Snow Rochefort and Grey Swimming Club committee members with USA Olympic gold medalist Clarke Scholes

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DescriptionSnow Rochefort and Grey Swimming Club committee members (including Kevin and Hugh O’Leary) with USA Olympic gold medalist Clarke ScholesDate of Photo1953Map^[1]ContributorDesmond O’Leary

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Location (city or town)GreymouthPersonSnow RochefortClarke ScholesKevin O’LearyHugh O’LearyOrganisation (eg business)Grey Swimming Club

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Date Created29th June 2024CommentsRoger Smith
Remember the ‘voluntary’hours Snowy put in to hell locals..

Heather Newby

Roger Smith yes..i still remember him upstairs at the pool watching over us.He was strict but kind.

Laurie Anisy
Great man was Snowy. he also used to be the sexton at Karoro Cemetery.

Heather Newby
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Laurie Anisy he was a great swim instructor as well

Des N Hazel O'Leary
at the right, Kevin O'Leary, Hugh O'Leary

Sandra Arnott
Great fella eh!

Mary Fenemor
Hello there. Is the Lady, that put up a post, on Here, last Year ,thinking , of a Reunion, of the Greymouth Swimming Club , did Anything come of it ? Asking for a Friend, Thankyou

Ian Haussmann
Great guy snow looked after us kids at the town pool

Barbara Fitzsimmons
Ian Haussmann He did and all .

Peter Robertson
I'd say,by the time he dived into the old pool,his head would hit the end??

Peter Robertson
I'd say,by the time he dived into the old pool,his head would hit the end??

George McKenzie
Fairly sure Ron Lovell is third from left. Ron was a journalist at the Greymouth Evening Star at the time before transferring to the Nelson Evening Mail in the late 1950s.

Des N Hazel O'Leary
Snow on left, on right Kevin O'Leary, crouching Hugh O'Leary

John O'Leary
Melva Crampton The two on the rights are my uncle Kevin O'Leary and my father Hughie O'Leary both stalwarts of the swimming club for years.They came from a family of strong swimmers and instilled a love of swimming in their own families too

Melva Crampton
Date of photo would be 28 February 1953, according to the itinerary published in the Press, 16 Feb 1953. Can anyone name the Swim Club men, other than Snowy and Clarke?

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Snow Rochefort and Grey Swimming Club committee members with USA Olympic gold medalist Clarke Scholes

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