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Interview 5
Your new Vice Presidents for 2015
Outgoing President Dick Griffin has created five new vice presidents for their various
contributions to the club in recent years. Their individual stories are given below.
Sheila Griffin a position in which she has champion. (She also ranks
revolutionised the availability in the top 10 (8th at time of
Sheila joined the club in and distribution of it. writing) in both the 200m
1994. “I joined the club as a and long jump.)
Social Member in nineteen Jackie Montgomery
hundred and frozen to death Joining Blackheath and Jackie has represented the
and have been socialising Bromley Harriers is, says Southern Counties Masters
regularly in the bar and at Jackie, definitely one of the team in England Athletics
BBQs”. She has volunteered best things she has ever Inter-Area matches. She has
to help the club in almost done. She became a member also turned out for the club’s
everything apart from with husband, Ian, in March Southern Athletics League
athletics! However she says 2008, having taken some team, often ‘filling in for a
that “I love all the Athletics, persuading that such a high point’ in various events, in
especially heading the shot profile club catered for ladies addition to pole vault, and
and catching the javelin of- shall we say – maturing on a couple of occasions-
and am keen to participate years and little experience. when the team manager was
in the pole vault limbo, She joined John Robinson’s particularly desperate!- for the
having recently become a full training group at Norman UK Women’s League team.
member and therefore eligible Park track and was soon
to compete.” pointed in the direction of As well as competing, Jackie
the ladies’ Kent Masters is keen to ‘do her bit’ for
She has helped in the Tuck League team, where she has club in other ways. She had
Shop at Norman Park, remained a regular member, a stint assisting the UKWL
served teas at the club HQ, turning out for most matches team manager with travel
marshalled at cross country and willing to have a go at and accommodation, has
events, helped fund raise most events – so long as they helped out as results recorder
for the club and last year don’t involve running further at various matches and has
was instrumental in getting than 400m! occasionally stood in for SAL
a donation to the club of In 2011, while ‘filling in for a team managers. For the last
£5,000 which helped us point’, Jackie discovered her few years she has regularly
buy the de-fibrillator at the main event, pole vault. In her volunteered as a marshal
club. Together with husband age group she is currently during the cross country
IPP Dick Griffin she helps ranked number 1 in the season (a good excuse for
organise the monthly Parris UK, and is Kent, Southern not running herself!) An
Handicaps held through Counties and British injury-enforced break from
the Summer months. She competing a few years ago
is now in charge of club kit prompted her to try her
hand at field judging and
she continues to officiate as
often as she can. Outside
of athletics, Jackie’s other
passion is singing and she
feels privileged to have been
asked to sing at some of the
