ance category, and listed on the rolls of seven Halls of Fame. Both Robin and Tori Romeo are notable professional players. Joan Romeo is an "idea" person, an invaluable asset to CBW. She is a classy, creative person who has the ability to log details like none other and go one on one with people on any level. She has been instrumental in promoting Pro-Am’s, working with and promoting Team USA through USA Bowling, a consultant to CWBA for the 75th Anniver-sary, working with the well known author and bowling coach John Jowdy in pro-moting bowling clinics and

the list goes on. Although she is not one to seek recognition, among her honors is the Columbia 300 Remo Picchietti Hu-manitarian Award and the BWAA President's Award for her endeavors in raising money for their scholarship program and Hall of Fame. She is the ultimate pro-moter for any sponsor and a talented writer. It is completely through the efforts of Romeo that CBW has acquired several spon-sors over the past few years. Among them, Eldo-rado Hotel & Casino in Reno, The National Bowling Stadium, Ebonite Interna-tional, Storm Bowling Com-pany and the Bowling Pro-prietors Association of America. She also forged a partnership for Bowlers Journal Magazine to spon-sor the CBW Writing award in the 2010-11 season. CBW is proud to have such a talented, creative Board of Directors and Joan Ro-meo is the perfect choice to lead the charge in the next couple of years.

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The CBW Board of Directors voted to say “Bye-Bye” to the Golden Quill Award and “Hasta la Vista” to the Profile Award. In-stead, we will be rolling out the new Mari-jane Viat CBW Writing Award in 2010-11. Chairman of the Profile Award, Jackie Wy-ckoff, presented a proposal at the board meeting to combine the two current awards, expanding the criteria for the new award, creating a new award and in de facto, eliminating the Profile and Golden Quill awards as we know them. In recent years there has been a significant drop in entries for one or the other of the writing awards. Wyckoff indicated that “The Board of Directors for CBW agreed that perhaps having two specific categories for our writing awards was a bit restrictive. We want every member who writes about bowl-

ing to submit their articles for our contest and sometimes that article does not fit into either of the award’s criteria.” The new award, named after CBW Charter President Marijane Viat, will continue to be sponsored by Bowlers Journal and ANY news story, editorial, event coverage or any other story is eligible to enter as long as the focus of the story is bowling. Stories must be 300-1500 words, written between April 1, 2010 and March 30, 2011. The committee will roll out the final criteria and the application will be posted on the CBW website as soon as it’s available. So, WRITE! Write about whatever YOU want, as long as the main topic is bowling. Perhaps you will be the first WINNER of the Marijane Viat CBW Writing Award?

Joan Romeo of Van Nuys, CA was elected to serve as President of CBW for a two-year term begin-ning on August 1. She originally hails from New York where she was an avid bowling promoter, as-sociation officer and kids coach. Joan currently serves on the Bowling Writ-ers Association of America Board of Directors, the BPAA International Strate-gies Committee and the PWBA Exhibit Committee for the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame. In the Marketing business for more than 30 years, her efforts involved soccer, bowling, golf - including Callaway and Taylor Made - and charitable events that used professional tennis as a catalyst to raise money for the entertainment indus-try's primary causes, both amateur and professional. It comes as no surprise that Joan has used her talents to focus on promoting Women’s Bowling. Daugh-ter Robin Romeo is a USBC and California Hall of Famer in the Superior Perform-

CBW Writing Awards “Revamped”

Joan Romeo Elected to Lead CBW Voted Unanimous Choice as President

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Happy Summer!! Today as I write this message to you it is the first day of sum-mer, the Laker parade to celebrate their back-to-back NBA title was today, and temperatures are only in the high 80’s…life IS good!! Still trying to digest all that went on at our State Convention. It was nice to see many of you attending. We sure squeeze a lot into those three days! The final outcome was it was a very productive and fun weekend. The CBW Board met on Friday afternoon and made some big decisions for next year for our organization. Among the many items discussed were: Changing the Golden Quill and Profile writing contests and make these two into one writing contest that we will hold annually. We decided to keep our annual Phone Card Drive for the Troops as our charity for 2010-2011. This will be our 7th annual, so the Drive is on and donations are NOW being accepted. Let’s see if we can beat last year’s total of $8,100.55! We also discussed the idea of offering for sale to our mem-bers a light-weight jacket with our logo. Having a table in the Registration/Exhibit area was great. We recruited three new members: Cyndee Sutherland, San Jose; Kathy Schulz, Marin and Kathryn May, Tracy, who won the new member prize. Welcome, Ladies. Thank you, CUSBC. We hope the new and renewing members enjoyed their renewal gift of post-its and post-it flags with a patri-otic cover to tie in to our Phone Card Drive. Saturday marked our annual Media Luncheon and our keynote speaker, Tony Reyes arrived early to mingle with everyone. Reyes, of San Bruno, former PBA bowler who currently coaches the bowling team at San Jose State, and a pro shop owner, as well as a Hammer staffer, was anxious to give his presenta-tion tied into our theme “Communication is the Key” but before that could happen we needed to find out what luncheon participant was holding the key that would open the treasure chest! Upon arriving to our Luncheon each guest was asked to draw a key attached to a Storm keychain to take to their table. During lunch each table was sent to the “Treasure Chest” to try their key. As we were about to finish eating, it was discovered that everyone had tried their keys and none opened the treasure chest! Tony jumped into action and took the basket of remaining keys that were not drawn and said he had auction experience and could auction the basket off to the highest bidder. Everyone had a blast with this, as unplanned as it was, and thanks goes to Jackie Wyckoff and Joan Romeo for co-chairing our Luncheon this year and making it so much fun for all our guests. CBW truly does have a great group of ladies running this organization who all aspire to do the best for all of us. It is such an honor to serve as your president and was so gratifying to hear guests come up after our Luncheon was over and say what a good time they had and how much they enjoyed our speaker. Thank you to all who were at the Convention who came to our Annual Meeting that was held on Saturday night. Your input is so important and this is the only time we can meet to hear your views. This will be my final message as your President and I have really enjoyed the opportunity to serve. I had hoped to be able to reach out to more of our members for your input and involvement but even though I am leaving this position, I will not be leaving the organization and plan to stay involved so if there is anything you ever want to run past me, feel free to contact me. --Bette Addington

President’s Follow Through

CBW President Bette Addington

CBW Gratefully Acknowledges our 2010 Sponsors

Bowling Proprietors Association of America 621 Six Flags Dr. Arlington, TX 76011 800.343.1329 Eldorado Hotel Casino John R. McGinnes Director of Sales 345 N. Virginia St. Reno, NV 89501 888.808.7720 National Bowling Stadium Bob Thomas Opr. Manager 300 N. Center St. Reno, NV 89501 800.304.2695

Storm Products Inc. "The Bowler's Company" Dave Symes, President 165 South 8th W Brigham City, UT 84302 800.369.4402 Columbia Industries Bugsy Kelly, Brand Manager 5005 West Avenue, San Antonio,TX 78213 800.531.5920 Luby Publishing Inc. Keith Hamilton, President 122 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 1506, Chicago IL 60603 312.341.1110

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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

Tony Reyes, CBW’s keynote speaker, strongly believes in communicating life’s lessons through bowling, which fit nicely with this year’s luncheon theme, “Communication is the Key”. With that in mind, it was a no brainer to invite Tony, the Pro Bowler, Pro Shop Owner, Coach and Humanitarian to speak and share his keys to success. As coach of the San Jose State Bowling Team, Tony says, “he com-municates “visually, verbally and intellectu-ally”, advocates eye to eye contact and being a good listener. Salon V at the Marriott Hotel Silicon Valley, Fremont, Cali-fornia was the site of the Cali-fornia Bowling Writers (CBW) Annual Media and Publicity Luncheon. The event was held Saturday, June 12th during the CUSBC Convention. Festivities began with the CBW Treasurer, Tina Martin, providing the Invocation. In keeping with “Communication is the Key” Theme, CBW filled a chest with prizes and then locked it. Upon check in, all were given a Storm bowling ball key chain and key. During lunch everyone was invited to open the Chest, which contained approximately $1200 worth of goodies, including: ♦ A Two Nights Stay in a Spa Suite at

Eldorado ♦ Dinner for Two at Roxy Restaurant at

Eldorado ♦ Breakfast for Two at the Eldorado

Buffet

♦ Two Tickets for the Eldorado Show-room

♦ Team Entry for Four Players for the Storm National Mixed Team Tour-nament

Amazingly, no one picked the key out of the basket which would

open the treasure chest! A snap decision was made to “auction” off the basket that contained the few remaining keys, one of which would open the treasure chest. Tony Reyes proved to be a great auctioneer and the un-expected bidding war which

followed between Agnes Duffy and Joan Feinblum couldn’t have been scripted any better. In the end, Duffy bested Feinblum and the winner in all of this was Reyes chosen charity, the Don Johnson Memorial Nationwide Children’s Hospital for Juvenile Diabetes to the tune of $725. Sponsored by the Eldorado Ho-tel Casino, Reno, The Bowling Proprietors of America, the National Bowl-ing Stadium, Storm, Roto Grip and Colum-bia, the luncheon was attended by several sponsors and industry leaders. Mary Lynly, CBW Mistress of Ceremonies for the afternoon, invited sponsors Bob Tho-mas of the National Bowling Stadium and John McGinnes, Director of Sales for the Eldorado to say a few words.

Lynly then intro-duced Ted Hoff-man, recipient of the 2010 BPAA’s Victor Lerner award, Al Hoff-man, CUSBC President and a few former WIBC board members, Hazel McLeary, Elaine Hagin,

Agnes Duffy, Joan Feinblum and an old time friend of the writers, Red Pfeiffer. At the conclusion of the luncheon, President Bette Addington presented the two writing awards for CBW. Pat Helwig won the Profile Award for her story “The Mystery Woman” and Bill Ades won the Golden Quill award for his story “Thanks Mom and Dad”. President Addington said “Words can’t

express how grateful the CBW board is to our sponsors who help subsidize the cost of our luncheon so our members can afford to participate. Plus, look at all these fabulous prizes our guests get an oppor-

tunity to win. Incredible.” “This was truly a team effort” said luncheon chairman and President Elect Joan Romeo. “As co-chair with Jackie Wyckoff I would like to thank the entire board for their assistance”. And a good time was had by all!

2010 Media & Publicity Luncheon A “Treasure” of Communication Keys

Outlets for Story & Article Publication

Auction Winner Duffy & Reyes

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California USBC

Francisco; Parliamentarian, Shirley Schmardel, San Diego and on the keyboard, Ellen Patterson. The Credentials Committee reported a total of 174 registered and eligible to vote, comprised of 5 Officers, 22 Directors,108 Adults, 39 Youth.

The Legislation Committee presented four Proposed Amend-ments. (#1) Art V, Sec.B: (Withdrawn); (#2) Art V, Sec.B : “No more than three (3) members from any one association will be allowed to sit in an elected position on the Board of Direc-tors” (Eff. immediately). (Approved); (#3) Art.6, Sec.C: “The President will have a maximum of four elected terms or eight (8) years”, (Defeated); (#4) Art. 6, Sec C: (as amended) “The Presi-dent will have a lifetime maximum of three elected terms or six (6) years”. (Effective Immediately). (Defeated). To keep the meeting moving, written reports from each officer, director and committee chairperson were provided in the Delegate Folders. However, I feel it is noteworthy to mention that the BVL Commit-tee reported, in 2009, on behalf of the California Bowlers, the committee donated $125,800 to our California VA facilities. And, since 1959 our total contributions in support of the California BVL has grown to $8,565,383.78.

The CUSBC takes pride in their selections of this year’s recipi-ents in the entire Awards category. Each was recognized and presented a beautiful engraved plaque. Distinguished Service Award: Jack Thomas, Citrus Heights, General Manager of Fire-side Lanes; (Because of the passing of an extremely close friend, Jack was unable to be present). Proprietor/General Manager of the Year: John Balla, San Diego, General Manager, Mira Mesa Lanes; Hall of Fame: (Superior Performance): Tish Johnson, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Paula Vidad, Crestline; (Meritorious Service): Barbara Metzinger, Carmichael; Vern Reilly, Sacramento (Posthumously). Stars of Tomorrow : Nicole Nalani Shepard, Goleta and Spencer Jon Dukes, San Diego.

At the noon recess, a grand total of 161 hungry Delegates, Hon-orees and their respective Guests, CBW members, and the entire CUSBC Board of Directors and Guests enjoyed our delicious Buffet Luncheon.

The election of Officers and Directors went very smoothly. Dur-ing the counting of the ballots for Directors, President Hoffmann called for reports from the CBW, California Senior Tournament, State 600 Club, and the State 500 Club. Elected to the Office of President, Linda Johnson, Covina; 2nd Vice-President, Kathy Bruegeman, Cameron Park; Sergeant-at-Arms, Rosie Parker, Azusa. Incumbents returned to the office of Director: Larry Pep-pers, Petaluma, Melissa Ade, Carmichael, Cheryl Huntington, Anaheim, Larry Campbell, Oroville, Phyl Knoll, Hawthorne, Chuck Shock, San Diego, and newly elected Directors Eugene McCown, (So.L.A.County USBC) and Darvis Lee, (Gold Country USBC).

With no further business or Good of the Order, the Flags were Retired, and President Hoffmann brought the gavel down and adjourned the last Annual Meeting of his term of office at 4:50 pm. Job well done, Sir!

By Phyl Knoll

Several days prior to the Annual Meeting of the California United States Bowling Congress Association on Sunday, June 13th, the host hotel The Marriott-Silicon Valley in Fremont, was buzzing with activity. Most of the board members began arriving on Wednesday, the 9th in preparation for their assigned Committee Meetings. With the exception of one committee meeting Wednesday evening, all others were scheduled for Thursday beginning at 8:30 am; one hour for lunch, and the final commit-tee adjourning, hopefully… at 10 pm. By this time, a number of Delegates had arrived and for most of us, the “annual reunion” began.

The Board Meeting on Friday was called to order by President Al Hoffmann at 9 am sharp. All but one board member was pre-sent. Although every committee chairman submitted a written report of the results of their prior day’s committee meeting, much time was allotted to what suggestions; recommendations or mo-tions they might have had. The board completed their business and the meeting was adjourned short of 4 pm. Friday evening the Marriott’s foyer to the Entrance/Grand Ballrooms had been set up to greet the Delegates with Registration along with Exhibits. Our committees were on hand to provide information on CUSBC, Youth, and BVL. Joining us again this year, was the (CBW) Cali-fornia Bowling Writers Organization. Each group had displays of sale items and/or raffle items, all which drew big crowds.

On Saturday, at 7 am some sleepy-eyed Delegates had already formed a line at the Registration Table, gathered up their folders and with cash in hand, began their inquisitive tour through the Exhibit Area. Before 9 am Delegates and Guests were eagerly making their way to the Workshop which resulted in a “full house”; much to the delight of Guest Speaker Mike Larsen, of USBC Association Development. From there, many attended the Meeting and Luncheon hosted by the CBW. Guest speaker, Professional Bowlers Association Titlist Tony Reyes was well received with his presentation, “Communication Is The Key”. From 2-4 pm a “Jamboree” was held. And again, standing room only. Specific Committee Chairpersons were to explain the func-tions of their committee and respond to any questions. This group barely disbursed and the Members of the CA Youth Lead-ers Association sped off to hold their annual meeting. Atten-dance To this meeting is restricted to” Youth Only”. The evening was “topped off” with a two-hour “Reception” hosted by the CUSBC Board of Directors. This brings us to the Annual Meeting on Sunday morning. The Delegates were seated before 8:45 at which time President Hoff-mann introduced each Officer and Director as they walked to the dais, all dressed in business attire. The President called the meeting to order at 9 am. Following the Invocation, and Pledge of Allegiance, a beautiful rendition of the National Anthem was sung by 16-Year Old Christine Mosley, Grand-daughter to Sylvester Mosley, Alameda County USBC. Serving as Recording Secretary was Nickie Pemberton, San

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written lingua franca. Los Altos freshman Alice Carli didn’t learn to print until the third grade, when she came to the United States from Italy — where children learn cursive when they start school. She gave up longhand.

Likewise, students at Hammer Montessori School in San Jose learn cursive from kindergarten be-cause founder Maria Montessori believed cursive was easier for young children to learn, teacher Lynn Belmonte said. While it may be easier for children to learn, it takes time to master. “You have to practice to get better,” said third-grade teacher Jennifer Polizzotto, whose stu-dents at Graystone Elementary in San Jose spend about an hour a week learning cursive. “It

doesn’t look like it’s supposed to initially. That’s why it would be good to practice.” Not writing script means some kids have a hard time reading it. Los Altos freshman Yuridia Ramirez said that her parents, who usually write in cursive, have to print notes to her — because she can’t read their writing. The shift saddens some teachers, who think the loss is not just in aesthetics. Social studies teacher Gerson Castro of San Jose ’s Gunderson High School believes longhand writing develops vo-cabulary. “I’m worried about academic language being lost because of technology,” he said. Castro’s favorite historical figures are John and Abigail Adams, who corresponded lovingly with one another. “I don’t know if Abigail would have felt the same way if it were in printing,” said Castro, who discusses the importance of language with his students, “but I do feel like tweets wouldn’t have been enough.” Writing is, literally, such a pain, students said. “For a final I had to write for half an hour,” Los Altos High freshman David Sur-vilo said. “My hand got tired after 20 minutes.”

They can type 60 words per minute, text on cell phones in seconds and send instant messages endlessly. What teens can’t do well, it turns out, is write in old-fashioned cursive. Ask about 40 high school students to write three sentences, and without exception the assignments come back in printing — neat or scrawled, but not in script. “I’ve forgotten how to write cursive,” said Alexis Miller, a sophomore at Los Altos High School . “Cursive has a lot of unnecessary loops,” said her classmate David Kay. “It seems to be really ineffi-cient.” Still taught in third grade and practiced in fourth, cursive then vanishes from state stan-dards, a victim of the push to prepare students for state tests and make them computer literate. “I think we’re seeing the end of pen-and paper writing, and that makes me sad,” said Amy Gibson, who teaches English at Fremont High in Sunnyvale . Like other teachers, she laments the loss of a medium that has expressed creativity and inspiration. Some say children are losing the ability to read original sources of poetry and other writing. No one knows whether the disappearance of cursive carries a long-term cost. In the first half of the 20th century, schools taught drills, pencil grip, proper writing posture and letter formation. To young children, it’s “big people’s writing.” But penmanship fell out of favor and out of teacher training programs by the ’70s. And while the state mandates that third- and fourth-graders learn handwriting, by fifth grade the students switch to focus on composing and format-ting Word documents. No one forced us to write cursive. Even elementary students turn in papers typed on PCs. And social-izing online encourages kids to quickly learn to type. “We’re on Facebook and AIM so you get faster,” said Jason Spielman. When a skill is not regularly practiced, students tend to revert to what they’re most comfortable with: printing. Print is American youth’s

Joan Romeo of Van Nuys, will lead the California Bowling Writers and Jane Bailey of San Mateo was welcomed to the board as Director #1 north. President Bette Addington of Bakersfield brought the gavel down for the last time at the CBW Annual Meeting held at the Fremont Marriott in Fremont. Elections saw all incumbents returned to office: Barbara Metzinger of Carmichael – 2nd Vice President, Tina Martin of Novato – Treasurer and Phyl Knoll of Hawthorne – Director #2 south. Reports showed the organization is solvent and records in good order. First place award winners were: Bill Ades of Victorville – The Golden Quill for his story about a “League Experience” and Pat Helwig of San Diego for her Profile story The Mystery Lady. You can read these stories on our website at www.calbowlingwriters.org. President Addington also reported on the Media Recognition awards given by CBW. If anyone sees an article on bowling (preferably positive) in the news-paper, please send it to the CBW President so she can send a rec-ognition certificate. These can also be seen on our website.

CBW is grateful to Bowlers Journal Inter-national for sponsoring our awards. The board made the decision to give one award a year instead of two and it will be renamed. Look for more information on this in the next InfoLink. Since there was no Product Fair this year, CBW held their much revered Big Dice Roll during registration time. CBW gained three new members who were entered in a new member drawing and Kathryn May of Tracy was the lucky winner of the CBW tote filled with goodies.

It was announced that the CBW successful Phone Cards for the Troops charity will continue for 2011. Total for 2010 was $8,100.55 sending 365 – 300 minute phone cards to the troops for Valentine’s Day. Total since inception is $31,714.35. Donate any time. Infor-mation is on the CBW website. Secretary Donna Dillard announced a membership total of 98 and with three new members we now number 101.

Is Pen and Paper Writing a Thing of the Past?

2010 Annual Meeting Recap & Member Report Romeo to Lead ~ Bailey Newly Elected to Board

Do you remember when the WIBC was being held in Bismarck, North Dakota? No one wanted to go to North Dakota! What the heck could we do in North Dakota? As it turned out, those that didn’t go missed a great tournament, a great convention, incredible bidding parties and hospitality that didn’t quit plus great lanes. Small townish (Bismarck-Mandan?) You betcha. The fellow who helped us off the plane drove us to our hotel! We talked about the fun for months. Seems something similar happened to the CUSBC Women’s Championships in Oroville and Yuba City. The lucky people were 598 teams who made the effort. Having bowled in 54 state tour-naments – you can be sure I’ve hit some less than wonderful bowls at tournament time. Tyme to Bowl Lanes in Oroville and Nu Generation Bowl in Yuba City were clean, beautiful with state of the art equipment and offered hospitality that didn’t quit.

At Tyme to Bowl Lanes we were on the opening squad and greeted with a buffet to die for: Mozzarella with tomato and basil, shrimp, stuffed mushrooms, sandwich meats and cheeses plus veggies and the soft drink of your choice. At Nu Generation Bowl you can see Manager Helen Means-Stinson’s touch on things. Helen ran 4th Street Bowl in San Jose for years. She knows the food and beverage business and runs a tight ship. Of note were huge recog-nition boards on the walls for all who had bowled honor scores. Staff and bowling association board mem-bers were proudly introduced at both bowls and you could see they were excited to be there and see the tournament launched. Of course, there was the Casino attached to Tyme to Bowl that attracted many bowlers and good places to eat were everywhere. These associations had never hosted a state tournament but they innately knew how to work and extend their hospitality. The best part – meeting and greeting

friends from around the state – lots of hugs and catching up and some excite-ment right off the bat when Pat Brown of Richmond bowled a 278 her second game. We had a great team on our lanes from Plumas County. Their senior member was 98-year old Dortha Shae-horn. She bowled 98 her first game and then 100 and 120! We commented on the 100 and she said, “Yes, and I intend to be here when I’m 100 too!” It is such a pleasure to bowl in a nice bowling center with nice people. Plenty of score monitors who kept their eye on everything and were our rooting section to boot. I didn’t bowl well – my fault – but I came home with a great feeling. Those small towns have it. The tournament will move to Ventura in 2011 so start making plans to partici-pate now. Ventura is a great place to go – good bowling centers and good food to eat plus, if I remember correctly, some fun places to go!

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the Expo stage a number of pioneering female bowling execu-tives and athletes to join him in delivering the historic an-nouncement on the advent of the new, revitalized Bowling's U.S. Women's Open. "This is a landmark announcement for bowling and for women's athletics - there is no more prestigious name in sports than the U.S. Open and no bigger venue than Cowboys Stadium. This event exemplifies both the surging popularity of bowling among women and the heightened consumer demand to watch and attend bowling events," said Johnson. Bowling's U.S. Women's Open will showcase the tournament lanes in the center of the Cowboys Stadium playing field, on each side of the 50-yard line. Additionally, the Open will be broadcast live on the stadium's famed 60-yard high definition video board, ensuring that all patrons in attendance have the best seat in the house. The event is sponsored by the Brands of Ebonite International and is open to all female youth and adult members in the United States. The finals will take place during the 2011 International Bowl Expo which will draw more than 8,000 attendees from the bowling industry.

Sports history was made at the 2010 International Bowl Expo, when the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America (BPAA) announced that, for the first time in the history of the sport, a Women's Major professional bowling event will be held in a traditional sporting venue. Marking a historic achievement for women's athletics, the 2011 Bowling's U.S. Women's Open will be hosted at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX; details are being finalized for the nationally televised event. The event will be held on June 30, 2011 in conjunction with the 2011 Interna-tional Bowl Expo and will be sponsored by The Brands of Ebon-ite International. "This is an incredible moment for both women's sports and the bowling industry and an opportunity for Bowling's U.S. Women's Open to rightfully take center stage before worldwide audi-ences," said Kelly Kulick, recently named ESPY finalist for "Best Bowler," the first woman to ever win a regular Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) title, five-time member of Team USA and a two-time winner of the Open. The ground-breaking an-nouncement was issued before a standing ovation at the Gen-eral Session kick-off of the 2010 International Bowl Expo at the Las Vegas Hilton. Executive Director Steve Johnson called to

Did You Miss It? A Great CUSBC Event by Mary Lynly

Industry Scores Historic Moment for Women’s Athletics BPAA Strikes Landmark Deal to Showcase 2011 US Women’s Open from Cowboy Stadium

California Bowling Writers 2010-2011 Officers & Directors

Joan Romeo, President 818-997-7152 RomeoTMT@Pacbell.net Donna Dillard, Secretary, 626-683-8658 Barbara Metzinger, VP, 916-966-4888

Tina Martin, Treasurer 415-897-4458 Marian Mann, Sergeant at Arms 650-991-9386 Directors: #1 North—Jane Bailey #2 South—Phyl Knoll

#3 North—Andrea Adamson #4 South—Jill Williamson

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2004, network affiliates dedicated 6.3 percent to women's sports. Last year it dropped to 1.6 percent. "News programs are supposed to be a window to the world and there is a journalistic responsibility to reflect that," said Messner, an expert in the sociology of sports. In 1971, 294,000 high school girls played interscholastic sports. Today 3.1 million play, much closer to the 4.4 million boys who play high school sports. Yet network affiliates ran 60 stories on men's NCAA basketball in March 2009. There were zero stories about women. It's not that coverage of men's sports leaves no time for women. The researchers found that newscasts routinely air light sports fea-tures, such as a story about a hamburger with 5000 calories and 300 grams of fat at a minor league baseball park in Michigan. The discrepancy is important, Messner said, as it reinforces the historical stereotype that sports proves men are superior to women, that the women's product isn't the same quality or would not have the same mass appeal. Messner points out those arguments have been used before, such as when African Americans weren't consid-ered good enough to compete in Major League Baseball.

A 20-year study of network and cable by USC & Purdue sociolo-gists find men take 96% of sports news in 2009. Even the ESPN Ticker gives women the short shrift - 96.4 percent of the information scrolling along the bottom of the screen was dedicated to only men's sports. The finding is part of a 20-year study of sports coverage released today by University of Southern California sociologist Mike Messner and Purdue University sociologist Cheryl Cooky. In light of these statistics, It is even more impressive that the Bowl-ing Proprietors Association of America along with charter sponsor Ebonite International has taken on the production of the US Women’s Open for 2011 and possibly beyond (see full story on page 6). Though it wasn't surprising to discover that men's sports gets more coverage, it was eye opening when researchers found that women's sports accounted for less than 2 percent of network news and ESPN Sportscenter. "There's a message that sports is still for, by and about men," Messner said. "When will the news catch up?" Just as shocking is that as more women than ever participate in all levels of sports, coverage of their gender is drastically declining. In

Women Play Sports—But NOT on TV

California Bowling Writers ~ InfoLink Newsletter ~ Editor: Jackie Wyckoff PO Box 50213, Palo Alto, CA 94303 ~ 408.866.6598 ~ JWyckoff@BowlingWriters.com

Veteran storyteller Pat Helwig is the winner of the Profile Award for the second straight year. Pats story “The Mystery Woman” edged out Ades and

Mary Lynly’s “A Wake Up Call”, both Runner Up award winners, by a mere point in the judging. Stories submitted also included: Duvall Scholar-

ship; Long Time Member; Local Ladies; The Legend of Zane

Parker and Stars Shine Bright. On the recom-mendation from the committee the

awards will be revamped for 2010-11. Check out the story on page 1 for more information about the new Marijane Viat CBW/Bowlers Journal Writing Award.

The 2010 Writing Award Con-tests garnered a total of four-teen entries in each of the two categories. The Profile Award, a story written about an accom-plishment, fam-ily tradition, proprietor, coach, senior, youth bowler, league mem-ber, etc., re-ceived a total of eleven en-tries. The Golden Quill, whose topic for this year was “A Special League Experience”, received three entries. Congratulations to Bill Ades, Golden Quill Winner for his story “Thanks Mom and Dad”. Bill was also a Runner-Up in the Profile contest for his story “Bob’s 300 Game”. Bill is a new member and this is the first time he has submitted articles for our contests. Hope-fully, it will not be the last!

2010 CBW Nominating Results

At the California Bowling Writers Annual Meeting, held on June 12, 2010 in conjunction with the CUSBC Convention at the Fremont Marriott Hotel, the follow-ing members were elected to office: ♦ President—Joan Romeo ♦ 2nd Vice President—Barbara Metzinger ♦ Treasurer—Tina Martin ♦ Director #1 North—Jane Bailey ♦ Director #2 South—Phyl Knoll These members were elected for a two-year term of office beginning on August 1. The committee received applications and resumes from candidates and found them in order. Elections to the CBW Board of Directors is open to any CBW member in good standing. Nomination forms are available on the CBW website and should be submitted to the committee no later than May 1 for consideration. All others will be welcome to run from the floor at the annual meeting. The 2011 Annual Meeting will be in Ontario. We hope you will consider running for a position on the CBW Board. —Pat Helwig, Chairman; Jane Bailey & Pat Brown, committee.

Writing Award Winners

Ades & President Addington

Helwig & President Addington

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