history

1999/2000
President Neil Fraser
Secretary Beverley Donoghoe/Mal Taylor
Treasurer David Bristow

2000/2001
President Jim Kefford
Secretary Mal Taylor
Treasurer Corrie Parkinson

The Rotary Club of Noosa Heads Daybreak chartered on 19 May 1999
after a whirlwind five months from the concept to Charter Night.

Our parent club, the Rotary Club of Noosa Heads, had a member resign early in 1999, suggesting that the evening meetings were too difficult for family people and many business people. That sparked a round of meetings and it was agreed that perhaps it was time to see if the community would support a Rotary Club that met in the mornings.
The idea was right for the time and 77 people showed up at the first meeting of interest in April, 1999. Of those attending, 52 committed to join the new club. And a month later the Rotary Club of Noosa Heads Daybreak became official.
Searching through the community for meeting venue was concluded with the generous support of the Reef Hotel, overlooking sunrise on Laguna Bay.

Neil Fraser was elected as the first Club President and served from Charter night through to June, 2000. During the club's first year, the club embraced the Australian School Achiever's Program assisting youth in the community and joined with the Noosa Council to create a skate park, again youth focussed.

Steering Charter Committee members from the parent club were, Roy Stone, Denis Daebritz(DG Special Representative), Kevin Bowe, Harold Flewellen and Geoff Bone, with Neil Fraser, Jim Kefford, Derek Cunningham, Aubrey Cannon, David Bristow and Beverley Donoghoe.

Charter Members comprised 36 men and a welcome 16 ladies who in alphabetical order were.............: John Affleck, Peter Bolitho, David Bristow(Treasurer) , Paul Callaghan, Aubrey Cannon, Philip Crawford, Rachel Crawford, Gail Crummer, Derek Cunningham, Kevin Devlin, Beverley Donoghoe(Secretary), Wayne Dunn, Lyndel Elias, Gary Elks, Barry Elms, Neil Fraser(President), Belinda Griffin, Richard Heath, Michael Hinds, Joanne Hope, Jim Kefford(Vice President/President Elect), Mark Kime, David Kuri, Suzanne Lee, Tom Lonie, John McAlpin, Ian McDonald, David McMahon, Joseph McMahon, Christine Medler, Paul Meehan, Lynne Merrall, Steve Murray, Pauline Olson, Rod Olson, Anne Oxley, Stephen Padgett, Corrie Parkinson, Mark Pearson, Kym Rainier, George Reid, Lynn Robertson, Sally Salt, Bronte Shields, Colin Smyth, Kerry Stevens, Mervyn Tait, Mal Taylor, Mark Upson, Gerry Van Pypen, Chris Warren, Peter Yeo.