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Linda Rose-Keefe wins Senior Event
Leanna Little-Smith wins the Classified Event
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Pleasant Hills Scratch Tournament
The W A S A Story
Paramus, NJ -- During the summer of 1971, a group of proficient women bowlers were invited to attend a special meeting at Paramus Bowl to discuss the possibility of organizing a new association to promote tournament competition. Realizing the expressed need for additional tournaments in which the better bowler could compete at regular intervals without incurring great expense, the organizers knew there was a potential membership of hundreds of outstanding women bowlers residing in the eastern part of the country.
Those present at the organizational meeting included the co-founders of WASA, Jean Fish and Pearl Keller, and Chuck Pezzano, who offered his services as a consultant to the group. Also present were Rose Weinstein, Pat Mescanti, Toy Obal, Joan Oleske, Marie Dolce, Pauline Deluca, Marie Baxter, Irene Monterosso and Rosemary Losee. Also present at the time, proprietor of Paramus Bowl, Frank Esposito, offered to sponsor and host the first event. An invitational tournament was scheduled on September 2, 1971. Fifty-seven bowlers entered the first event and a then 19-year old, Cathy Almeida, won the first WASA title and a first prize of $600, with a total prize fund of $1,950.
Jean Fish served as Executive Secretary and Pearl Keller as Director of Promotion and Public Relations through the end of 1972. Following Mrs. Fish’s resignation at the end of the season, she was elected a Life Member. Keller, who then assumed the position of Executive Director, later appointed Gert Downey as the Tournament Director, with the approval of the Board of Directors.
To date, WASA has held 455 tournaments. This year (2008), as WASA marks its 37th year, 9 tournaments have once again been scheduled in 3 states. Nine tournaments will again be held for competing seniors who have attained the age of 50+. The classified division offers a separate prize fund to women averaging up to 193.
Membership in WASA has always been open to all sanctioned (USBC) women who are high school graduates (or of an equivalent age) , who have an established minimum average of 170 for a minimum 21 games in sanctioned league competition. Summer averages are acceptable.
Although WASA’s present membership includes a number of women who have been, or are currently members of the a pro organization, WASA has always been recognized as an amateur organization to protect those members, who prefer to retain their amateur status for collegiate and international competition.
With the completion of its 36th year, WASA is proud of the accomplishments of its past and present members and the realization that it has earned recognition as one of the finest organizations of its kind.
We will always continue to promote proficieint women bowlers, wherever they compete, with the hope that all women bowlers will receive the full recognition they have long deserved.
At the end of 2002, after serving 31 years, Pearl Keller retired as Executive Director, and was succeeded by Sharon Nasta of Tom's River, New Jersey.
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