Fergie’s Print and Mail managing director, John Ferguson has been presented with an Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the community and sailing.

Ferguson has been working at Fergie’s Print and Mail for 50 years, and has been managing director for 41 of those 50 years. The order recipient says being awarded an OAM is a humbling experience.

“I am pleased and glad to get it. I competed in five Olympics and spent a lot of my life both as a competitor, coach and administrator of the sport.

“Having said that you do not expect a reward. The nicest thing about it is that a number people need to nominate you for an Order of Australia. I am still trying to find out who they are,” he says.

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Ferguson says he received the notification of winning the award very late, “I think it was in the mailbox when I came back from holidays on the January 3.”

He competed in the Olympic yachting team during the 1968, 1976 and 1980 games and was team manager in 1984 and 1988.

Ferguson’s service includes Royal Queensland yacht squadron as commodore between 1992-1994; president of the Rotary Club of Fortitude Valley between 1982 and 1983;  past commodore of the Yachting Rotarians and Paul Harris Fellowship recipient in 1998.

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