THEY’RE a pretty young social bowls club but the good sports who play at Tamworth City Bowling Club have honoured their oldest player with their first ever life award.
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The Tamworth City Social Bowlers Club has elevated Nevell McDonald to the prestigious wall of awards at the club, the first to be conferred with the prestigious life membership.
McDonald turned 100 on June 3 and social bowlers and the serious sports turned out to pay tribute to him.
The now social bowler, who still plays weekly, first joined the club in 1957 although he had a lapse in playing for a few years until he took it up again a few years ago.
But those historic milestone achievements have helped elevate him to the honour board and members of the parent bowling club were there to mark the milestone too, including four of the seven current life members.
Club president Rob Key and three other life members from the main club were there on the day to pay tribute to McDonald, including Brian Jamieson, Keith Stevenson and Bruce Quick.
Three other life members, the venerable former Test spinner and bowls champ John Gleeson, Bruce Henry, and Amy Garment couldn’t make it.
A framed photograph of McDonald and an inscribed birthday clock now hang on the honour wall.
The club is preparing for another celebratory milestone in November when Garment turns 100.
The club proper is mounting a special historical display as part of preparations for the club’s centenary in 2019.
