What a great idea! Aussies plan photo show of national meets

The late Jock Jocoy was pictured at 1984 Eugene nationals in NMN. He was M55 that year.

The late Jock Jocoy was pictured at 1984 Eugene nationals in NMN. He was M55 that year.

The folks at Australian Masters Athletics are the picture of creativity. They are planning a “Nostalgia Photo Display” at 2015 outdoor masters nationals in Sydney. “So far we have received Nationals photos from 1974, 77, 79, 80, 84, 86 to 92, 94 & 99, so we are still after some from the missing years,” says a posting. “Please have a look through your photo albums over Christmas and send them through to our photo collator Ron Wills as jpeg files to ron.wills39@gmail.com. Please identify the event, date the photo was taken, and as many persons as they can.” Wouldn’t it be cool to collect similar shots [from private collections] for USATF masters nationals? These digital images also could be posted on mastershistory.org — the USATF-subsidized site. But why stop at Australia and America. Every affiliate should focus on such a project. WMA, get behind this!

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December 29, 2014

2 Responses

  1. Tom Phillips - December 29, 2014

    What a great idea. I don’t hold out any hope that WMA will follow this lead – only seem interested in shots of men in suits, committee meetings, etc.

  2. Russ Dickenson - December 29, 2014

    Tom, I’m waiting 20 years until I send in the wonderful shots you took at Sacramento

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