{"id":10203,"date":"2023-06-27T12:35:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T02:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathclub.com.au\/a-drink-with-jeff-georgina-barry-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T02:55:56","slug":"a-drink-with-jeff-liz-stonestreet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathclub.com.au\/a-drink-with-jeff-liz-stonestreet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Drink with Jeff | Liz Stonestreet"},"content":{"rendered":"
In our \u2018A Drink with Jeff\u201d series, Campbelltown Catholic Club community liaison Jeff McGill has been catching up with a diverse selection of club identities. <\/em><\/p>\n Liz Stonestreet was once a stranger in Campbelltown who didn\u2019t know a soul. Hard to believe, given she is now such a beloved part of our community \u2014 from sporting and social groups to charities and service organisations.<\/p>\n The Catho, she admits, was her doorway through.<\/p>\n One night in 1979 she remembers particularly well. \u201cWe\u2019d just moved to Leumeah and [husband] Ken told me he was popping down to Campbelltown Catholic Club to hear Bernie Purcell, a South Sydney Rabbitohs legend, speak. Later, the phone rang. Ken wanted me to catch a taxi; he was with a bunch of club members and wanted me to meet them all. So, I caught the taxi\u2026and what a night. Before we\u2019d left to return home Ken had been appointed Junior Vice President of the Collegians Rugby League Club, and I was the new Secretary of the Ladies Auxiliary.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the magic of The Catho \u2014 it helped me connect with people. You got know this person, and then this person knew that person, and so on. That\u2019s the same reason why I love Campbelltown, too. I\u2019m 70 now, and wouldn\u2019t want to live anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n Liz agreed to be my latest \u201cDrink With Jeff\u201d interview.<\/p>\n We met at Cafe Sage and grabbed our drinks \u2013 a long black for Liz, and a hot chocolate for me \u2014 and we found a less-busy corner of Harvest bistro. Our chat began with Liz\u2019s recent trip to the United States and Britain, part of which was spent in her bonnie homeland of Scotland. Liz Cameron was born in Edinburgh in 1952.<\/p>\n Did she speak with thick Scottish brogue as a child?<\/p>\n \u201cOch, aye,\u201d Liz laughed, using the old cliche.<\/p>\n But it is hard to detect any accent at all today. \u201cYou lose it pretty quickly when you go to high school in Australia,\u201d she smiled. Liz arrived in Sydney as a teenage immigrant in 1965.<\/p>\n Was it to get away from the wet Scottish weather?<\/p>\n No, better opportunities she said. \u201cMy dad always wanted to come to Australia, but my mother wouldn\u2019t be a part of it. Until one night she suddenly said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n