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John Varga
Courtesy of Tim Boggan At an historic 1937 meeting in Kokomo, a number of players and officials forever important to Indiana table tennis gathered together to reorganize the State Association and to elect South Bend’s W. B. Hester (the W. stood for Weldon) as their President. A selected Who’s Who at this meeting would include,…
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Tybie Thall Sommer
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Leah Thall’s younger, tennis-playing sister, 17-year-old Thelma “Tybie” Thall, made her first recorded t.t. tournament appearance at Cincinnati’s Feb. 8, 1942 Jewish Center Midwest Closed. She was a straight-A student and “the first girl in the history of [Columbus, Ohio’s] East High to win a varsity letter in the sport [of…
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Mildred Shahian
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Mildred Shahian, whose life was devoted to table tennis–both as a World and National Champion, and as the Manager for 40 years of Chicago’s well-known Net and Paddle Club–died of cardiac arrest, April Fools Day, 1992. Her close friend of 30 years, Jim Lazarus, agonized over her, comforted her, in her…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States