RUTH Brown, more affectionately known as Tibby, enjoyed a time back in history at Saturday's Teebar Sports and Show.

The 96-year-old has fond memories of her association with the area.

Sitting watching the Powerpoint presentation put together for the hall's 100th year celebration, Mrs Brown was excited to see photographs of concerts she had organised.

Reminiscing Mrs Brown said in the 1950s she organised a group for teenagers and those under 25 who hadn't married.

"We played games and had activities on the lawn,” she said.

Mrs Brown, who had a love of the arts, trained them to sing and dance.

"Our concerts included girls doing the can can dance I had trained them to do, various comedy sketches by both the girls and boys and artists from Maryborough.

"The hall was packed and they were standing three deep in the back.”

But after five yearly concerts Mrs Brown thought she would change track and asked her husband Aubrey if they could construct a tennis court on their Teebar property.

"I then ran tennis tournaments with funds going to the cerebral palsy association,” she said.

Out of the blue in the late 60s Mrs Brown received communication from the Education Department to consider going back to teaching.

"They felt after 25 years I still had the compassion and the capacity to return to the profession,” she said.

"I thought I would get a one-teacher school somewhere. But they said no and said I would be teaching high school.”

Mrs Brown said she got her two favourite subjects, History and English.

So after 25 years away from teaching she started at Biggenden Secondary Department on February 1, 1968 for five years.

After her retirement Mrs Brown became heavily involved with the Maryborough Players, putting on three-act plays from 1984-2002.

She wrote comedy sketches for dinner nights held at William House.

There were more humorous sketches with her Probus Club involvement.

Mrs Brown said they won four times competing at Gympie.

"We were the only club to do so,” she said.

Her talents also included organising a Queensland Eisteddfod.

"There were 1000 competitors but for the Queensland Centenary Eisteddfod it was huge as there were 3000,” she

said.

"It was so big we required four extra adjudicators and two halls.”

Due to losing the use of her legs, Mrs Brown now lives in Fairhaven at Maryborough.

"Much of my time is spent reading but I teach and play mahjong as well as bridge,” she said.