A personal best at 68
WHEN YOU’RE made a Life Member of the NUJ you might be expected to celebrate with a meal and a drink, not go out and run half-a-marathon in pouring rain.
But that’s what Glasgow’s Bob Paterson did when he got the certificate after 42 years of loyal membership.
In fact, in the Great Scottish Run, the 68-year-old broke his personal best by more than four minutes and raised £650 for a cancer charity.
Bob Paterson was a member of the first NUJ chapel in D C Thomson’s Glasgow office, in the 1960s, when he was lead football writer for the Sunday Post, travelling the world with Scotland, Rangers and Celtic and picking up awards for his eyewitness account of the Ibrox disaster of 1971.
He moved to London to become sports editor at the BBC’s new CEEFAX service in London, where he was also Father of the NUJ Chapel.