Joan Taylor to receive bowling writers Luby Hall of Fame award
03/26/11
The Bowling Writers Association of America announced veteran scribe Joan Taylor (pictured) of East Stroudsburg, Penn., will receive the 2011 Luby Hall of Fame Award and bowling pioneer Bill Bunetta will be honored posthumously with the Alberta Crowe Meritorious Service Award.
The awards will be presented during the Columbia Awards dinner Tuesday evening, June 28 at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas.
Kelly Kulick and Walter Ray Williams Jr. will also be honored at the awards banquet after being named BWAA Female and Male Bowler of the Decade for their bowling accomplishments.
Joan Taylor, has covered bowling at all levels of the sport and business for 35 years and is a current member of the BWAA board of directors.
Bill Bunetta, who passed away in March, 2010 at age 90, was a bowling legend. He was a charter member of the Professional Bowlers Association, owned six world championships and is in 8 halls of fame. His only PBA tour title came in 1960 at Fairless Hills, Pa. Bunetta was known as "The Professor" because of his vast knowledge of the game of bowling and his great ability to teach the game. In 1995 he was the oldest bowler in history to roll back-to-back 300 games.
The Luby Hall of Fame Award, named after the late publisher and USBC Hall Famer (Meritorious Service, '74) Mort Luby, is presented annually to a recipient who has made a distinguished contribution to print, broadcast, telecast or photographic coverage of bowling over an extended period of years.
The Alberta Crowe Meritorious Service Award is presented to an individual or organization for outstanding long-term accomplishments in and for the sport of bowling. The award, encompassing the BWAA's John O. Martino Award and the National Women Bowling Writers' Jo Ettien Lieber Award is named after Alberta E. Crowe, former president of the WIBC and member of the USBC Hall of Fame (Meritorious Service, '82), and BPAA Hall of Fame (Lerner Award '80).
BWAA Awards
Kelly Kulick, Walter Ray Williams Jr. named Bowlers of the Decade
The Bowling Writers Association of America announced veteran scribe Joan Taylor (pictured) of East Stroudsburg, Penn., will receive the 2011 Luby Hall of Fame Award and bowling pioneer Bill Bunetta will be honored posthumously with the Alberta Crowe Meritorious Service Award.The awards will be presented during the Columbia Awards dinner Tuesday evening, June 28 at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas.
Kelly Kulick and Walter Ray Williams Jr. will also be honored at the awards banquet after being named BWAA Female and Male Bowler of the Decade for their bowling accomplishments.
Joan Taylor, has covered bowling at all levels of the sport and business for 35 years and is a current member of the BWAA board of directors.
Bill Bunetta, who passed away in March, 2010 at age 90, was a bowling legend. He was a charter member of the Professional Bowlers Association, owned six world championships and is in 8 halls of fame. His only PBA tour title came in 1960 at Fairless Hills, Pa. Bunetta was known as "The Professor" because of his vast knowledge of the game of bowling and his great ability to teach the game. In 1995 he was the oldest bowler in history to roll back-to-back 300 games.
The Luby Hall of Fame Award, named after the late publisher and USBC Hall Famer (Meritorious Service, '74) Mort Luby, is presented annually to a recipient who has made a distinguished contribution to print, broadcast, telecast or photographic coverage of bowling over an extended period of years.
The Alberta Crowe Meritorious Service Award is presented to an individual or organization for outstanding long-term accomplishments in and for the sport of bowling. The award, encompassing the BWAA's John O. Martino Award and the National Women Bowling Writers' Jo Ettien Lieber Award is named after Alberta E. Crowe, former president of the WIBC and member of the USBC Hall of Fame (Meritorious Service, '82), and BPAA Hall of Fame (Lerner Award '80).
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