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Page 6 July <strong>2017</strong><br />
Vale—Joan Stalker-Brown<br />
It is with sadness and a heavy heart<br />
that we say goodbye to our dear friend,<br />
and actor/director.<br />
In a life so full, she was involved with<br />
so many productions that it would take<br />
a entire newsletter to record them all.<br />
She and I had something in common<br />
inasmuch as she had attended<br />
SCEGGS in Darlinghurst, NSW and I<br />
had been a music teacher at SCEGGS<br />
in Moss Vale, NSW.<br />
I first came across Joan in my many<br />
trips to see productions she had put on<br />
at Javeenbah; then one day, she joined<br />
TMLT. From memory, her first<br />
production with TMLT was as an actor<br />
in Steel Magnolias, in 2011.<br />
Then, in the following year, she produced the hilarious The<br />
Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Town's Women Guild<br />
Dramatic Society – Murder Mystery. She had a great cast and<br />
was keen to direct another play, so in 2013 she produced Funny<br />
Money. Oh, the fun we had producing lots of stage £ notes!<br />
Joan’s last production with TMLT was the Farndale Christmas<br />
Carol in 2014.<br />
I found her a joy to work with, and I certainly learnt a great deal<br />
about directing. It was a privilege to sit beside her and assist,<br />
and generally be her gofer. Joan will have touched the hearts of<br />
all who worked with her and her name will go down in history.<br />
She is now up in that theatre in the sky, no longer suffering the<br />
indignity of the illness that made her final days so frustrating.<br />
Always a very independent woman, with strong views, she was<br />
definitely a colourful character. Good on you, Joan; you will be<br />
missed. RIP<br />
Barbara Lassiter<br />
TMLT Committee Members<br />
Patron<br />
Vanessa Bull OA<br />
President<br />
Cath Buckley - 5545 2236<br />
forbucks@bigpond.net.au<br />
Secretary<br />
Brian Franklin - 5545 2096<br />
superhero50@hotmail.com<br />
Vice President<br />
Kate Tardy<br />
Treasurer<br />
VACANT<br />
Assistant Treasurer<br />
Rosie Powell<br />
Membership Secretary<br />
Graham Lassiter - 5545 3631<br />
glas@bigpond.net.au<br />
Social Secretary<br />
VACANT<br />
Editor of <strong>Titbits</strong><br />
Warrick Bailey - 5545 0819<br />
workingoptions1@bigpond.com<br />
Website Coordinator<br />
Naomi Blythe - 5545 4786<br />
naomi_blythe@internode.on.net<br />
Providore<br />
Lyn Howard<br />
Publicity Officer<br />
Louise Haggerty - 0408 159494<br />
journee@live.co.uk<br />
Zamia Theatre Manager<br />
Maura Gaughan - 5545 1923<br />
Movie Coordinator<br />
John St Clair - 5545 3517<br />
jts101@gmail.com<br />
Movie Club Coordinator<br />
Jenny McConaghy - 0466 313648<br />
jmelnido776@gmail.com<br />
Brian Franklin<br />
Cath Buckley<br />
Lyn Howard<br />
Kate Tardy<br />
Zamia Management<br />
Sub-committee<br />
TMLT website<br />
www.tmlt.com.au<br />
Newsletter by<br />
Barbara Lassiter<br />
5545 3631<br />
blass@bigpond.net.au<br />
Maura Gaughan
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