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#68Years

On Labor Day, 2023, my kids helped me cross off a bucket list wish, & walk across this bridge. Exhilarating! 10 miles roundtrip.

6 August 1957: consecration of the Ven. Ralph Gordon Hawkins (1911-1987), Archdeacon of Perth, Rector of St Hilda's (home of the oldest font in Australia); at St George's Cathedral, to be fifth Bishop of Bunbury. #anglican #68years Installation at (old) St Paul's later that day.

4 June 1957: installation of the Rev Arthur Ernest Weston MM (1890-1971), Rector at St Peter's Glenelg (SA), as Vicar of St Peter's Cathedral and seventh Dean of Adelaide. #anglican #68years Born and raised in Gilgandra, and began his career in the Diocese of Bathurst.

Peter David, who wrote 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 (2008) for Big Finish, died yesterday, 24 May, aged 68 following a long illness.

(via comicbookclublive.com)

#Whoniverse #DoctorWho #BigFinish #ShortTrips:TheQualityofLeadership #Writer #PeterDavid #RIP #Death #68years

6 May 1957: Bathurst and Armidale become the 17th and 18th dioceses to approve the Draft Constitution for the Church of England in Australia. #anglican #68years A key constitutional moment as once >70% of the (then 25) dioceses assented, a new constitution was "certain:"

Wishing Richard E. Grant, who played the Shalka Doctor and the Great Intelligence, a happy 68th birthday.

#Whoniverse #DoctorWho #TheDoctor #ShalkaDoctor #GreatIntelligence #RichardE.Grant #RichardEGrant #Birthday #68years

2 May 1957: the Rt Revd Ronald Edwin Richards (1908-1994) installed and enthroned in All Saints' Cathedral as fifth Bishop of Bendigo. #anglican #68years A native of Ballarat, he was the first Australian-born Bishop of Bendigo. Retired 31 October 1974.

4 April 1957: death of the Rt Revd Melville Charles James, aged 79. He held an important pioneering role as first Bishop of St Arnaud (VIC) 1926-1950. #anglican #68years A native of Launceston, James worked for 25 years in the Diocese of Ballarat before consecration. 1936 report:

2 February 1957: consecration of the Ven. Robert Evelyn Freeth (1886-1979), Archdeacon of Perth, at St George's Cathedral, to be Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Perth. #anglican #68years No.126 in the Australian episcopate. Headmaster at Guildford Grammar School (WA) 1928-1950.

#MurphDocU: #life-lessons after #68years on this planet

68 वर्षों की अटूट विश्वास और मजबूती का गर्व से उत्सव मना रहे हैं। LIC, आपके भविष्य की सुरक्षा के प्रति अपनी प्रतिबद्धता को गर्व और पेशेवर तरीके से निरंतर निभाते रहेंगे। #LIC #FoundationDay #Anniversary #HarPalAapkeSaath #68Years

68 वर्षों की अटूट विश्वास और मजबूती का गर्व से उत्सव मना रहे हैं। LIC, आपके भविष्य की सुरक्षा के प्रति अपनी प्रतिबद्धता को गर्व और पेशेवर तरीके से निरंतर निभाते रहेंगे।
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