Committee
Mount Torrens Soldiers' Memorial Hall Incorporated
Membership
Did you know you can apply to become a member of the Mount Torrens Soldiers' Memorial Hall Incorporated?
Membership fees are just $5 per year.
Benefits of membership include:
keep up to date with happenings at the hall and of the Mount Torrens Soldiers' Memorial Hall Incorporated Association through communications from the Committee of Management;
voting rights at the Annual Meeting (note you must be a member by the 31st December of the year prior to the Annual Meeting to be eligible to vote);
can be voted onto the Committee of Management to help other community volunteers manage and make decisions with regard to the operations, maintenance and improvements of the hall and property.
The objects of the Association
as per original Constitution 1945
a. To provide a Memorial in memory of the residents of the township and district of Mount Torrens who enlisted for, and who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great Wars, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, and to provide an opportunity and means of entertainment, amusements, public meetings, educational and other exhibitions, physical recreation, and to promote and encourage all such ends and purposes.
b. To acquire: From the Trustees of the Mount Torrens Soldiers' Memorial Institute Hall, an estate in fee simple in the whole of the land comprises in Certificate Title Register Book Volume 1235, Folio 112.
c. To acquire by gift, purchase, exchange, or otherwise any other land and hereditaments for the purposes hereafter set forth.
d. To hold the said land and hereditaments and to use and employ the same as a Memorial Hall and for entertainments, amusements, public meetings, education and other physical recreation, and incidental thereto and for the purpose of the management and maintenance of such land and hereditaments, and to preserve the same upon trust for general benefit of the residents of the township of Mount Torrens and District.
e. To layout and improve the said lands and premises and hereditaments, erect fences, buildings and other improvements, and to plant trees, shrubs, and flowers thereon, and to do all things necessary to maintain and care for the same.
f. To raise money by subscription, entrance fee, licenses, permits and otherwise for the purposes aforesaid.
Committee of Management
The 2023-24 Committee of Management
of the Mount Torrens Soldiers' Memorial Hall Incorporated are:
Chairperson: M.Kowald
Secretary: K.Wilhelm
Treasurer: C.Hunt
Committee Members: B.Kowald, K.Bennett, P.Wilhelm, D.Pauley, D.Bartsch, K.Kowald, M.Green, J.Erwin, P.Powell
Life Members
In recognition of their outstanding service
2023 Kevin and Betty Kowald
In recognition of their many years of dedicated service.
2022 Mrs Bernice Kowald
Pre September 1962 Elected Caretaker of the hall and also responsible for Hall Bookings
1963 Elected Member of the Committee of Management
2001 Retires from Official Duties
1982 Mr R.B. Hicks
1935 Elected to the Committee
1938 Elected to Chairman of the Committee
1945 Elected Chairman on the Committee on Incorporation until 1965, when he became Secretary (taking over this role from his Sister Mrs Grace Klose who retired in 1965 having served 20 years in the role)
August 1945
Members of the retiring Trust were made life members
Mr Bruno Hammer
Mr. T.J. Hannam
Mr. W.W. Sumner
Mr. E.P. Mullins
Mr. E.T. Sumner
Mr. O.B Kerber
along with the retiring Secretary
Mr. T.L. Hammer
Appreciation
The Mount Torrens Soldiers' Memorial Hall Committee and the
Mount Torrens Community Gratefully Appreciate
Dorothy (Dot) Maloney for Outstanding Generosity
Kym Clark for Dedicated Service and Outstanding Generosity