Life & Honorary Members

Criteria for Life Membership:

Life membership may be awarded by the executive committee to a Full Member in recognition of conspicuous contribution to, and eminence in, the field of Stomal Therapy Nursing.

Procedure for nominating Life Members: Nominations to be sent to the National Executive using the usual membership form accompanied by a submission detailing the reasons for nomination. Life Members retain all rights and responsibilities of a Full Member as stated in 16.5 of the Constitution.

N.B. Although this honour is sometimes received as a surprise, the Executive recommends that the member be approached to see if they want to accept this honour.

Life Members

Meryl Barrett, VIC

Accepted 1985

Elinor (Elle) Kyte, VIC

Accepted 1985

Mary Jo Kroeber A.M. 2004, WA

Accepted 1988

Lena Stillman, QLD

Accepted 1993

Heather Hill A.M., NSW

Accepted 1996

Sr Mary Kelly O.A.M. 2011, WA

Accepted 1997

Patricia Blackley, SA

Accepted 1998

Helen Simcock, WA

Accepted 1999

Zoe Johns, TAS

Accepted 2000

Cynthia Smyth, QLD

Accepted 2006

Dr Julia Thompson, NSW

Accepted 2007

Susan Dunne, NSW

Accepted 2011

Lorrie Gray, WA

Accepted 2012

Brenda Sando, QLD

Accepted 2012

Merle Boeree, SA

Accepted 2013

Elizabeth English, SA

Accepted 2015

Dr Keryln Carville, WA

Accepted 2015

Pat Walls, QLD

Accepted 2015

Rosalind Probert, QLD

Accepted 2017

Lesley Everingham, NSW

Accepted 2017

Elaine Lambie, QLD

Accepted 2017

William (Bill) Tyrrell, NSW

Accepted 2019

Carol Stott, NSW

Accepted 2019

Sue Delanty, TAS

Accepted 2021

Helen Nodrum, VIC

Accepted 2021

Wendy Sansom, VIC

Accepted 2022

Honorary Members

Criteria for Honorary Membership:

Honorary Membership may be awarded by the AASTN Executive Committee to a person who has rendered valuable services to the Association or in recognition of conspicuous contribution to Stomal Therapy Nursing.

Procedure for nominating an Honorary Member: Nominations to be sent to the AASTN National Executive using usual membership form accompanied by a submission detailing the reasons for nomination. Honorary Members do not pay annual subscriptions. The AASTN does not have any limit on how many Honorary Members there are in the Association.

Current Honorary Members

      • Dr. A D Campbell QLD Accepted 1992
      • Prof. Lesley Bokey NSW Accepted 1996

Robyn Simcock WA

Accepted 2022

Previous Honorary Members

    • Dr. Fred Leditsche (resigned 1999) QLD Accepted 1990
    • Prof. Sir E S R Hughes (deceased 1998) VIC Accepted 1977
    • Mr. David Failes (deceased 2014) NSW Accepted 1989
    • Dr. Neville Davies QLD Accepted 1981
    • Mr. Mark Killingback NSW Accepted 1989

Dr John Herron (AO) QLD

Accepted 1990

Dr Russell Stitz QLD

Accepted 1999