Tasmanian Rotarians Phil and Joyce Ogden are about to mount their tandem bicycle and stage an epic fundraiser to support Rotary’s END POLIO NOW campaign.
With thirty years of tandem cycling behind them, they plan to leave Perth in mid May and ride the 2,750 km to Adelaide to support Rotary’s premier world project – with the support of their South Launceston Rotary Club.
They have been Rotarians for over ten years and have been passionate supporters and donors since first hearing of the END POLIO NOW campaign.
A retired anaesthetist, Phil has witnessed first hand the terrible legacy of the Polio epidemic of the fifties and the ongoing threat to children of the world until the Rotary inspired campaign worked its magic over the last 30 plus years.
Many of you will associate me with the membership roles I’ve held in Rotary. Yet in my professional life, outside Rotary, much of my career has focused on marketing and communications. For almost a decade, I taught Marketing Principles to undergraduate and postgraduate students at University. Later, when I moved into University management, I put those principles into practice - marketing the University’s programs to business, government and international students.
