{"id":20037,"date":"2019-02-25T08:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=20037"},"modified":"2019-02-25T08:56:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T21:56:36","slug":"jim-birch-awarded-for-contribution-to-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2019\/02\/25\/jim-birch-awarded-for-contribution-to-tennis","title":{"rendered":"Jim Birch awarded for contribution to tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Birch joined Waverley Tennis in its second year of operation and has served as a member of the Waverley Tennis Committee of Management (COM) for almost 40 years, and the last 25 years as Association Secretary. Jim is also a Life Member of Waverley Tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Jim has served in a number of roles over a period of time and has provided meritorious service to the Association since 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Up until his retirement in mid-2018, Jim was involved as an Association Secretary since 1993 in all Waverley Tennis Committees and Sub-Committees. Jim has played an important role in the shaping and development of Waverley Tennis as it is known today.<\/p>\n<p>Jim has represented Waverley Tennis at all Tennis Victoria Metropolitan Associations Forums and was the substitute delegate to pass Tennis Victoria Council Meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Jim diligently collated information from all the Waverley Tennis Annual Reports, dating back from 1993 right through 2017 in order to publish a meaningful and informative document on each year\u2019s activities at Waverley Tennis.<\/p>\n<p>With a strong working relationship\/involvement at club level (Bennettswood Tennis Club), Jim has brought sound knowledge in administrative procedures and practices that complemented his role as the principle Administrative Officer for Waverley Tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Jim has also served as acting treasurer, delegate\/substitute delegate to the former Tennis Victoria Council and ANZ Tennis Hot Shots Match Play Coordinator for Monash LGA Region.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Jim and thank you for your contribution to Tennis in Victoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Jim Birch who was recently presented with a Highly Commended Service award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":20039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}