Lyall Thurston |
Lyall Thurston, QSO JP
Trustee
Well-known and respected community leader, Lyall Thurston, is no stranger to most people in the Rotorua District.
The inaugural and current chairman of the Rotorua Museum Centennial Trust, he has been instrumental in raising almost $22 million to complete the Rotorua Bath House Museum – Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa – to its original 1906 design. An internationally respected public health lobbyist and advocate, Lyall is a Life Member of CCS Disability Action (formerly known as NZCCS) and a past national president of that organisation. Currently deputy chairman of Lakes District Health Board, he chairs the community and public health committee and the disability support advisory committee. A former member of the Teacher Registration Board, chairman of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Special Education, member of the National Board of Workbridge and the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Health and Disability, and a former Rotorua District Councillor, Lyall has served as a school trustee since the advent of Tomorrow’s Schools in 1989. He was awarded the Companion of the Queen’s Service Order (QSO) for community service in 1998 and is a Justice of the Peace.
Lyall and his wife, Gabrielle, have three sons.
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