CBW President Bette Addington presided over her first annual meeting at the River-side Marriott which was also the site of the Cali-fornia USBC associa-tion annual meeting. The following were elected to serve for two year terms: Joan Ro-meo, First VP; Donna Dillard, Secretary; Marian Mann, Sgt.-at-Arms; Andrea Adamson, Director #3 North and Jill Williamson, Director #4 South. CBW completed a success-ful weekend with a variety of events going on at the Prod-uct Fair; the ever popular Big Dice Roll; raffle for the sleek bowling pin signed by pro women bowlers; member-ship renewals and new members (of which six were men) and donations to our 2009-10 Phone Card for the Troops charity. Each year we draw from all new mem-bers for a tote full of CBW goodies and CAUSBC Man-

ager Larry Peppers was the winner! CBW board mem-bers donated the many gifts. Honored with Life Member-ships were: Marijane Viat (posthumously,) Eloise Cottrell, Agnes Duffy, Mary Lynly, Jackie Wyckoff, and Joellyn Rinnander. Reports told us that the Cali-fornia WBA display at the National Bowling Stadium is complete and looks beauti-ful. All were urged to take the time to view the display and history video when at the stadium. The Phone

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Card drive was a suc-cess with a donation of 265 phone cards to the troops for 2009 The annual writing awards were presented by chairmen Phyl Knoll (Golden Quill) and Agnes Duffy (Profile). Both chairmen urged members to write with one or both awards in mind. With so many good subjects for writ-ers to develop we hope

to have many more entries in 2010. Kudos to Luncheon chair-man Joan Romeo of Van Nuys who put a great event together with numerous prizes for the luncheon guests to try their luck on items donated by our gen- erous sponsors: Eldorado Hotel/Casino, Columbia, Storm, Luby Publishing, Pinspiration with Roger Dalkin and Brunswick. Look for other reports else-where in the InfoLink.

By Marian Mann Andrea Adamson was born in Scotland and raised in Palermo, Sicily. Her Father was an Italian prisoner of war when he met Andrea’s mother. They married and relocated to Italy after WW11. The family moved to St. Louis in the United States when An-drea was 10 years old. The family moved again to San Francisco three years later. She met her future husband in Junior High School. Bill be-came her sweetheart in High School and they married soon after her graduation from Bal-boa High School. They share three sons and two grand-daughters, with another grand-child on the way. Andrea started her employment career with Charter Airlines, as a flight attendant (stewardesses, in those days). She worked in a bank and in retail after her children were born, but she seemed

unfulfilled with this part of her journey. When she started working at Westlake Bowl she realized very quickly that she had found her niche. She has worked at Classic Bowl in Daly City for 17 years as a Youth Director

and at the control desk. An-drea has enjoyed serving as a Director for the San Francisco Women’s Bowling Association and SFUSBC for 23 years, retiring just this last year. Andrea’s unique talents and work experience have given her many opportunities to host fundraising activities for BVL, and Breast Cancer organiza-tions (such as the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer and Sisters Network Foundations) by organizing fun tournaments, hosting casino trips and holding raffles. Andrea writes articles and promotions about bowling and is a Charter Mem-

ber of the California Bowling Writers. We welcome her on board and know she will serve with diligence and humor.

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Newest Board Member Andrea Adamson

2009-10 CBW Board and Life Members Lynly & Duffy

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Hello CBW Members, Hope all of you are surviving the record high temperatures across our fair state. The good side of all this heat is we are supposed to see the El Nino weather pattern returning this fall which is supposed to give us a wetter season so we have that to look forward to. Before I give you an update of CBW matters that came out of our recent Annual Meeting that was held June 12 in conjunction with the CUSBC Convention down in Riverside, I want to express our deep sorrow to hear of the passing of fellow CBW member, Phil Severance on July 15. Phil served on the CBW Board as well as helped CBW out whenever she could by working many of our Product Fair tables at State Conventions. She was loved and respected by so many and a friend to all. Check out our tribute on page 3. Membership: We had fifty-five (55) members renew at State Convention and we signed up eight (8) NEW mem-bers. We would like to welcome these new members: Dot Hayes (Vallejo), Fred Groh (Sherman Oaks), Larry Peppers (Petaluma), David Rinaman (Corona), Eugene McCown (Bellflower), Ernie Santos (Santee), Ruth Beigle (Torrance) and Ferenz Schultz (San Rafael). It is exciting to get so many new male members in our organization! Welcome and congratulations to Larry Peppers, CUSBC Board member who had his name drawn to win our an-nual New Member prize at the CAUSBC State Conven-tion. Larry won a CBW tote bag filled with writing sup-plies to get him started! Media Luncheon: I just want to take this opportunity to thank Chairmen Joan Ro-meo and Jackie Wyckoff for another excellent CBW Luncheon – “The Art of Com-municating”. Our keynote speaker was Jim Sturm, President of BPAA & USBC Board Member. His presentation was very informative to those in attendance and the Q&A period at the end of his speech was just as enlightening as what he talked about. He informed us of how BPAA and USBC are working together to bring the sport of bowling to the forefront and that they currently are addressing the youth aged 16 and under. This effort will be evident in 2011 when they have plans to host a joint USBC and BPAA Convention, in conjunction with BowlExpo, bringing all entities together—proprietors, association officials, delegates and other industry partners. CBW Elections: At our Annual Meeting held on Friday night, June 12, we held our election. Thank you to Jane Bailey who served as Chairman of our Nominating

Committee for doing an outstanding job. I would like to welcome our newest CBW Director, Andrea Adamson, who was voted in as Director. Members Actively Writing: As always, CBW is searching for member’s articles and stories. Please share them with us. Now is the time to be thinking about a bowling personality you would like to write about for our Profile Award—it could be funny or it could be serious. The Golden Quill topic will be announced later in the month. While on the subject of our writing members, I would like to take this time to congratulate Jackie Wyckoff, our InfoLink Editor, for her recent election as Presi-dent of BWAA. And, congratulations to Mary Lynly who was surprised to find out she was the recipient of the Columbia 300 Humanitarian of the Year Award given for “Decades of Dedicated and Unsel-fish Contributions to the Sport of Bowling”. In closing, I hope you all are having a nice summer and a vacation was in there somewhere and don’t

forget National Bowling Week (Aug. 23-30)! Bette Addington, President

President’s Follow Through

The following article is the award winning story from the 2009 CBW Golden Quill. See the recap of the awards presentation on page 6. After nearly 80 years of structured bowling, respect for rules and association accountability, membership and league bowl-ing began a downturn around 1980. In the next ten years 1,327,483 members were lost and it was the beginning of a consistent drop in membership and it got everyone’s attention. The parent organizations, the Women’s International Bowling Congress and American Bowling Congress, tried numerous ways to find an answer to stemming the tide including hiring consultants and numerous mind altering seminars. Employ-ees who did not get with the program were gone. Everyone pretty much agreed that change was needed but no one ex-pected to have the rug jerked out from under them. In the over-zealous effort to make repairs the long-time local and state dedicated movers and shakers were seen as the problem and the parent organization felt the need to take a control they felt they had lost. The grass roots were told that the great bowling congresses were not special and were just like any other non-profit organization. It went something like this – purge the old guard, purge rules and bylaws, save money by forcing the grass roots leaders to live by the national website, give them a bowling magazine and push for consoli-dation – which soon became “merger.” Affiliated local and state bowling associations were used to being part of the legislating process so the fight to accomplish these goals was taken to the delegates at convention, in their states and in local association areas. With “change” one thing has never changed - it’s not what you do but how you do it that makes the difference. After being rejected once the WIBC, ABC and Young Ameri-can Bowling Alliance (YABA) finally merged and the heat was on to get states and locals to do the same. The ultimate goal was to get many associations to merge in one BIG association and have maybe just two for large states like California – North and South. As the new bylaws were constructed and submitted to the delegates there were many bones of contention but it was clear that rules would be watered (too cumbersome,) nominat-ing committees could literally run an association (control) and voting for top leaders would be taken out of the hands of the electorate. We were told that after the proposal was voted on there would be NO changes. Because of the uproar over some of these changes, some were made but in the end the new organization would pretty much have their way. While unrest, chaos and contention over leadership were fes-tering in the associations the new organization “United States Bowling Congress” (USBC) made it clear in their many visits that they were not concerned about membership loss. It seemed this was really what this whole thing was about in the first place. USBC had other methods of growth in mind – in-crease visibility, promote competitive bowling (the elite bowler and Pros) and boost youth bowling with a goal of retention. Field Reps were let go, communication was poor unless you want to go on bowl.com – the official USBC website. Awards were diminished in quality and as the connection with the par-ent organization became less (continued on page 3)

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CBW President Bette Addington

President Addington presented new member

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visible, bowlers and associations began to ask why they should belong to this once revered organization. A long time goal of separating the convention and tournament to different cities became a reality requiring bowling lead-ers to make two or more trips if they wanted to attend these events. States and local associations were urged to merge and some did and did not. Pressure and deadlines to commit pushed them to climb on board. Contentious leaders vied for top positions banking on the new system to put them in charge and boards played musical chairs. Detail oriented women were disen-chanted with the over-simplified leadership of men who became leaders of this new mixed group who had no idea how to even run a meeting. Organizations that merged or affiliated were ordered to divest themselves of their assets leaving only “start-up” monies. They could donate it to the charity of their choice or give it to the new organization. State dues were cut. The USBC leaders were still not concerned about membership loss which was plummet-ing. USBC now has a male leader who is also a proprietor. Following an initial board that was a mix of members from WIBC/ABC/YABA the board also has been purged and is now somewhat “hand-picked” according to member attributes – many not having served in a local or state organization environment. Enter the Bowling Proprietors Association of America (BPAA.) A move had been going on for some time to bring their proprietors on board and provide a business advantage and educational tools for them. Bowl Expo, the BPAA Convention and Trade Show, invited proprietors to come together in one place and avail themselves of these tools. BPAA also worked closely with USBC in trying to bring bowling integers together in close proximity. Some heads rolled and after much examina-tion and research ideas began to come to fruition. The USBC and the National bowling Hall of Fame and Museum will join the BPAA in Arlington, Texas in November and move into a new “International Bowling Campus” that will offer an advanced technology 20 lane

Sadly, bowling has lost one of its most prolific contributors. Phil Severance was a sportswoman. She was an avid fan of all sports and a bowler for over 45 years which led to numerous lead-ership positions in the local Napa-Sonoma Women’s Bowling Association (President for 12 years), Califor-nia Women’s Bowling Association (1st Vice President and a Mem-ber Emerita.) She was a Life Member and Hall of Fame member of both associations. Among her passions was the California Sen-ior Women’s Tournament which she chaired for a record 23 years. A creative perfectionist, Phil was an award winning editor of the California Golden Nug-get bowling newspaper to which she gave intense thought to design and quality. She bowled in 38 Championship Tournaments, and 24 Women’s International Bowling Con-gress Tournaments. She was a member of the local, state and national 600 Clubs and served as a delegate to the national conven-tion for 18 years. She was the loving wife of Robert Severance and mother of Michael Severance of Kissim-mee, FL. A respected member of the So-noma community for over 50 years, Phil was born in Portland, Oregon, went to high school in Toronto, Canada and earned a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. A teaching fellowship brought her to Mills College in Oakland where she earned a Masters Degree. Phil touched many lives in a tender way and will be missed by all. Services are private.

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The InfoLink encourages and will accept stories of 200-500 words, relating to bowling. Articles should be focused on individual accomplishments, special events, community involvement, prose, etc. Because we are focusing on special articles by our writ-ers, reporting of scores or association related events will not be accepted. Send your stories to: Jackie Wyckoff, PO Box 50213, Palo Alto, CA 94303 or email (preferred) to: JWyckoff@BowlingWriters.com We have also included for your convenience, a list of other California bowling publications who would accept stories and articles for publication which were previously submitted for publication in the California Golden Nugget:

• BOWLING WORLD NEWSPAPER ~ Donna Hazel, Editor ~ Website: www.bowlingworld.com 900 S. Winchester Blvd., Suite #11, San Jose, CA 95218 ~ E-mail: readit@bowlingworld.com Office: 408-984-0823 or 408-984-0824 ~ Fax: 408-366-0847 or 925-215-2242 • CALIFORNIA BOWLING NEWS ~ Carol Mancini, Editor ~ Website: www.californiabowlingnews.com P.O. Box 4160, Downey, CA 90240 ~ E-mail: news@californiabowlingnews.com Office: 562-807-3600 ~ Fax: 562-807-2288

Phil Severance Board Member

bowling center with different lane surfaces and different machines for research purposes and education and coaching will also be available. USBC will divest themselves of their headquar-ters when feasible and the NBHFM building in St. Louis, Missouri as well. This coming together will offer savings in pro-motion, education and service to bowling. With the tough economic climate looming, bowling leaders are finally admitting that membership loss is a concern. Open play is stagnate and other “funny bowling” is losing its charm and sports leagues are iffy. State and local tourna-ment participation has dropped drastically. Remember that “Old Guard?” They are the ones who put all those tournament teams to-gether. BPAA feels they must protect the com-petitive aspect of bowling if they are to survive. This is a story of what can happen with “blind” change and not being sure where the path will lead or what kind of devastation it will leave in its path. Will the pride in belonging and joy of meeting friends at “Nationals” ever return? Who knows? Technology has changed drasti-cally. This is a good thing but questionable. After creating an impossible problem with scor-ing, all of a sudden it has to stop and lane con-ditions are crazy. How will this even out? Who knows, but it is discouraging to those loyalists who keep coming back each week hoping they can find a line. The average bowler doesn’t have an arsenal of bowling balls to handle each lane condition and they are certainly not savvy enough to know how to use them if they had them. An encouraging aspect is groups like the 500 and 600 Clubs are going strong as well as the California Bowling Writers and a variety of inde-pendent tournaments. After being the adhesive of the bowling organizations for nearly 80 years for women and 100 for men this is important to the very reason we want to belong. Bowling centers are being renovated and upgraded and there are new ones with new concepts. This is a good thing. I feel bowling has a frown on its face right now but there seems to be a good vision for the future and hopefully there will be a smile one of these years. Can we learn from our mistakes? Let’s not forget how we got here. Yes, the face of bowling is changing.

Philomen Severance 1926-2009

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Stephanie Loucks, Classic Division Female and Jon Dukes, A Divi-sion Youth. The Senior Women’s Tournament received 203 entries and will be held weekend of August 28-30 at Double Decker Lanes, Rohnert Park. This year’s Prince and Princess Tournament will be held at Bowlium Lanes in Montclair. Kerry Billings, 2008 Princess was intro-duced. Entries increased this year for the Queens and Masters Tour-nament, but the committee is hoping for improvement. The Youth State Scratch Tournament Committee announced that with the age rule change, former entrants will “age out”. We need to encourage new bowlers to participate. Entries will be in all the Centers by the end of August. Presentations were made by the Awards Committee. All Stars for 2009 are Alise McGinnis, No. LA County; Laura Hardiman, San Diego; Natalie Jimenez, Samantha Jimenez, and J.D. Pelo all from Orange County. Also presented were Coach of the Year, Phyllis Bourque, Vista; Association of the Year, San Gabriel Valley USBC; Proprietor/Manager of the Year, Larry Campbell of Tyme to Bowl, Oroville.

The 2009 California USBC Hall of Famers, Linda Johnson of Covina for Meritorious Service and Sam Carter of Ben Lamond for Superior Performance were presented their awards. The recipient of the 2009 Star of Tomorrow $1000 Scholarship, Michael T. Fujita, Jr. of Richmond was introduced and his amazing bio read. California State Youth Scholarships were presented to Anthony Rose, Golden Em-pire USBC and Amanda Fazio, No. County USBC. Elected to the CAUSBC Board: 1st VP Linda Johnson; 3rd VP Matt Cormack; Directors Elaine Baker, Kathy Bruegeman, Lynn Graves, Mike Lucas, Mabel Sheasley, Cyndee Sutherland, Ruth Abreo and Ferenc Schulz. Elected as Delegates to the National Convention Al Hoffmann and Linda Johnson. Elected to the Youth Committee: 3rd VP, Matt Cormack; Proprietor, Gary Foreman; At Large Members, Lynn Matsubara, Roxanne Leigh; Directors: (1), Robin Hricik; (3) Tim Pato; (5) Tom Leigh; (7) Annette Anderson; CYLA Director (1) Amanda Fazio; CYLA Director (3), Matt Cormack. Elected by the Youth Delegation: CYC Director (1), June Brown; CYC Director (3), Don Lauer; CYC Director (5) Linda Stewart; CYC Director (7) Annette Anderson. Announcements: Bette Addington, President of California Bowling Writers reported on their activities for the Convention Weekend. Senior Tournament Committee Host Association Award went to Cen-tral Coast USBC and No. L.A. County USBC received the award for most entries outside of host association (55). California State Senior Men’s 2009 Tournament is being held last weekend Oct., first three weekends Nov. in Fresno. The 50/50 Drawing $720, 8 prizes of $45 claimed. Bette Addington thanked Carol Mancini for $l00 donation to CBW Phone Cards to the Military in Battle; Larry Peppers reminded all to pick up award applications; Doug Lauer thanked the delegation for the opportunity to serve. The flags were retired at 2:30 pm. The meeting was adjourned at 2.32 pm. For more information please be sure to visit the state web-site at www.CalUSBC.com, where you can obtain updates on all our current events in progress, the schedule of activities for the future and much more.

CALIFORNIA USBC “UPDATES” By Phyl Knoll The CAUSBC Annual Meeting was held in the Raincross Ballroom of the Riverside Convention Center, June 14, 2009. President Hoff-mann called the Annual Meeting to order at 9:00 am, following pres-entation of the United States Flag, The California State Flag, and the CAUSBC Flag. The Memorial was given by Director Lynn Graves. Rosie Parker Sergeant-at-Arms, led the Pledge of Allegiance, and the National Anthem was sung by Brianna Levy of San Gabriel. President Hoff-mann declared a quorum present. Minutes of the 2008 Annual Meet-ing were approved. President Hoffmann acknowledged Joan Fein-blum, Agnes Duffy, Mary Lynly and Linda Johnson, Past Presidents of the California Women’s Bowling Association; Phyllis Bourque, Past President CYABA and currently a Director of CAUSBC; Bob Schone-man, Director of Association Development for USBC and Carol Mancini, Co-Publisher of the California Bowling News. President Hoffmann appointed Ruth Beigle as Recording Secretary and Kim Goldsworthy as Parliamentarian. Written reports from the President, Association Manager, Directors and all Committees were provided in the Delegate’s packet and in the interest of time, would not be read. In attendance were (5) Officers, (20) Directors, (78) Adult Delegates, (39) Youth Delegates - a total of (142) eligible to vote. A motion was presented from the Legislative Committee to accept the proposed Amendment to the CAUSBC By-Laws. Association Manager, Larry Peppers referred to the Budget Report and noted significant information on the Balance Sheet and Income Statement for year ending July 31, 2008. There were no questions. California Youth Committee reported changes in the State Scratch Tournament and the Scholarship Program, which will be posted on our Website and included in all mailings. Doug Lauer, current CAUSBC 3rd Vice President was introduced. He has “aged out” in the youth position and is retiring. The Tournament Committee has received proprietor bids and the North County USBC will host the 2010 Youth Championships. The Women’s Championship Tourna-ment Committee is entertaining bids from associations for the 2010 tournament. Current leaders of the Open Championship Tournament were reported. High All Events is 2870, and the Singles is 846. Two 300 games were rolled simultaneously by two former youth bowlers. Updates to the Pepsi Youth Bowling Championships for 2010 were announced. The District Finals for 2010 will be held March 13-14 for Districts 2,4,6 and 7; March 20-21 for Districts 1,3,5, and 8. The committee is looking for bids from centers and those interested should contact their District Directors. The State Finals will be May 1-2 at Fountain Bowl in Orange County. The BVL Committee donations for 08-09 were $237,451.87. In this was $975 in memory of Joan Scharsch, a longtime supporter of BVL. Since 1950 California Bowlers have donated $8,444,187.06 to The BVL. Top associations for 08-09: Citrus Belt USBC $12,000; Or-ange County USBC $11,000; San Gabriel Valley USBC $9,200. The BVL Bowling Ball Raffle winner is Karen Tweed, Merced. Winners of Bowling Carpet Kits to be sent to active-duty Military are June Brown of Modesto and Karen Tweed of Merced. The 2010 BVL Tourna-ment will be held at Yorba Linda Bowl in April. Several winners of 2009 tournament were recognized: Dexter Harrod, Division B Male;

Considering only 146 delegates were present at the Annual CA USBC Convention, attendance at the CBW Annual Me-dia and Publicity Lunch-eon was excellent. As always it was definitely one of the highlights of the weekend. How could we miss with Jim Sturm, BPAA President and USBC board member, as the featured speaker? Although severe weather delayed his flight on Fri-day, he was able to re-schedule and arrived on Saturday about 45 min-utes into the luncheon. We let him take a breath or two, down some water and then he was ready. Sturm’s focus was on the future of bowling and ways to communi-cate with the generation of young peo-ple who are different and totally into themselves. They are multi-taskers who do many things at once – a new cus-tomer. Proprietors from all over the country continue to work on finding ways to interest these young people and at the same time are creating new inno-vative league programs to get them

involved and most importantly keep them on board. One of the most inter-esting concepts to date is a proposed two-game format with a different method of scoring which could make it possible to have three leagues an evening with the last one starting at 8:00 PM! The audience was most interested in this particular concept and there were many questions. Jim concluded with a quote from his father who said, “When the ‘fund’ gets out of bowl-ing and the fun gets in, there will be a resur-

gence of the game.” The annual awards presentation followed with chairwomen, Phyl Knoll (Golden Quill) and Agnes Duffy (Profile Award). The Pro-file was presented to Pat Helwig of San Diego and the Golden Quill went to Mary Lynly of Roseville. Both chairmen urged the CBW members to write more and sub-mit their stories to our contests, with a goal

to have many more entries in 2010. Among the VIP’s present were author and coach John Jowdy and wife Brenda, Fred Groh of Bowling Industry Magazine, Gary Forman, co-proprietor of Fountain Bowl, CAUSBC President Al Hoffmann, Assn. Manager Larry Peppers and USBC Representative Bob Schoneman. Also present were Hall of Famer & All-Events winner of the 2009 USBC Women’s’ Championships Robin Romeo, and Carol Mancini, co-owner of Bowling News. Numerous prizes were provided for our guests thanks to our presenting sponsors Reno’s Eldorado Hotel/Casino and the BPAA along with Columbia, Storm, Luby Publishing, Pinspiration with Roger Dalkin, Brunswick and hot off the press, John Jowdy’s latest edition of Bowling Execution. California Bowling Writers, formed in 1998, is open to all California bowling journalists, promoters and supporters of the sport of bowling. The purpose of the organization is to encourage and educate both members and non-members in com-munication through print, promotion and use of electronic media. CBW will recog-nize and reward those who create media awareness by providing outstanding bowling photography and journalistic excellence. For more information visit: www.calbowlingwriters.org.

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We also had an intriguing book written by Roger Dalkin, past Execu-tive Director of the United States Bowling Congress. The book, titled the Gutter Paradigm, is short on pages but packed with inter-esting insights into how things that happen in the bowling business could be related to things that happen in the everyday business.

Also on hand was our donation jug that was used to advertise our charity of giving tele-phone cards to our troops overseas for Valen-tines Day. Anyone can drop a dollar or two in the jug and know that they are helping ease the loneliness of a service man or woman who may be far from home during the holidays. The CBW board donated 32 really thoughtful gifts that were won by those that tried their hand at the DICE THROW. You could earn tickets for the drawing by the number that came up on the two dice that you could throw. We were pleased that six new people joined the California Bowling Writers, two women and

four men. Thanks to all that stopped by our table and renewed their membership or joined for the first time. Hope to see you at next year’s event in Foster City.

This year, the California Bowling Writers again enjoyed the coming together of the local associations at the CAUSBC Annual Conven-tion, Workshops and Product Fair. The organization uses the exposure at the Product Fair to sign up new members to the or-ganization, let members renew their membership and of course take a chance at the popular DICE THROW. Anyone can purchase the space and have a table to advertise their endeavors. We gave all members that stopped by our table a beautiful new pen from CBW. The table featured many exciting items that the delegates and guests could purchase. Two of the most popular items were books. One was offered by the Luby Publishing Company. It chronicles the 50 Greatest Players in Professional Bowling Association History. This is a great commemorative book that any bowler would not only enjoy reading, but would make a great addition to their library. If you were over the age of 50, certainly you would remember many of the historical things that happened during the popular PBA television series. The pictures and stories transported you back to the days of the Saturday afternoon televised competition.

Another Success by CBW ~ Sturm Provides Drama

CBW Dice Game Table ~ Books, Buddies and Bunches of Fun

CBW Luncheon Keynote Speaker

Jim Sturm, BPAA President

Charter Member Jan Burgess Renewing Her CBW Membership

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The beautiful acrylic laser engraved award is a unique replica of the CBW logo. This year’s topic was “The Changing Face of Bowling” and it drew a total of five en-trants. Golden Quill Committee Chairman, Phyl Knoll, was able to secure the services of Alice Meglemre, bowling writer and columnist for California Bowling News and Joel Davis, author and award winner as the 2009 Golden Quill judges. Other entrants this year were: Andrea Adamson, Pacifica; Pat Helwig, Oceanside; Marian Mann, Daly City and, Jackie

Wyckoff, Campbell. Congratulations to everyone for writing about bowling and entering the contests. Profile articles can be written now to be accepted for 2010. Get your pens moving or your fin-gers tapping those keys and give us an inter-esting profile story about your favorite senior, youth or other league bowler or maybe your excellent proprietor. You never know, you could be next year’s winner! The Golden Quill topic is currently being decided and the submission dates will be disclosed when topic is selected. Stay tuned and check back to the website at www.CalBowlingWriters.org for the most current information.

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CBW Annual Meeting Life Members

Mary Lynly & Agnes Duffy

CALIFORNIA BOWLING WRITERS 2009-20010 OFFICERS & DIRECTORS

Bette Addington, President 661-589-3119 Donna Dillard, Secretary 626-683-8658 Joan Romeo, 1st VP 818-997-7152

Tina Martin, Treasurer 415-897-4458 Marian Mann, Sergeant at Arms 650-991-9386 Directors: #1 North—Barbara Metzinger #2 South—Phyl Knoll #3 North—Andrea Adamson #4 South—Jill Williamson

Our two fabulous writing awards were presented at the CBW Media Luncheon on June 13, 2009, at the River-side Marriott. Ms. Pat Helwig of Oceanside became our 2009 CBW Pro-file Award winner with her story “A Thrill for 10 Cents”. Helwig was one of six entries received in the competition this year, according to Agnes Duffy, Profile Committee Chairman. Her story will be featured in our next issue. Pat received the traditional blue and white engraved plaque that is sponsored by past President Eloise Cottrell. Other en-trants this year were: “He Walks Among Us” – Mary Lynly, Sacramento; “A Lion’s Tale” – Marian Mann, Daly City; “For the Love of the Sport” – Tina Martin, Marin County; “A Story of Success” – Barbara Metzinger, Sacramento; and “Fashion and Flair at the PBA Gala” – Jackie Wyckoff, Campbell. Mary Lynly of Roseville became the first writer to receive a second Golden Quill Award. Lynly, immediate Past-President of CBW, and writer extraordinaire, excit-edly remarked she now “has a set of book-ends!” as she was presented her award.

California Bowlers Shake Up Leaderboard at Open Championships

Vince Baptista of Millbrae, Calif., and Wayne Wada of Alameda, Calif., have combined for 10 appearances at the USBC Open Championships, but nei-ther had competed in the event outside of the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nev., until this weekend. The two left-handers, who like to bowl in Reno because it is close to home, are regular visitors to Las Vegas and used this year's Open Championships as a reason for an additional trip to one of their favorite places. They got more than just another vacation, however, as they moved into third place in Classified Dou-bles at Cashman Center on Monday. Baptista, 54, led the pair with a 628 se-ries, while Wada, 52, added 573 for a 1,201 total. Melanie Sweet and Lashawn Farrish of Bowie, Md., lead with 1,220. "Some of the scores are high, but the lanes definitely aren't easy," said Baptista, who had 586 in team and 564 in singles and moved into 10th place in Classified All-Events with 1,778. "You have to be accurate, and that's the name of the game here. Our goal is always to stay clean and give ourselves a chance, but we missed a few spares along the way, and that proved to be the difference."

2009 Writing Contest Winners

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2009 CBW Writing Award Winners Mary Lynly & Pat Helwig

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67th president by the Bowling Writers Association of America Board of Directors. Wyckoff is the charter secretary-treasurer of CBW and editor of the CBW InfoLink. These actions capped a historic week for BWAA as members in attendance voted 34-31 to accept a Strike Ten Entertainment BPAA/USBC proposal to serve as administrators for the organiza-tion, replacing the current Executive Director on the Board. With the creation of the new International Bowling Campus, which already houses the USBC, BPAA, STE, the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame, the new International Training and Research Center, the Bowling Foundation, the International Pro Shop and Instructors Association, the Billiard and Bowling Insti-tute of America, and the Bowling News Network, the sport and business of bowling is on the move onward and upward. Now BWAA will join the IBC in Arlington, Texas, to have their admini-stration handled by STE. Ron DeRoxtra was approved as BWAA Administrative Director.

Since its beginning in 1961, the Sam Levine Flowers for the Living Award has been given to great people in the bowling industry who have made exceptional contributions over the years to enhance the growth, welfare and image of bowling. This year's winner, CBW Member and Past WIBC First Vice President Elaine Hagin of Castro Valley, Calif., epitomizes those words. For six decades, she has served bowling, not for monetary reward, but from a deep love of the game and for people around the world who share her love and devotion to the sport. At the Bowling Writers Association of America Columbia 300 Press Party and Awards Banquet, all the major awards were pre-viously announced, with one exception, the Remo Picchietti Hu-manitarian Award. Members had the honor and pleasure of see-ing this award presented to a most gracious and deserving recipi-ent, Mary Lynly. Mary was so overcome with emotion it was the first time anyone has ever seen her speechless! Jackie Wyckoff of Campbell, Calif., was elected to serve as the

CBW Members Shine in Las Vegas for BowlExpo & BWAA

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The format for the U.S. Women's Open will also slightly change in 2009. Par-ticipants will bowl three eight-game qualifying blocks over three days (Aug. 4-6) before the field is cut to the top 25 percent. The remaining play-

ers will bowl an additional 16 games on Aug. 7. The top 12 players then advance to the tele-vised, single-game, match-play portion with the top four players receiving a first-round bye directly into the quarterfinals. "We talked to a number of bowl-ers after this year's U.S. Women's Open and made changes they wanted to see," USBC Vice Presi-dent of Media Pete Tredwell said. "There is now an incentive to be among the top four players after the qualifying portion concludes. This change also allows for a smoother television show as there will no longer be simultaneous matches." The U.S. Women's Open is open to any USBC fe-male member and features a prize fund of $150,000, with $25,000 going to the champion. The entry fee is $300. Log on to Bowl.com for more info.

The U.S. Women's Open, a USBC event, will return in 2009 and will be held in conjunction with the WTBA World Women's Cham-pionships in Las Vegas. For the third consecutive year, the U.S. Women's Open will feature five television shows on ESPN, with the air dates to be announced at a future date. The event is scheduled to be held Aug. 3-9 at Sunset Station Hotel and Casino's Strike Zone Bowling Center in Las Vegas. The U.S. Women's Open will immediately follow the World Women's Championships, which will be hosted on the USBC Open Championships lanes at the Cashman Center from July 27-Aug. 2. "The ability to tie these two events together is a big plus because it will allow for a field of the best female bowlers in the world," said USBC Chief Operat-ing Officer Kevin Dornberger, who is also president of the WTBA. "There is so much talent not only here in the United States but also internationally that it will be com-pelling competition."

CBW Continues Troop Phone Card Charity

Do you have someone you would like to honor or perhaps honor someone’s memory? Or, for the California Bowling Writers Phone Cards for the Troops charity, maybe do it just because it is a good cause. CBW continues this effort for 2010. An initial drive for donations in 2004, which resulted in a total of $500 collected, has swelled to donations totaling over $23,000 in phone cards for the troops by 2009. Thank you notes from family members were the icing on the cake. To learn how much joy a phone card can bring to families who are parted by war was most gratifying. We even had one serviceman say, “Hey, you’re the ones who send us the phone cards!” When you think of the thousands of troops deployed and to hit one who got one of our cards was awesome. A special card is made telling the recipient who we are and if it is in memory/honor of someone. This card, our Valen-tine, enfolds the phone card. The YMCA gals at Twenty-nine Palms Marine Base in California ship each card with a package for each serviceman or servicewoman. We get the cards from AT&T and they give us a good deal – the more we buy, the less they are! We will once again send calling cards for Valentine’s Day in 2010 and we are off to a good start with a very generous donation of $500 from the Bowling Writer’s Association of America. Many previous donors have asked to be re-minded again. Send donations, any amount is appreciated – to: Tina Mar-tin, CBW Treasurer, 57 Shields Lane, Novato, CA 94947.

2009 U.S. Women’s Open

Kim Terrell, 2008 Winner

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