What a great idea! Aussies plan photo show of national meets
“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!
The folks at Australian Masters Athletics are the picture of creativity. They are planning a
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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.
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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