A Service for Probus
Updated 10 March 2010
CANADA
Brian Kirkwood
CO-WEBMASTER - CANADA
Brian
Kirkwood of
the Probus Club of Wasaga Beach, serves as CO-PUBLISHER (WEBMASTER) with
colleague Peter Preager, for the
Brian
was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1942 and served an apprenticeship in
Naval Architecture in the Ship Design Offices of Harland & Wolff's
Shipyard in Belfast. He moved to Canada
in
1964 and worked for 12 years on the ship design staff at the Collingwood
Shipyards in Collingwood,
On
retirement, Brian and
Brian
serves as Secretary to the Probus Club of
Brian can be contacted by e-mail at probus@probus.org or brian.kirkwood@sympatico.ca , by telephone at (705) 429-2406 or by fax at (705) 429-5499
Peter Preager
CO-WEBMASTER - CANADA
Peter
Preager, of the Probus Club of Wasaga Beach, serves as CO-PUBLISHER
(WEBMASTER), with colleague Brian Kirkwood, for the
Canada Web Pages (www.probus.org).
Peter
was born in England in 1951 and came to Ontario in 1965 by way of Paris,
France (where he lived for 18 months). Peter met and married his wife Joan in
1971 and then moved from Toronto to Ottawa for 12 years. Peter’s career has
always been in the technical Information Technology field. After working for a
medical technology firm and a computer firm in Ottawa, his work took him back
to Toronto to work for the Ontario Government for 14 years where he
specialized in Operations and Project Management. After leaving the Ontario
Government, he worked for various technology consulting firms providing
project management, operational support and technology services to major
organizations. He retired from consulting in 2007 and moved to Wasaga Beach,
Ontario with Joan where they had been coming to visit family for over 25
years.
Peter
and Joan spend most of their summer time on their boat on Georgian Bay. Other
interests include motorcycling, bicycling, skiing and playing guitar. Also,
they both are active in their respective Probus Clubs. Joan is the membership
secretary for the (women’s) Probus at the Beach club.
Peter
currently is the Newsletter editor for the Probus Club of Wasaga Beach.
Peter can be contacted by email at probus@probus.org or probus@preager.com or by telephone at (705) 429-7733.
INTERNATIONAL
Arch Roberts
Arch Roberts of the Heidelberg Mens Probus Club in Melbourne, Victoria was born in Narrandera in New South Wales, Australia in 1941. He was educated in Sydney and graduated from the University of Sydney with a Master of Engineering Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He was subsequently employed in the Department of Defence for 35 years as an Armaments Engineer. His career took him to many places overseas.
He has lived and worked in the US for two years, has been to the UK quite a few times, and also made brief working visits to Belgium, Canada, the USA, Singapore, and Wales. Apart from these he has had some spare time to drive around Scotland, and the east coast of North America including Quebec, Montreal (Expo '67!) and back south via Ontario to Buffalo and Philadelphia. He has also made a private visit to Indonesia a long time ago , and just recently to New Zealand.
Towards the end of his term, he took the opportunity
to indulge in some more post graduate studies and obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in
Ergonomics.
He has two children. His daughter is a pharmacist and his son has recently
graduated from Melbourne University with a music degree.
Arch is now retired completely. He has been the Secretary and Newsletter editor of the
Heidelberg Mens Probus Club in Melbourne, Victoria for nearly three years. The Club has
been going since May 1983 and has 118 members.
He is also an assistant editor of the state Mercedes
Benz Club magazine. He owns two of these cars, a 1975 coupe and a 1981 convertible.
His many interests include computing, music of all kinds, "old" cars, and
much more.
Since assuming the responsibility as publisher of all International pages of the Probus website early in 2000, Arch has modified the design of most International pages and under his guidance, the International pages have grown and continue to grow.
Arch Roberts can be contacted by e-mail at arch@melbpc.org.au
CLICK HERE FOR PUBLISHING POLICY
THE FOLLOWING VOLUNTEERS SUPPORT THE
EDITORS:
INTERNATIONAL EMAIL RESPONSES - PUBLISHERS probus@probus.org
OFFICIAL UPDATES CANADIAN CLUBS - PUBLISHERS probus@probus.org
MONTHLY CANADIAN CLUB NEWSLETTERS ON WEB PAGE - BRIAN KIRKWOOD and PETER
PREAGER probus@probus.org
CANADA ROTARY EMAIL PROMO AND RESPONSE - REG WHYNOTT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CANADA rwhynott@nanaimo.ark.com
SEND YOUR CLUB NEWS TO CANADA NEWS - REG WHYNOTT rwhynott@nanaimo.ark.com
INTERNATIONAL PROBUS NETWORK MEMBERSHIP - KEITH BOWER kbower@netspace.net.au
INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER - WAYNE TESTER http://www.vaxxine.com/wtester
Please contact the Publishers with any CLUB DATA, Probus corrections, or messages to Probus Center. They will be redirected if needed for a reply.
EMAIL - probus@probus.org
Telephone - (705) 429-2406
Fax - (705)
429-5499
MAILING ADDRESS
Brian Kirkwood, Co-Publisher
37 Fatima Court, Wasaga Beach, On.,
CANADA, L9Z 1K9
