After running with the Kembla Joggers in their first few years of existence my wife, Gloria, and I started to enter fun runs. As most fun run entrants had a t-shirt or singlet with a logo on it, I decided to design something for our running gear.

With three young boys ranging in age from 3 to 8 years, we had accumulated a range of Dr Suess children's books, one of these books titled 'One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish'. After reading these books on many occasions, there was one character that seemed to illustrate the virtues of the Mt Kembla circuit. This was the sweating dog or fox like character with the text under the illustration saying, 'Some run for fun in the hot hot sun'.

The original silk-screen was made by tracing this character onto the silk and adding the text 'RUN 4 FUN' above the illustration. The silk was then hand painted using some of our kitchen pale green plastic wall paint, leaving the image required. The words 'MT KEMBLA' were added under the illustration using a second screen. The results can be seen in some of the very early group photographs. These first shirts were yellow using black text.

The second generation logo was prepared in the Drawing Office at BHP where Bill Williamson and I worked. The same Dr Suess character was used, only this time the artwork had the lettering 'KEMBLA' above and 'JOGGERS' below. I cannot remember who prepared the silk-screen from the drafting film (Bill Roberts we think – Ed). The original 'RUN 4 FUN' screen was given to David and Anna Schroder and it is unknown if it still exists.

Slight modifications were made to the second logo during the late 80's which already had taken on the present club colours, red, white and navy. A new font was used for the text and it was also emboldened. A double bar was used in between the words 'KEMBLA' and 'JOGGERS' following the arc of the circle made by the text. The logo was basically the same except more modern and prominent. There was some debate in the early 90's about whether or not a new logo, but still using the Dr Suess character, should be designed. A few designs were even presented to a committee meeting for consideration. In the end it was decided to keep the traditional logo, a distinctive logo which makes a Kembla Jogger instantly recognisable.