Venture Out Tennis Club History

Updated November, 2023

In 2000 a member named Jane Worsdell completed an eighty-nine (89) page typed history of the Venture Out Tennis Club. That document was only available in hard copy, and was exceedingly difficult to find, being in the possession of a very few of our longer-term members and older non-members. In 2022, Tom Eggers, then Club vice president, read a copy and was intrigued by what it contained, and wondered how the Club had evolved since then.

Beginning in March of that year Tom began his research by scanning Ms. Worsdell's History into his computer. That document is the first of what is now five such volumes on this tab. Tom then conducted interviews with some of our older members and, finding the motherlode of source data, reading old issues of the Venture "Out-Lines" for any content touching upon the Tennis Club. That included issues archived at the Venture Out Activity Office beginning in 2000 and running to the present... twenty-two years of publications. He also accessed other websites and gathered photographs from some of our members and a number of old issues of the Venture Out "Photo Directories", publications which came out approximately every seven years until 2017. Tom digitized images of Tennis Club people and added his own photographs of members beginning in 2020.

The result is four additional History documents, also made part of this tab. All but the volume covering the 2022-23 season were completed by November of 2022, and then updated with additional photos and content from some of our veteran members. These, and the 2022-23 Volume 4, were then completed by November of 2023. The first Volume is a summary of Jane Worsdell's original work, reduced from her eighty-nine (89) pages to twenty-eight (28). The other three volumes pick up the narrative where Ms. Worsdell left off.

There are some gaps in the Histories, and certainly some errors. The author welcomes any comments, adds or deletes which those members who lived on our courts during those days would care to pass along.