Celebrating the naming of Alan Corrigan Reserve, from left, Mr Corrigan’s daughter Lois Faulkner, Rotary Club of Noble Park president Vin Conway, fellow Noble Park Rotarian Keith Maxwell, Greater Dandenong councillors Peter Brown and Roz Blades, and Mr Corrigan’s daughter Marjorie Halford.
By Shaun Inguanzo
KEYSBOROUGH residents can now stroll through Alan Corrigan Reserve after the patch of land between Emmerson Street and Corrigan Road was renamed on the weekend.
The reserve was previously known as Henderson Reserve, as it is also bounded by Henderson Road, and the City of Greater Dandenong Council resolved at a meeting in May last year to rename the land Alan Corrigan Reserve.
Mr Corrigan was a Dandenong and Keysborough stalwart who died in 2004 aged 93.
He is survived by daughters Lois Faulkner and Marjorie Halford, who were both present at the unveiling of the new Alan Corrigan Reserve sign on Sunday.
Mr Corrigan is most notable for his community work with Rotary, in particular with the Rotary Club of Noble Park, where he was a charter member and past president, and was named a Paul Harris Fellow.
Mr Corrigan also received a Queen’s Medal in 1975 for 25 years of service to the Keysborough Rural Fire Brigade as a volunteer firefighter.
Rotary Club of Noble Park president Keith Maxwell said Mr Corrigan was a great community contributor whose family also had deep roots within the Greater Dandenong region.
“He was born here, and he died here, and he had a house up the road that was farming land,” Mr Maxwell said.
“We produced a small booklet of documentation to give his girls (on Sunday) to do with the naming of the reserve.”
Councillors, council staff and Rotary Club members, as well as Mr Corrigan’s daughters, attended the unveiling of the new park sign on Sunday.
