{"id":2901,"date":"2026-05-05T17:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:29:34","slug":"guest-speakers-dougal-athol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/?p=2901","title":{"rendered":"Guest Speakers Dougal &#038; Athol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"899\" src=\"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Doogle-Pitt-Presentation-1024x899.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Doogle-Pitt-Presentation-1024x899.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Doogle-Pitt-Presentation-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Doogle-Pitt-Presentation-768x674.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Doogle-Pitt-Presentation-1536x1349.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Doogle-Pitt-Presentation-2048x1798.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Doogle-Pitt-Presentation-1200x1054.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s always wonderful to have local identities as the guest speaker at our meeting to delve deeper into the history in our community, or tell us more about themselves &amp; their area of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Dougal Pitt, the BWMCA President, filled us in on the role the Buderim War Memorial Association plays in our community, both historically &amp; currently. Our members are well aware of the association&#8217;s role in organizing so many of our fantastic community events such as Buderim Carols, Dog&#8217;s Day Out, ANZAC Day and Jazz in The Park through our own involvement with many of these, however, it is the BWMCA&#8217;s role in the preservation of many of Buderim&#8217;s heritage buildings we found of particular interest, &amp; the services it provides for the community. Buderim is certainly blessed to have the BWMCA, and the volunteers who work there, at the heart of our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous week we welcomed Athol Lubbe, who is involved with both the Historical Society and the BWMCA, speak to us about his passion for architecture &amp; design through the ages. Athol&#8217;s presentation, cleverly highlighting design from an era which drew many of us back to our childhood days, had us all admitting that we too, had lava lamps, orange &amp; olive green laminex, and flying geese on the wall! We look forward to having Athol back to guide us through other architectural eras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always wonderful to have local identities as the guest speaker at our meeting to delve deeper into the history in our community, or tell us more about themselves &amp; their area of interest. On Friday, Dougal Pitt, the BWMCA President, filled us in on the role the Buderim War Memorial Association plays in our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/?p=2901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guest Speakers Dougal &#038; Athol&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}