The Queen
has been pleased on the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday
and the Diamond Jubilee, to make the award of The Queen's Service Medal to John
Dougal Stevenson, for services to broadcasting.
Veteran
broadcaster and ShelterBox Founding Ambassador Dougal Stevenson, has been
awarded a Queen's Service Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his
services to broadcasting.
Dougal (69) presented New Zealand's
first live network news broadcast at 7.35pm on November 3, 1969.
In a recent interview on TV and in
the Otago Daily Times Dougal said, "I got a letter from Government House
and my first thought was: 'I'm going to be deported'," he joked at his St
Leonard’s home.
"But I am really chuffed about
it. I thought it was wonderful and wondered who nominated me.
How nice of someone to think to
nominate me and how nice that the Government agreed. It's also rather fun to
get this on the weekend the Queen's 60th jubilee celebrations are
starting," he said.
As a ShelterBox Founding Ambassador
Dougal has been the face of ShelterBox New Zealand since 2006 and was
responsible for producing the ShelterBox promotional DVD’s. He has always given
freely of his time by helping with PR advice to the members of our Response
Teams during our selection and training weekends.
A ShelterBox highlight for Dougal
was the visit to ShelterBox UK in 2010 when he had the opportunity to meet with
our President, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall at a reception held
in aid of ShelterBox at Clarence House.
See also www.shelterbox.org.nz
Note that a full list of Rotarians from the six New Zealand-based district who have receoved Queens Birthday Honours will be opublished in the August Rotary Down Under magazine
