From the moment she started working as a secretary/sign writer, Cheryl has been an achiever in a wide range of jobs and the signs now point to her continuing that success in her latest venture with our Club. The second-youngest of eight siblings, Cheryl learnt from an early age that knuckling down to the task is absolutely necessary for success and her attitude in that regard has not changed to this very day. Cheryl was born in the far north Queensland town of Innisfail, reputed to have the second-highest rainfall in Australia after Tully, which lies 53kms further south. Her early days were awash with fun as she and her three sisters and four brothers kicked around town and attended the East Innisfail State Primary School. Cheryl rounded off her education at Charters Towers before returning to Innisfail to take on her first job. She later moved to Cairns where she married a local lad, John, in 1975 and the pair instantly took off in a newly acquired caravan to begin a three-year working holiday. They stuck to the capital cities where work was guaranteed, Cheryl gaining employment as a personal assistant for a boss at Lloyds of London in Melbourne and then as secretary to the manager of TAA in Sydney. She and John then decided to move to Perth in 1984 and set up a fruit and veg business in Lynn Street, Trigg. Then followed a stint at their ice cream parlour, a venture Cheryl describes as “geographically crazy” as she had to drop her kids off to school where they lived in Karrinyup and then drive all the way to Midland to open up shop. Cheryl remarried (to Jim) and for a while worked as a retail assistant at the prestigious John Walker chocolatier shop in the Karrinyup shopping centre. Then followed a stint as the manager of Rellim
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