Board Members

John Stewart

John Stewart will only admit to having a bite worse than his bark.

Dan Leddin

Currently Dan is the Vice President of the Goldfields FM Board of Management. As a recently retired school principal he brings considerable management skills both to the Board and to Goldfields FM. He has managed high-functioning teams for many years. He also has strong links to the Central Goldfields community.

Having built his first computer many years ago, and been responsible for building computer networks in schools, he also brings considerable information technology expertise to the operations of Goldfields FM.

Jan Tribe

Jan has been involved with Strengthening Goldfields Community Radio (Goldfields FM) since 2002 and, after a short break, rejoined in 2004.

Jan had the pleasure of assisting Bruce Leech with the preparation of our application for a Temporary Community Broadcasting Licence. After obtaining our Temporary Licence in 2007 Jan was elected Secretary and holds that position to this time.

Jan and Allen May were appointed joint Operations Managers during 2007 and are proud to have been entrusted with this appointment.

In an earlier life Jan was heavily involved with the Bellarine Railway in Queenscliff, which included serving on the Board and as a qualified guard and signalman. She was also a member of Red Cross for 20 years.

Bob Osborne

Bob Osborne has been resident in Maryborough for 47 years and is a "community service freak".

He joined the Board in 2003 when the future was not promising. He took over as Chairman and, along with Bruce Leech, conducted a concerted campaign to enable Maryborough to gain a broadcasting licence for a community radio station. This culminated in the granting of our Temporary Community Broadcasting Licence in January 2007.

Bob currently presents a sports breakfast program on Saturday morning.

Allen May

Allen's last four and a half years of employment saw him working as a Parliamentary Officer at Victoria's Parliament House.

Allen has been involved in a voluntary capacity with community radio stations for a number of years and will celebrate his 30th year in March 2010. He started with 3CR Melbourne and helped raise funds for the Southern Community Broadcasters in Moorabbin for their much-needed test transmissions. Allen then went to Voice FM in Ballaarat for 21 years and has been with Goldfields FM for nine years.

Allen also worked with Steamrail Victoria for 25 years taking on the role of "jack of all trades", covering maintenance of rolling stock and restoration of railway carriages from the 1880s and 1890s.

Whilst with Voice FM, Allen and Brian McDowell raised funds for "Kids with Cancer" in conjunction with Victoria Police. Allen also works in a supervisory role for unemployed folk and has had great success during the past two years with the scheme at Goldfields FM. Allen has a total of twenty and a half years experience in raising funds, 18 years at Voice FM and the past two and a half years here at Goldfields FM.

He has pleasure in presenting music for all members of the community but specializes in nostalgia for our older folk through to music for our younger generation.

On opening day Allen and Bob Osborne were proud to be the first two presenters to officially open the station. Our first song officially played on air was "This will be the start of something big."

Allen was approached to manage the station and has enjoyed the challenge. He is looking forward to many more years of "active" service.

Bruce Leech

Bruce has been involved with Goldfields FM for a number of years. His work ranges from re-modelling the building so that it would suit the station to designing and installing the electronic equipment which ranges from the presenters' microphones to the transmitter at the top of the tower.

Greg Waters

Greg has been involved with music all his life. He learned to sing when he joined the Maryborough Boys' Choir back in 1937. He has been involved in dance bands and entertaining for thirty years, starting as a fill-in drummer with the Max Finch Band in 1948, then he joined the Gold Star Dance Band as the singer / compere.

With his love of country music he then formed a country music dance band called Country Sound. They played at dances and festivals until sickness stopped him in his tracks. He still entertains and plays at rest homes and hospitals as well as club nights and hotels. He raises funds for Goldfields FM with Rita Mullins and Leo Harnetty.

He joined Goldfields FM in January 2007 on its opening day and became a presenter on Goldfields FM. Greg presents two hours of country music four days a week and he will play any country requests.

Scott Zampatti

Scott started in community radio in Wagga Wagga in 1999 at Life FM where he hosted a number of different programs like the 80s music mix and the Top 20 Countdown. His involvement with Life FM lasted one year.

Scott's current involvement in community radio is at Goldfields FM in Maryborough, which started broadcasting in February 2007. He started by hosting two shows: Friday Night Gold and Saturday Extra. In September 2007 his work commitments forced him to abandon one show.

He is currently hosting one show, Saturday Extra, which airs from 4 pm - 6 pm on Saturday afternoons.

Toby Bainbridge

Toby joined the Board at the Annual General Meeting in 2008. He is also a sponsor of Goldfields FM, and presents Toby's Computer Show on Saturday mornings.

Toby's career in computing almost died at the starting gate: he was so frustrated by the Fortran programming course which he did at RMIT in 1963 that he swore that he would never, ever, have anything to do with computers for the rest of his life.

Fortunately he relented and started work as a trainee programmer in January 1974 and enjoyed it so much that he developed a passion for helping other people come to see computers in a vastly different light. It is for this reason that his theme song for Toby's Computer Show on Saturday mornings is The Marvellous Toy. His teaching career started in 1991 at Ringwood SkillShare (SkillShare has since been disbanded by the federal government) and continues to this day with his clients.