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