Boje, Baker earn another year atop USBC Board

The United States Bowling Congress Board of Directors re-elected Jeff Bojé as president and Darlene Baker as vice president Saturday following the USBC Annual Meeting in Kansas City.

Bojé, whose family owns three bowling centers in the Tampa, Fla., area and one in St. Louis, will lead the Board for the second consecutive year after serving as a proprietor director since 2004. Baker, Mahomet, Ill., who was re-elected to the Board by USBC Annual Meeting delegates, also will serve her second year as vice president after being a Board member since 2004.

The Board also approved Bojé's appointment of Tom Bluth as Director-At-Large. The Davie, Fla., resident and son of USBC Hall of Famer Ray Bluth will complete the unexpired term of Pete Tredwell plus serve the 2008-09 season beginning Aug. 1. Tredwell resigned from the Board last month when he joined the USBC staff.

Bluth is executive vice president, chief financial officer and general counsel for Ellis Diversified, Inc., in Fort Lauderdale. A member of the American Bar Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, he has spent most of the past two decades in similar positions for several companies. He previously served as a member of the board of directors of ABCO, a for-profit subsidiary of the American Bowling Congress. He is married with four children.

In other Board action taken in Kansas City, USBC bylaws will be reviewed by counsel before being sent to the USBC Legal & Legislative Committee. And an executive committee will be established beginning Aug. 1. It will consist of five board members serving one-year terms with a bylaw change to this effect being put before the delegates at the 2009 Annual Meeting in Reno, Nev.