAN RIVER STAMP SHOW and has lately played an active part in establishing the `Home for Philately' at Wellington Fair.
Further a field, Jan represented Western Australia as the delegate to the Australian Philatelic Federation for several years in addition to holding other positions with that organisation.
As
well as this very public philatelic life, she has compiled major collections of
Jan
is showing no signs at all of slowing down and I have much pleasure in presenting the Hasluck Medal for 2005
