Stonnington Citizens of the year Eva de Jong-Duldig (left) and David Southwick (right) pictured with Mayor of Stonnington, Councillor Claude Ullin.
DALIA SABLE
TWO members the Jewish community were recognised in the 2009 City of Stonnington Citizen of the Year Awards.
Presented at Malvern Town Hall recently, Eva de Jong-Duldig received an award for outstanding service to the community in the area of arts and culture and David Southwick for outstanding service to the community in the area of youth.
Director of public museum and art gallery the Duldig Studio, de Jong-Duldig works to promote art and culture in the local community, as well as to regional, national and international audiences.
“I am thrilled and proud,” de Jong-Duldig told The AJN. “It was very unexpected because I didn’t even know I had been nominated. I received a call from the mayor congratulating me on my nominations and then informing me that I had won.”
De Jong-Duldig aid she was pleased by the award because it reflects positively on the museum and the work done by the people at the museum.
Southwick, who was preselected as Liberal member for Caulfield last month, is president of the Adroch Youth Foundation with which he has been involved for almost two decades, as well being involvement with Try Youth and Community Services for over a decade.
“I felt very proud to receive this award and have my family attend the ceremony,” Southwick told The AJN. He thanked his father, who has been in ill health, for instilling in him the values of community service.
Southwick also said he plans “to continue and further this passion through politics”.
The Citizen of the Year Awards were presented in seven categories by the Mayor of Stonnington, Councillor Claude Ullin, at at a gala event.
Watch Eva de Jong-Duldig receive her City of Stonnington Citizen of the Year Award:
get your facts right (03 Sep 09) in my first sentence I was asking a question not stating facts necessarily. While Catherine Kraina (03 Sep 09) seems to have answered my question.
David Southwick used to live in Stonnington but has moved to Caulfield. David was a resident of Stonnington for part of the year covered by the awards.
Adrian Jackson It would help if you got your facts right. David does live in Caulfield.
Are we to assume from this that David Southwick does not live in Caulfield electorate but across Dandenong Rd in Stonnington? Nothing wrong with a candidate not living in his proposed electorate though and other MP’s live a long distance away; for example Simon Crean lives in Middle Park but his electroate is miles away down the coast of Port Phillip Bay