Barbara and Betty – Our Pillars of Social Bowls
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omeone must be doing something right when people turn up out of the blue from other clubs to play social bowls at Sorrento. That members of the bowling fraternity have walked through the doors of our Club from South Perth, Warwick and North Beach, to name just a few, to enjoy our social bowls experience is heartwarming. Likewise, bowlers from interstate and overseas have been known to rock up because the word has got out that Sorrento has social bowls available on Fridays and Sundays. Very few other clubs do. But it doesn’t happen automatically. Without a solid core of volunteers to run our social bowls on those days the opportunity to enjoy a game of bowls without stress would be lost to dozens of people, mostly in their older years. The very first article I wrote for Neville Odell to put in this magazine when I joined the Club nearly 15 years ago was a piece on Chris Tibbits and Barbara Spence, with an accompanying photo, at work running the Club’s Friday social bowls, with another photo of Stan McCullagh and Betty Stern hard at work on a Sunday afternoon. Stan has passed away and Chris relocated to another lucky club south of the city but, amazingly, Barbara and Betty are still at it. Jennifer Page now shares organising Friday’s social bowls with the evergreen Barbara who has been doing the job for a staggering 20
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