The Club Person of the Year award is named the Marge Burke Trophy after one of The Waratahs long-time dedicated supporters and Life Members. Marge was wife of one of our internationals, Cyril Burke, and had four sons (Bruce, Ross, Paul and Colin) play for the club.

Marge passed away in 2015 - the club’s 75th anniversary - at the age of 89. The trophy was inaugurated in 1969 and was presented for the 50th time in 2019.

1960s:

1969 Bill Adam

1970s:

1970 Larry Robson, 1971 Peter Masters, 1972 Ron Burns, 1973 Vic Bell, 1974 Bill Baker, 1975 Ron Nightingale, 1976 Kevin Smith, 1977 Keith Powell, 1978 Ray Piefke, 1979 Jim Nickerson.

1980s:

1980 Roger Bryan, 1981 Ron Howell, 1982 Paul Murphy OAM, 1983 Robert Bell, 1984 Bryan Tolhurst, 1985 Melva Masters, 1986 Tom Chidgey, 1987 Denis Hurst, 1988 Bill Chidgey, 1989 David Power.

1990s:

1990 Ken Grieve, 1991 Keith Powell, 1992 Kevin Burns, 1993 Darren Forbes, 1994 Mark Gratton, 1995 Col Minter, 1996 Keith Roddom, 1997 Roger Bryan, 1998 Garry Harrison, 1999 Matthew Chidgey.

2000s:

2000 Denis Hurst, 2001 Gary Foster , 2002 Tim Chidgey, 2003 Robert Holmes, 2004 Belinda Peden, 2005 Darrel Date, 2006 Tom Chidgey, 2007 Kaylene Chidgey, 2008 Michael Tolhurst, 2009 Claudia Tolhurst.

2010s:

2010 Tim Date, 2011 Bill Ormandy, 2012 Jim Heins, 2013 Lynn & Denis Hurst, 2014 Todd McDean, 2015 Holly Wilson, 2016 John Kearney, 2017 Joel Ford, 2018 Annika Jamieson, 2019 Keith Powell.

2020s:

2020 Joel Ford, 2021 Chris Grieve, 2022 No Award, 2023 Keith Powell.