Guest Speaker:
Dick Whitaker
at 2 pm on Saturday 17 June 2023
when Dick Whitaker presents...
Our guest speaker will be KHS member, author and renowned meteorologist, Dick Whitaker.
Always a popular guest speaker, Dick returns with a tale of the changing fortunes of this early inner suburb – from colonial farms and country estates to rapid overdevelopment, followed by a lengthy slump to slum status, and then a return to desirability over the past 50 years.
About Dick Whitaker
After graduating from Monash University in Science in 1968, Dick was conscripted and served two years in the Army, ending his military career as an infantry junior officer with 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment.
He joined the Bureau of Meteorology soon after and began a public service career that would last some thirty-one years. Dick left the Bureau in 2002, but never lost the “weather bug” and came out of retirement to begin his own meteorological consultancy business. He was Chief Meteorologist with Sky News Weather up until 2016 and appeared regularly on radio and television.
Dick is an experienced lecturer and has delivered numerous presentations on history and the weather to such groups as Probus, Rotary, Libraries, U3A, bushfire brigades, historical societies, schools and business groups.
Dick is very interested in history and meteorological education, particularly through television, radio, and books, and has been author, co-author and consultant editor of seventeen books about the weather, including publications for Time-Life and Reader’s Digest.
His latest book is From Gods to Gigabytes – A Brief History of Weather Forecasting. Signed copies will be available for $25 (cash only, so please try to bring the exact amount).
The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).
It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.
For a map and parking information, see our Contact page.
