Sports Pad Plaque - Brisbane, Australia (LEGACY)
S 27° 32.610 E 152° 58.589
56J E 497678 N 6953364
A plaque located on the grounds of the Montrose Home for Crippled Children in the Corinda area of Brisbane, Australia.
Waymark Code: WM5XGW
Location: Queensland, Australia
Date Posted: 02/25/2009
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The plaque features the Rotary International symbol and reads as follows: "This Sports Pad was opened by The Hon. Dr. L.R. Edwards, M.L.A., Minister for Health on 18th June, 1978. Donated by the Rotary Club of Brisbane North."
From the RGHF Rotary Global History website:
The Montrose Home for Crippled Children was established in 1933. In 1932/33, the Rotary Club of Brisbane, in President Rotarian WK McLuckie's year, formed the Queensland Society for Crippled Children. The then Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Rotarian JW Greene, presided at a public meeting when the Queensland Society for Crippled Children was formed. At this meeting, a provisional directorate was elected, and the Club handed over to the directorate 1,140 pounds which the club raised for the purpose of inaugurating the society. Rotarian JT Isles was elected President of the Society.
In the 1934/35 year, when Rotarian Walter Darker was President, Rotarian WJ Isles died, and was replaced as President of the Society by Rotarian Bill McLuckie.
The Rotary Club of Brisbane was the first club in Australia to have a visit from Paul Harris, in 1935, and he planted the Friendship Tree at Taringa. Later the Society outgrew the Taringa site, and moved to its present location at Corinda, also donated by the Marchant family.