The Queen's Birthday 2009 Honours List - Governor-General of the ...

MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISIONMrs Barbara Helen SILINIS, 34 McInnes Street, Weston ACT 2611For service to the Lithuanian community of Canberra.Secretary, Canberra Lithuanian Community Association Inc, 2000-2007; current FunctionCoordinator.President, Canberra Lithuanian-Australia Club, 1999; Committee Member, 1991-1998;Committee Member and Organiser, Australian-Lithuanian Days, 1984.Organiser, New Year's Ball for the 51st Lithuanian Sports Festival, 2001.Member, Lithuanian National Folk Dancing Group, since 1978.Member, Lithuanian Scouts Group 'Baltijos Tuntas', 1978-1990s; Scouts Group 'Zidiny's',since 1990s; current Secretary/Treasurer.Awards include:Medal of Merit, World Lithuanian Scout Central Headquarters, USA.Mrs Lurline Dorothy SIMPSON, 15 Alsace Lane, Peakhurst NSW 2210For service to the community of southern Sydney through a range of church, healthand disability organisations.Associated with the St Matthew's Uniting Church, for the past 40 years; Teacher, Children'sMinistry, for the past 40 years.Founding Member and Chair, St George Women's Interfaith Network, since 2004.Foundation Community Representative, Management Advisory Committee, South EasternSydney Illawarra, BreastScreen NSW, since 1994.Member, former NSW Breast and Cervical Cancer Recruitment Working Party.Community Representative, former Healthier Women's Implementation Committee, AreaWomen's Health Unit, South Eastern Sydney Illawarra.Community Representative, former Cancer Care Continuum.Associate Member, St George Association for People with Disabilities, since 1981; Treasurer,International Year of Disabled People Committee, 1980-1981.Founding Member, Disability Access Committee, Hurstville City Council, since 1993.Vice-President, Friends of the St George Regional Museum, since 2004.Foundation Member, Mortdale Community Services, since 1971.Member, Committee, Sutherland Branch, Older Women's Network NSW, since 1988.Founding Member and Inaugural President, Hurstville Labor Women's Committee, since theearly 1960s.Member, Australian Labor Party, for 58 years.National President, Union of Australian Women, in the 1960s.Member, Committee, New South Wales Branch, Clan Fraser Society, for the past 20 years.Founding President, St George Foundation 41 Auxiliary Group, 1977-1994.Secretary, Hurstville City Lady Mayoress' Charity Fund, for 4 years.Justice of the Peace, for over 40 years.Awards include:Centenary Medal, 2001.321