Mount Lawley Golf Club - The first fifty years (1928 - 1978)

The following chapters are excerpts from Mount Lawleys Book 'Mount Lawley Golf Club - The first fifty years (1928 - 1978)'. Click on the chapter title to view the text.

Chapter Seven : Life Membership

Life Membership of any organisation is an honour, indeed, and especially to be made a life member of Mount Lawley Golf Club calls for amazing devotion, sincerity, decorum and lots of hard work to the furthering of a rather, irksome and frustrating game.

A few people over the years have made the grade and we gratefully acknowledge their achievements and devotion to our club.

In 1932 when it was decided to make Harry Glick and Carl Klem life members, discussion in committee took place for the club to ahve a crest designed for general use and that a Life Members badge could be inaugurated.

The drawing (pictured) is the original crest accepted and struck. This design was adopted from Sir Arthur Lawley's family crest, (later Lord Waldeck). The club wrote to Lord Waldeck's family in England who gave permission for the crest to be used.

In 1956, Messrs. Bill Hunter and A. W. Campbell suggested that Mount Lawley Golf Club should have a new design as a club blazer was to be introduced. The Committee at the time thought the laurel design with the initials M.L.G.C. would be more acceptable, henceforth the crest is in use today.