April 2018 - Presentation of 60 Year Bar to R Wor Bro Warwick Pace, PJGW

R WOR BRO WARWICK RAYMOND PACE PJGW

Summary of 60 Year Bar Presentation – 23 April 2018 by R Wor Bro Rod Rowe, PSGW

SCOUTING
• Cub at 1st Yallourn in mid 40’s
• Transferred to 1st Hartwell in late 40’s, where he was a Scout, Senior Scout (where he was awarded the Queen’s Scout Badge) & on to Rovers
• Became ASM to Alister Clarke in mid-50’s.
• Appointed RL, but only held the post for a short time because, in his own words, “It was a disaster”
• Succeeded Alister as SM, and held the position for a number of years, very successfully as I can attest, having been one of his scouts.
• Became ADC Scouts in Camberwell District, and then in Camberwell South District when the District was split
• Moved to AAC Scouts, East Suburban Area
• Appointed to the Training Team, where he ran Explanatory & Prelim. Courses and Wood Badge Part 2 Courses. One of the Trainees was Sir Robert Risson
• He was about to be awarded his 4th Wood Badge bead, however his 2nd child was due, he was in a Grand Lodge Team as a JGD, & he was Department Head,
& he felt that it would have been too much of a commitment, so he declined.
• Finished his Scouting in the early 70’s

WORK
• Is a qualified Radiographer – studied at RMIT
• First appointment was at Royal Children’s Hospital, then located in Pelham St, Carlton
• He was head-hunted to Box Hill Hospital, where he was Chief Radiographer for almost 30 years (early 60’s to mid 90’s)
• Also worked part-time at William Angliss Hospital in FTG and Maroondah Hospital at Ringwood

LODGE
• Initiated into BP on 28th April 1958. Proposed by Alister Clarke, seconded by Fred Watson
• Passed in December 1958 and raised in November 1959
• Steward from 1961 to 1964 & then all positions to WM, installed in 1970
• After his term as Chaplain in 1972, he was appointed JGD in the 1973/74 Grand Lodge Team (my late cousin Bob Rowe was SGD)
• He was Asst Inspector of Workings for 3 lodges
• Filled in as Steward, Snr Steward, acting Tyler & Organist on occasions
• He dropped out of Lodge for a number of years, as he was doing charitable work on Mondays, but we managed to get him back in time for presentation of his 50 year jewel.
• Since then, he has been a regular at Rehearsals, often acting as candidate, and at almost all set-ups
• He acted as IPM in the place of Adrian Kamer, who was then in a G/L team, & also in the year following Charles’ year as WM
• He has been a mentor to IGs over the past few years

PERSONAL
• Now aged 81, so he joined very soon after his 21st Birthday
• He was married in 1967 to Jeanette, a Dietician
• They have 2 children – Graeme (born 1970) and Heather (born 1973), & have 4 grandchildren, 2 to each of their children

2013 - THE GILWELL GATES

During 2013, Baden Powell Lodge No 488 recently made a donation of $957 to the Gilwell Park Heritage Team to assist with the restoration of the timber gates at the beginning of the Chiefs Approach walkway.

History records that Arch Hoadley, Lord Somers and Baden Powell used that route (then a bush track- later widened and beautified by Arch Hoadley) to walk from the Lodge to the training ground to talk to and inspire the candidates at the Woodbadge course being held in the training ground. The Chiefs Approach is the only area at Gilwell named to honour Lord Baden Powell.

All of the restoration work is under the direction of world renowned Heritage Architect Arthur Andronas, principal of Andronas Heritage Architects, who works pro bono for the team. The gates were originally made using mortise and tenon joints. Because of this they have to be repaired by the same method. No nails are used. The "bolts" on the criss cross are only ornamental. They do not have any construction or strengthening ability. To do this the gates have been brought to a specialty workshop. The work is being performed by Bill Snoeks, Builder and Heritage Conservator who usually repairs Gothic arches in historic churches.

It was not till the gates were removed that it became obvious that the rot was worse than could originally be seen, with not much more than the paint holding things together in many places. This required additional timber, and this cost has been made available from the funds of the Gilwell Park Heritage Team.

The gates have to be restored to their original condition, using the original methods of construction, and the refitment will be officially celebrated in a ceremony to mark the occasion on Sunday 26th January 2014.

GILWELL GATES - UPDATE - November 2014

In November 2014, the restored gates were offically installed and handed over in a ceremony attended by a number of Baden Powell Lodge brethren.

The workmanship and restored state is well shown in these pictures below.

GILWELL GATES - UPDATE - 20th September 2015

Baden Powell Lodge No 488, Wor. Master Charles Charalambous presenting a cheque to the Gilwell Heritage Team covering repairs to the Russell Troop Room.
Presented on 20th September 2015 at Gilwell Park.

GILWELL HERITAGE TEAM - UPDATE - 25th November 2015

Baden Powell Lodge No 488, Wor. Master Russell Bradd presenting a cheque for $2000.00 to Mr Rob Millen, Team Leader of the Gilwell Heritage Team
in the recently refurbished Russell Troop Room at Gilwell Park.

2013 - Russell Troop Hall Restoration - Commemorative Plaque

2012 - Pics and News from Founders Night 2012 Download PDF File (1.3Mb)

2009 - Totem Pole at Gilwell Park - Presented 29th August 2009

The Totem Pole & its Sculptor, V. Wor. Bro. Max Martin	The Campfire	The Totem Pole from the opposite angle
Front - Upper	Front - Centre	Front - Lower
Wardens of Gilwell	Wood Beads	Oak Tree & Gavel

Explanation of the 14 carvings on the Totem Pole