CONTENTS
Preface. Sowing the seeds p1. The seventies: a grand opening and building a reputation p9. The grand opening p11. Official guests p13. The glorious eighties p21. The nineties: an extension and regulation p41. Opening of the new extension p48. A new millennium and a new building p58. Auxiliary p72. Board / Committee 1964-2008 p73. Businesses p74. Individuals p75. Donations in memory of p80. Estate bequests p80. Local government p81. Schools and TAFE Colleges p81. Opportunity Shop staff p82. Clubs / Organisations p83. Residents 1971-2008 p85. Staff p88.

ILLUSTRATIONS
Dorothy Impey (front cover). Monster raffle presentation p6. Mr K. Higginbotham of Coburg Lions Club presents Mr W. Crane with a cheque p6. The President, Mr W. Crane, Secretary, Mrs D.C. Impey and Treasurer, Mr T. Congleton, check reports at the Society’s Second Annual Meeting p7. Dorothy Impey turning the soil to begin the building of the Home on Thursday, 6 August, 1970 using a golden spade p9. Mrs L. Simmons, Mrs M. Nicholls, Mrs E. Coleman and Mrs E. Walker p10. Dorothy Impey Home p12. Trying out the new wheelchair, the Home’s most senior resident, Mrs Joan McCrae, age 87, watched by Mrs Jean Atkin, Mrs Heather Gray and Mrs Olive Dunn p17. Mrs N. Davies, Dorothy Impey Ladies Auxiliary and Mrs Farrell, Noah’s Ark Toy Library, receive cheques from Renaissance JC’s Prisoners at Pentridge p19. Mr Ron Smith and Mr Colin Sparks of Coburg Rotary Club p20. Dorothy Impey Home’s administrator, Mrs Heather Gray, and the committee’s honorary secretary, Mrs Norma Jones, outside the opportunity shop p24. In front of the new bus: Coburg Rotary community services chairman, Mr Geoff Hilliard, Dorothy Impey secretary, Mrs Heather Gray, bus driver, Mr Jack Jones, and Rotary president, Mr Colin Sparks p24. Mrs Heather Gray presented a commemorative plaque, it was received by Coburg mayor Cr Alan Davis, behind are Mary Broder, 90, and Irene Priest, 84 p25. Resident Fran Morrow and mayoress, Mrs Beryl Plumridge p26. Mrs Rose Marx, a day visitor to the Home, and Sir Brian Murray, Governor of Victoria p26. Coburg Technical School students Frank Nicolo, John Pezos (in the kennel) and Frank Serratore, with Dorothy Impey Home resident Louise McMahon, present Hundi with his new home p28. Heather Gray receiving a $10,000 cheque from the mayor of Coburg, Cr Athol Attwater p28. Ms Jillian Oliver and director of the Melbourne College of Textiles, Mr Graeme Day, accepts a tree, made from ribbons and paper by the women from the Dorothy Impey Home for the Aged p29. Mr W.J. Baulch p29. Administrator, Heather Gray, with Coburg mayor, Gordon Perlstein and a 20,000 yen note p31. Pascoe Vale Rotary Club president, Mr Bob Constable, and Coburg Rotary Club president, Mr Alex Shaw, present the keys to the van to Dorothy Impey Home administrator, Mrs Heather Gray p32. Mrs Mary Taylor celebrating her ninetieth birthday with her son Stan, daughter Betty, Mrs Heather Gray and mayoress Mrs Margaret Perlstein p32. Heather Gray receives the award for community service from Pascoe Vale Rotary Club president, Mr John Lawless p33. Three of Kodak’s Doxa runners, Allan Owen, Noel Wood and Peter Laget, eat a plateful of pasta; Ivy Foster, Mary Taylor and Vi Sullivan from Dorothy Impey Home give them a hand p34. Kodak’s runners in training: Jim Horman, Lou Ferran, Allan Owen, David Palmer, Peter Leget, Russell Mathieson, Ross Maunder, Noel Wood, Ted Groenwagen and Mark McKeon p34. Getting ready in the gym at Kodak’s Coburg operations for the 1988 Doxa charity fun run are Leanne McCurdy, Heather Gray and the managing director of Kodak, Mr Fred Woods p35. Heather Gray gathers tomatoes and carrots to whip up Mrs Hazel Hawke’s tasty soup p37. Mr Harold Paynting with one of his vintage cars p39. The mayor of Coburg, Cr Pauline Taylor, ‘turning the sod’ for the extension of the home p42. Mr John Sullivan, Melbourne Legacy, takes his turn with the shovel p42. Mrs Heather Gray, watched by Mr Peter Plumridge and Mr Jack Dihm, turns the sod p42. Hon. Peter Staples opens extension p48. Plaque for the Heather Gray OAM Wing of the Home p48. Committee of Management 1992: Herb Rogers, Mal Hoffman, Norma Jones, Peter Plumridge, Eric Nicholas, Dulcie Dean, Alec Manuell, Athol Attwater, June Ravaillion, Alec Bay, Heather Gray, Mary Forrest, Leonie Comport and Leah Bay p49. Guests at the opening of the extension p49. Staff with their graduation certificates: Mathew Gray, June Ravaillion, Beverley Bryant, Eric Gray, Heather Gray, Susan Milburn, Cheryl Zayec, Patsy Tindall, Tomris Hussein, Ruth Ragell, Yvonne Hunter, Shirley Dunlop, Susan Jones, Jayne Sewell, Katia Morrone, Samantha Rice p51. Nell Sterry and Mick McGuane p51. Socks (cat) p52. Hundi (dog) p55. Fred Davis and Nell Pearson p56. ‘Arthur’ p59. Heather’s 60th birthday party (pamphlet) p62. Dance for Dorothy, Coburg Town Hall (pamphlet) p63. Pot of gold coins p64. Judith Lake p66. Presentation of $200,000 cheque: donation by Strathmore Branch of the Bendigo Bank, towards new building p67. Dulcie Dean p68. Catholic Archbishop Dennis Hart, Father Paul Connell (St Oliver Plunkett), Rev Dennis Webster (Holy Trinity), Cath Hannan, long-time friend of Dorothy Impey p69. Alice O’Brien p70. Dorothy Impey Home: old and new p71. Dorothy Impey; Dorothy Impey Home: old and new (inside back cover).