{"id":6724,"date":"2026-06-06T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6724"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:04:13","slug":"happy-birthday-roger-booker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/happy-birthday-roger-booker\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Roger Booker!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"test_single_col\"><strong>June 2026<\/strong>\n\n<h2>Roger Booker celebrates his 80th birthday<\/h2>\n\n<p>Henley Squash Club&#8217;s Honorary President, Roger Booker, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. Current chairman, Steve Dance, and former chairman, Duncan Nightingale, were honoured to join friends, family and colleagues for a boat trip on the Thames.<\/p>\n\n<p>Roger was Chairman of Henley Squash Club for many years and continues to be the <b><i>eminence grise<\/i><\/b>, regularly attending committee meetings and still donating all the squash balls used by the teams in inter-club matches.<\/p>\n\n<p>Until quite recently Roger was a regular for the Henley teams &#8211; both in Oxfordshire and for the Vets in Berkshire. And not so long ago he was still in the prime position of our internal box league &#8211; top of division 1 month after month. He is still often to be found working out in the gym next to the courts at Henley Leisure Centre.<\/p>\n\n<p> Roger has played at the highest level &#8211; including representing England in Masters tournaments. While working in the USA in 1983-1992 he played to a good level in inter-club hardball squash.<\/p>\n\n<p>As well as being chairman at Henley, Roger has also served as Chairman of Oxfordshire Squash.<\/p>\n\n<p>Happy Birthday, Roger, from everyone at Henley Squash Club! We look forward to your continued support and guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"image_container_50pc\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rogers-80th-50pc.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Current chairman Steve Dance (left) and former chairman Duncan Nightingale (right) join Roger for his birthday celebration<\/b><\/div>\n&nbsp;\n<div class=\"line_spacer_mp\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"image_container_50pc\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Handicap-Tournament-2025-3.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Roger, respendent in England Masters T-shirt, awards the prizes at last year&#8217;s Handicap Tournament<\/b><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; height: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2026 Roger Booker celebrates his 80th birthday Henley Squash Club&#8217;s Honorary President, Roger Booker, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. Current chairman, Steve Dance, and former chairman, Duncan Nightingale, were honoured to join friends, family and colleagues for a boat trip on the Thames. Roger was Chairman of Henley Squash Club for many years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6724"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6730,"href":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions\/6730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}