 | Bette Addington President |
CBW Media Luncheon a highlight of the 3rd CUSBC Convention Weekend!
What a great event we had for our 2009 Media Luncheon featuring keynote speaker Jim Sturm!! Special thanks to CBW Luncheon Chairperson Joan Romeo, along with her two daughters Robin and Tori and her granddaughters for the great job getting the room prepared, greeting all our guests and displaying all our sponsor’s raffle items.
If you missed the Luncheon, you missed not only a very informative speaker but also a chance to win a great raffle prize.
The weekend kicked off for CBW on Friday when the CBW Board meeting took place in the afternoon and the CBW Annual Meeting was held that night. Twenty-one members were in attendance for the Annual Meeting. (More details on the outcome of our Annual Meeting will be available in the next InfoLink.)
Friday and Saturday, besides holding the meetings, CBW was manning a table at the CUSBC Product Fair. Thanks to CBW Product Fair Chair, Barbara Metzinger, our table was manned by a variety of Board and CBW members throughout the two days. We had our ever-popular Dice Game, a couple of books available for sale (one by Roger Dalkin and the other was the Top 50 PBA book) and we also renewed membership and had a nifty highlighter and pen combo that we gave out to all those who renewed. Plus we also had a donation box for our 2010 Phone Card Drive. Even though attendance was down a little for delegates coming to this Convention, we still did pretty well with our participation in the Product Fair.
Saturday around noon was our Media Luncheon and guests arrived early to get a good seat. Our keynote speaker, Jim Sturm, who lives in West Virginia, however, was having travel problems and was originally scheduled to arrive on Friday night but due to weather problems, his flight to LA was postponed until Saturday morning. Needless to say, he was late getting to our Luncheon, but it all worked out smoothly as everyone had their meals and there was no feeling of being rushed.
Jim Sturm’s presentation came across very cordial and even though he is President of the BPAA (Bowling Proprietors Association of America), and a Board member of USBC, he was very personable and took the approach of a center manager looking into the future of bowling which was very interesting. The Q&A session after his presentation lasted almost as long as his speech with a lot of the audience getting involved.
If you didn’t make it, we missed not seeing you and you missed a great luncheon.
The talk was the 2010 CUSBC Convention is headed to Fremont but nothing confirmed for sure yet.
As always, I would love to hear from any of our members if they have any feelings on when we hold our annual Media Luncheons or our Annual Meetings as we want our members to be able to attend if at all possible. Feel free to drop me an email.
Bette Addington 06/23/09
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l to r seated: Bette Addington, Donna Dillard, Barbara Metzinger and Past President Agnes Duffy. standing: Joan Romeo, Past President Mary Lynly, Phyl Knoll, Bob Brown and Tina Martin. Not in picture: Kathy Watson, Jill Williamson, and Marian Mann.
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World Ten-Pin Youth Tournament in July – Orlando, FL – Tournament of Americas
Worlds Women’s Tournament – Las Vegas, NV – (follows the open tournament) late July
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2008 Profile Award Recipient Pat Helwig
Past Recipients
2007 Mary Lynly
2006 Bette Addington
2005 Mary Lynly "Wyckoff Captures National Award"
2003 Bette Addington "New Westchester Manager puts Customer First"
2002 Mary K. Lynly "In Memory"
2001 Marian Mann "A Proud Mom"
2000 Phyl Knoll "The Legend"
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2009 Golden Quill Winner Mary Lynly
2008 Golden Quill Winner Mary Lynly
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