The 60th annual Council of Delegates Meeting of the Nation’s Capital Area Bowling Association will be held Sunday, February 29, 2004 at the Holiday Inn Metro Center in Alexandria. Delegate registration will take place from 11:30 a.m. to noon, at which time lunch will be served. The meeting will begin at approximately 1 p.m.
	All leagues are urged to send their representatives to this important meeting. This is the time when the bowlers can express their views on important facets of the bowling operation of leagues and the association, its programs, and any phase of the sport.
	If the originally designated bowler cannot attend, league secretaries can authorize a league member to attend as the league’s representative by filling out the form on page 7.
	Officers and directors of the NCABA for the 2004-2005 season will be elected at this meeting. The Nominating Committee has presented a report to the board of directors, and it has the board’s approval.
	For president: Bill Grover of Burke; first vice president: Kirk Williams of District Heights; second vice president: Gene O. Mays of the District; third vice president: Scott Gielda of Columbia, Md.; fourth vice president: Larry "Bud" Smith; and fifth vice president: Robert Ashley of Chantilly and Michael Coleman of Reston.
	For life membership: Harrold Capps of Wheaton and Ronald McGregor of Temple Hills, Md.
	Directors nominated for a two-year term ending July 31, 2006 include incumbents Mark Bennett of Germantown, Md.; Thomas Daniel of LaPlata, Md.; Reinardo Garcia of Hollywood, Md.; Ted Gruszkowski Jr. of Woodbridge; Edward Hillyard and Alex Padua Jr. of Wheaton; Ronald Holton of Fort Washington; Lee Johnson of MIdland, Va.; Donald Kramer of Waldorf; Ray Marquardt and Kenneth Mutzabaugh of Alexandria; Edward Morgan of Oxon Hill; Harry Mundrick Jr. of Burke; and Julius Prince of Upper Marlboro.
	Other candidates for directorships include Anthony Johnson of Herndon—a current associate director.

BILL GROVER, the nominee for president, was born in Alexandria. He received a BA in history from Loyola University in New Orleans and an MA in American 
history from George Mason University in Fairfax. He is a member of the Special Access/Freedom of Information Act staff of the Textual Archives Services 
Division of the National Archives.

Bill has been an NCABA member since 1979 and was appointed to the association's board of directors in August 1994. He has served as house director for Bowl 
America Burke and Bowl America Fairfax. Bill has been chairman of the 700 Club and 3 C's committees and served on the following committees: Hall of Fame, Ways 
and Means, Annual Meeting, Tournament Site Selection, Virginia State, and Vision 2000.

Bill has worked at the singles and doubles house of the NCABA Championship Tournament since 1995. He takes pride in resurrecting the 700 Club tournaments.

Bill lives with his wife, Karen, in Burke.

GENE O. MAYS, the nominee for second vice president, was born and educated in Alberta, Virginia. He retired from the D.C. Government after 31 years of service and also reitred from the U.S. Army after 25 years of service.  
 
Gene has been bowling since 1969 and has assisted bowlers in various capacities. He has accompanied adult and youth bowlers on numerous trips to compete in tournaments in the greater northeastern part of the country. He is past chairman of the Suspension Committee and the 3 C's Tournament, and has formerly served as a lane director for AMF University. His bowling average consistently has been over 200 for the past few years.  
 
He is a former ROTC instructor and is currently a part-time travel consultant. Since retiring, Gene has become a master tour guide with expertise in American and Black history and the civil war. Additionally, he is very active in community affairs in his neighborhood and holds a 32 degree in the Masionic organization.
 
Gene currently resides in Northwest Washington with his family.

SCOTT GIELDA, the nominee for third vice president, started bowling in the Washington, D.C. area at Andrews AFB in 1976, competing in the AJBC Bantam II's with a 125 average under the instruction of Leo and Jan Hendershot. He continued to bowl at Andrews through his first year of community college. When he moved away to attend Johnson & Wales University in 1983, he enjoyed all intramural sports offered, including bowling.
Upon graduation, Scott returned to the area and was out of bowling for about two years before joining the Wednesday Men's 900 league at Rinaldi's Riverdale in 1989. Since then, he's bowled in at least two leagues every winter season and one every summer. He has held every league officer position and is the current president of the Monday Fellowship league at Crofton Bowling Centre.
Scott was assigned to the NCABA board as an associate director in 1996 by Vice President George R. Sook, and in 1997, Scott became a lane director, servicing AMF Laurel, Ft. Meade, and Crofton.
Scott served as chairman of the Technology Committee from 1997-2002. Under his tenure, the committee established the association's award-winning Web site, www.ncaba.org. Some of the features he designed include the online searchable yearbooks, and a most popular feature for league secretaries, the "Online Awards Submissions" program. Working alongside then-Webmaster Vince Jozwiak, Scott helped grow "ncaba.org" into one of the most widely recognized bowling association sites on the Internet and the first to publish squad-to-squad updates of its tournaments.
Speaking of which, the committee also was responsible for the rebirth of an annual association mixed tournament: Again this year, Scott will coordinate the 5th annual NCABA.ORG Mixed Tournament at AMF Alexandria  (June 5-6 & 12-13).
His most recent achievement was to redesign our association's local awards program to include two new "limited average" awards and to consolidate several other awards. He also has worked on the Program Evaluation, YABA, CLIW, Awards, Calendar of Events, and Public Relations committees.
Scott resides in Columbia, Md. His highest average has been a 201, with a high game of 280 and a top series of 727.

LARRY “BUD” SMITH, the nominee for fourth vice president, was born in Punxsutawney, Pa. He served in the United States Navy right out of high school, and he retired from the J.C. Penney Company in 1990.
He became an NCABA director in 1992 and served as assistant executive director from 1995 to 2001, when he was voted an association life membership.
Bud has been a Virginia State delegate for 11 years and an American Bowling Congress delegate for 10 years. He currently serves on the following committees: Virginia State, Tournament Site, Rules, CLIW, Golf, and NCABA Championship Tournament. He additionally serves as lane director for Lord Calvert.
A member of NCABA since 1972, Bud has a high game of 289 and a top series of 772.
Bud and Carol, his wife of 43 years, currently reside in Dunkirk, Md. They have a son, a daughter, and two grandsons.