PRESIDENTS OF NSW OTA
Sr Mary Gabriel
(Pat Solomon)
1957 - 1959
OUR FIRST PRESIDENT
Enid Maskey
1959 - 1960
Lesley Cooke
1962 - 1963
Freda Hundt
1965 - 1966
Beryl Phillips
1961 - 1962
Gwen Morrow
1960 - 1961
Sr Mary Vianney
1963 - 1965
Joan Englert
1966 - 1968
1969 - 1971
Evelyn Cowell
1968 - 1969
Norah Fogarty, Rita Stahl &
Joan Englert
Rita Stahl, Joan Englert & Pru Punch
Sr Mary Laboure
(Sr Joy Ginn)
1971 - 1972
Rita Stahl
1973 - 1975
Joan Englert
1972 - 1973
1976 - 1979
Judith Cornell
1979 – 1980
Mair Jones
1975 - 1976
First three Life Members
Joan Englert, Rita Stahl and Norah Spence
1978
Freda Hundt retires
from Sydney Hospital
in 1972
Operating Microscope
1976
NSW OTA Conferences at Bankstown
Judith Meppem
1980 - 1981
Lesley Cooke
1981 - 1982
Merrilyn Cox
1982 - 1984
Narelle Hines
1984 – 1985
Anna-Maria Nagy
1985 - 1986
Brigid Tracey
1988 - 1989
Valerie Thomas
1987 - 1988
Judith Cornell
1986 - 1987
NSW OTA Conference at Bankstown
Ron Clerke
Life
Member
President's Insignia
Designed and presented in 1986 by Lesley Cooke and Jeannie Ross-Fraser
The insignia is handed on to each incoming President
Robyn McEachran
1998 -1999
Lois Hamlin
1999 - 2000
Pauline Walker
1997 - 1998
Margaret
Warby
Janet Stretton
Dorothy Thorn Lesley Pereira
Members of the Executive in the 1980s
John Stuart
1989 - 1990
Ros Berryman
1990 - 1991
1996 - 1997 Lynne Redknap
1991 -1992
1994 - 1995
Menna Davies
1992 - 1993
Phyllis Davis
1995 - 1996
Narelle Hines
1993 - 1994
NSW OTA Conferences at
Darling Harbour
1991 - 1999
NSW Hosts ACORN
Conference 1995
ACORN Executive from NSW
1992 - 1995
Ann Caradus
Lyn Tozer
Sandy Harrison
& Wayne Griffiths
Barbara Hastings &
Colleen Stewart Members of the Executive during the 90s Margaret
Weissman
Birte
Johnbeck
Ann
Haydon
Belinda Chapman
2000 - 2001 Fran O'Brien
2001 - 2003
Menna Davies
2003 - 2005
Jenny Cubitt
2005 - 2007
The NSW OTA is affiliated with The College of Nursing and has used its various premises as a
meeting venue for many years
Allen Street, Glebe
Hereford Street, Glebe
Railway Parade, Burwood
Michelle Beraducci, Current Administrative Assistant
2003 NSW OTA signs Secretariat agreement with The College of Nursing
Kerry Jenson First Administrative Assistant
2003 Conference AJC Randwick
Under the Big Top
Nancy Nurse aka Patty Wootten
2004 Star City
Star Ship OTA: Challenging Boundaries
Up, Up & Away to
Canberra 2005
Life Membership to
Val Corcoran and
Sue Golland
Excellence Award to
Lynda Mitchell
To be Sure, To be Sure!
The Hilton, 2006
2006 Pat Solomon
receives Life Membership
2006 Gillian Walker
receives Life Membership New Graduates - First
Timers to Conference
Jo Edwards and Jenny Pirie
Excellence Awards Roleen Maloney
Vaughn Certificate of
Appreciation
NSW Presidents of ACORN
Judith Cornell
1975 – 1977
First
Chairperson
Phyllis Davis
2000 - 2002
Narelle Hines
1992 - 1995
Lois Hamlin
ACORN Treasurer
2003 - 2005
Jane Waldron
ACORN Secretary
2005 - 2007
MACORNS & a FACORN
Menna Davies inaugural recipient
of ACORN Excellence in
Perioperative Nursing Award
2003
Receiving Honorary ACORN
Fellowship in 2004
NSW OTA First Journals 1968 Rita Stahl First Editor
First edition
of combined
journal
1986
EDITORS of FORCEPS
Judith Cornell
Jane Spaeth
Amanda Adrian
Narelle Hines Dorothy Threlfall
Anna-Marie Nagy
John Stuart
EDITORS of ACORN JOURNAL
Lynne Redknap
EDITORS of ACORN JOURNAL
Pauline Walker
Lois Hamlin
Rebecca Fox
Before ACORN Standards, we had developed our own
NSW OTA advises on the Graduate Certificate
Course conducted by distance education
through The College of Nursing (formerly NSW
College of Nursing)
CLASS OF 1990:
THE FIRST TO
GRADUATE
NSW OTA developed and conducted
Introduction to Perioperative Courses
with the assistance of city hospitals
OTA involved in writing and
producing videos on behalf
of ACORN including
Scrubbing, Gowning &
Gloving in 2002
Menna Davies
Lois Hamlin
Jill Hilbig
Gwenda
Peters
Pat Mannion
NSW contributes to
ACORN Competency
Standards Project Team
1993 - 2002
2006 Inaugural
Perioperative Nurse
Educators’ Seminar
Day
NSW OTA advises
NSW Health on:
* TS10/PD 2005_571
* ‘Time Out’ Policy
* Electronic Medical
Record
* Workforce Issues
2006/7 Executive
2006 NSW OTA advises on the inaugural EN Perioperative
Practice Program (Instrument Nurse Course) conducted by
The College of Nursing
NSW OTA supports
PNG Perioperative
Nurses Society with
payment of
membership fees to
IFPN
2006 Planning Day
Executive at work
Spreading the word!
NSW OPERATING
THEATRE
ASSOCIATION INC
CONFERENCE/
SEMINAR
GRANT
NSW ZONES
Past and Present
Zone 1 Hunter
Zone 5 North Coast
Zone 7 ACT
Zone 6
Illawarra &
South Coast
Manila 1977
Lausanne 1980
Singapore 1988
Vancouver 1991
Adelaide 1993
Helsinki 1999
Barcelona 2005
Christchurch, 2001
NATN- UK
2002 Phyllis Davis delivers the prestigious Daisy Ayris
Memorial Address
Aussie Delegates at Betty's
Perioperative Nurses representation in the
Defence Force
NSW OTA Evelyn Cowell
Defence Force Seminar
Grant
Humanitarian Work
Natalie
Polydoropoulos
Bougainville
Jenny
Cunningham
Kenya
Marj Raggett,
Rhonda Cowderoy
& Ray Southon
Aceh
Mair Jones
Vietnam
Victoria Gilsensan
Kenya
Time to Party!
NSW OTA helps VPNG Celebrate their 50th Birthday in March
Jenny Cubitt with Jennifer Rabach and Judy Bridges from VPNG