While I was sitting around doing nothing because Joan was in Mandura attending our Grandsons Wedding, and Les Mann was at home having Hot Cross Buns for Good Friday Breakfast, I thought that I ought to do something to pass the time between 9.00am and happy hour. I checked Paul's Web site and noticed that Alan Neems had done a good job of introducing himself on Profile, and Dick Farrant was still trying to find some where to put his plug, so I will make an attempt to present my ought to biography. So here goes. I was born very early in life at Marulan in March 1930.1 feel that due to the fact that I was number eight in a family often, and that there was ten years between my next older sister and myself, I was very lucky that Dad and Mum had not learned about birth control. Had they known about how much trouble I would be to feed in the Depression I think that they would have had second thoughts. My School years were spent at the Marulan Public School and the Goulburn High School and ceased the day that Japan surrendered in 1945. My early working years were spent in the retail Grocery trade before joining the NSW Government Railways. Much of this time was spent in various positions within the organization in country and metropolitan NSW. I enjoyed music in all forms and spent most of my spare time playing in small orchestras around Sydney. The road transport industry was becoming a reality in the after war years, and this was where I spent the rest of my working life, starting off as a small truck driver, then becoming a big truck driver. From here I gravitated to Petrol tankers, and then into administration. One of my senior managers at my retirement dinner remarked that I had advanced through the ranks from small truck driver to senior management, spending time as acting manager and on retirement I won the cleaning contract and ended up as the cleaner. After much rampaging through my teenage years, I met Joan, who saw some possibilities in me and decided to make me her life project. Joan came from Tallong which is about ten kilometres from Marulan, so we really did not go too far before we found each other. Our daughter Rhonda was our first joy, and she and Phil have presented us with three grand daughters and to date two great grand children. We were only allowed to keep our son Graham for eight months which was a devastating blow to both of us. Dianne and Peter have completed the family and have given us a beautiful granddaughter and two very down to earth grandsons, who are all working very hard at increasing our great grandchildren population. I enjoy my golf, and more particularly my association with the IVGA and the NSWVGA. They are a great mob to work with, and I hope that through my efforts I can contribute my share to the ongoing success of the game for the traveling veteran Golfer, and in so doing can contribute to the financial success of the Golf Clubs of New South Wales who see fit to give our organization time on their courses.

Trevor Bell