This is a growing collection of personal stories from members who volunteer with U3A Melbourne City. It showcases just some of the many people who lend their talents to our organisation, with their huge variety of interesting backgrounds, abilities and interests.
If you are one of our volunteers and would like to add your story to the collection, write it in your own informal voice in about 500 to 700 words. We’d like to hear briefly about:
- your background – places you’ve lived, work, family, interests
- when and why you joined U3A and if it has made a difference to you
- your U3A volunteering and why that is important to you
. . . and include a photo (jpg or JPEG), preferably illustrating an aspect of your story (no ‘mugshots’, please!)
Email it to the office at citymelb@u3a.org.au with ‘Volunteering Voices’ in the subject line, and you will be contacted.
| Eleanor Blyth | Office staffer | Joined 2010 |
| Bill Claiborne | Tutor (Political Journalism) | Joined 2005 |
| Rhonda Favaloro | Tutor (Botanical Art) | Joined 2004 |
| Joan Gravina | Tutor (Post-Beginners Italian) | Joined 2010 |
| Shirley Mason | Office staffer, Social Events Coordinator & Committee | Joined 2009 |
| Fran Sciarretta | Office Administration & Committee | Joined 2008 |
| Margaret Ledley | Group Leader (Philosophical Issues) | Joined 1980s |
| David Watson | Newsletter copying & Committee | Joined 2009 |
| Peter Hannaford | Tutor (Art Skills) | Joined 2009 |
| Sadako Martin | Tutor (Japanese - Basic) | Joined 2009 |
| Nancy Hanson | Office staffer | Joined 2009 |
| Anne Riddell | Newsletter Editor & Committee | Joined 2006 |
| Carolyne Cohn | Committee Secretary | Joined 2006 |
| Betty Caldwell | Tutor (Wednesday Writers) | Joined 2002 |