President Elizabeth introduced our speaker Alex Birnie outlining how she had known Alex and her family since Alex was a small child and later met again through the rotary radio show.
Alex spoke about how having cerebral palsy has made her very determined and how that determination resulted in her receiving speeding fines at school for going too fast.
She has many passions one being singing that has turned from a fun hobby to her being in a number of choirs. Alex does classical signing and also appeared on an episode of the TV series Sea Change. She does not have a passion for sport and definitely is not a fan of wheelchair rugby.
After she finished high school she completed studies in public relations and music. This led to a role in community radio in admin roles. In 2019 she joined the radio station 3WBC and presents on Sundays and also a Friday morning session.
Alex's love a music revolves around country music and she regularly attends festivals across Australia.
She has performed with the Indies Voices choir and showed a video of a performance at Hamer Hall. She also has performed at the St Kilda Town Hall with a music video group.
Ales is now studying speech pathology at university and would like to work in schools or in rehab in hospitals.
Amongst all these activities Alex has am aim to record an album and learn the trumpet.
She concluded her presentation by doing what has not been done very often at the Club, signing a song called Angel.
What a great thrill it was to hear about Alex's life journey.