30th anniversary of SpringFest<\/a> – the relationship between the event and Ballarat Clarendon College was rekindled as students took part in a milk drive for The SoupBus.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was nice to re-establish that contact, because one of the arrangements when we took it from the school was that the school could come back again and be part of it at any time,\u201d Glass said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were able to get students up to year 10s involved… It was nice to have them there.”<\/p>\n
Glass has been the Rotary Club of Ballarat treasurer since 2018, is a past president, former club auditor and has been part of various committees including for the Ballarat Swap Meet, which he was chair of from 2013 to 2017.<\/p>\n
At Ballarat Clarendon College, Glass served on the College Council for 20 years, and was its chair from 2000 to 2004.<\/p>\n
Also in the line of supporting young people, he got involved in Scouts through his three sons, and was part of the 1st Brown Hill Scouts group from 1986 to 1991. At latter end of this period, he had the opportunity to be a leader at the Ballarat Jamboree.<\/p>\n
Glass was also a Ballarat Children\u2019s Home committee member and treasurer in the late-1970s.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve enjoyed being able to put resources in place…that enabled kids to reach their full potential, or gave them more chance to do that anyway,\u201d Glass said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nice to be dealing with people\u2019s futures, not looking at stuff in the past, which is what my accounting practice tended to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glass is a retired chartered accountant who began his career in the mid-1970s and was director of HMG Pacific Richmond from 1991 to 2020, a Crowe Horwath consultant in Ballarat from 2008 to 2017, the principal of WHK Ballarat from 2006 to 2008, and a partner of Huntley McArdle and Glass\/HMG Accounting Ballarat and Ararat from 1980 to 2006.<\/p>\n
He was on the Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute board for over 15 years, and is still on the finance committee.<\/p>\n
Other groups Glass has been involved with include the Invermay Landcare Group where he was president for eight years, the Ballarat Community Telco\/VicWest Community Telco group where he was finance subcommittee chair, and the Uniting Church of Australia, where he continues to serve as Brown Hill Uniting Church Congregation chair and a member of the local church\u2019s council. Glass has been attending Brown Hill Uniting Church since 1981.<\/p>\n
\u201cI get a lot of satisfaction out of feeling I’m doing something that\u2019s beneficial for people in the community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Glass\u2019 King\u2019s Birthday honour is not his first award, having been named a Rotary International Centurion, and a Paul Harris Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and more.<\/p>\n
But the OAM has had him \u201cflabbergasted\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nice to be recognised in some fashion, but that\u2019s not what I\u2019m looking for,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s the satisfaction of feeling that I’ve contributed that\u2019s really what drives me more than anything else.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy philosophy is that I’m happy to give, and not be there taking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having stood down from his long-time role as co-director of SpringFest, Glass is still involved in its planning and is now looking to the 2026 event as its treasurer.<\/p>\n
He said food vendors are 75 per cent booked and stallholders are at 60 per cent.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s looking strong, and the good thing is that most of those people have been stallholders before, so they must have done well enough with sales on the day to come back and pay the registration fee again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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