Fine and upstanding citizens
TWO members the Jewish community were recognised in the 2009 City of Stonnington Citizen of the Year Awards.
DALIA SABLE
TWO members the Jewish community were recognised in the 2009 City of Stonnington Citizen of the Year Awards.
Presented at Malvern Town Hall recently, Eva de Jong-Duldig received an award for outstanding service to the community in the area of arts and culture and David Southwick for outstanding service to the community in the area of youth.
Director of public museum and art gallery the Duldig Studio, de Jong-Duldig works to promote art and culture in the local community, as well as to regional, national and international audiences.
“I am thrilled and proud,” de Jong-Duldig told The AJN. “It was very unexpected because I didn’t even know I had been nominated. I received a call from the mayor congratulating me on my nominations and then informing me that I had won.”
De Jong-Duldig aid she was pleased by the award because it reflects positively on the museum and the work done by the people at the museum.
Southwick, who was preselected as Liberal member for Caulfield last month, is president of the Adroch Youth Foundation with which he has been involved for almost two decades, as well being involvement with Try Youth and Community Services for over a decade.
“I felt very proud to receive this award and have my family attend the ceremony,” Southwick told The AJN. He thanked his father, who has been in ill health, for instilling in him the values of community service.
Southwick also said he plans “to continue and further this passion through politics”.
The Citizen of the Year Awards were presented in seven categories by the Mayor of Stonnington, Councillor Claude Ullin, at at a gala event.
Watch Eva de Jong-Duldig receive her City of Stonnington Citizen of the Year Award:
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