With 84 active members, the Noosa Seniors Table Tennis Club is vibrant in numbers and skills, with memorable stories and life histories often discussed over post-game coffees at the Noosa Leisure Centre on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
This week, a long-termer, Robert Hill, turned 90, on Friday, being the second member to reach that milestone.
Robert and his wife, Margaret, who have been married since 1964, were touched by the celebration and sentiments of fellow players.
There were also 10 members present at the celebration that have crossed the 80 threshold, so now named the ‘dirty dozen’ of skill merchants that regularly use their vast experience to defeat the ‘younger’ ones.
As for Robert, he has many stories from an interesting life. When he was only 23, in 1957, he volunteered to join the Australian Antarctic Division and was chosen to spend a year on Macquarie Island assisting with scientific research tasks.
