Spring 2016 - United States Bocce Federation

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Spring 2016 - United States Bocce Federation
Spring 2016
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UNITED STATES BOCCE FEDERATION QUARTERLY
Spring 2016 EDITION
IN THIS ISSUE
Page
From Midcourt by Jerry South……………………….…….....………..….3
Show Me The Money by Cynthia Rivera…………………………………..5
Campo di Bocce of Fremont………………………………………………..6
The Albuquerque Bocce Club ……………………………………………..8
Dante Club of Fresno ………………………………………..….…….……11
Sector Reports………………………………………….…..….………....…14
Directory of Officers……………………………...….…….…..…….……..18
Two Important Dates:
The Competition Starts
On June 25th
The Last Day To Register
Is May 6th.
Click on the poster at left to get
complete information, including
competition and uniform rules,
dates of each event, and
applications for each event.
Don’t miss out!
The United States Bocce Federation Quarterly is published four times a year. Our mission is to promote bocce throughout the United States, with an emphasis on introducing bocce to our nations youth and young adults; perpetuating the
sport in all age groups; providing clinics and other teaching methods to those who wish to improve their game and to
prepare our elite players for National and International competition.
USBF Board of Directors
Jerry South, President
Lio Gianotti, Vice President
Colleen Randazzo, Secretary
Cynthia Rivera, Treasurer
Inquires or comments concerning this quarterly should be directed to
Editor Frank Rivera at: [email protected]
Written correspondence should be addressed to:
USBF Quarterly c/o Frank Rivera,
P.O. Box 22005, Carmel, CA 93922-0005
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FROM MIDCOURT
Warm welcomes to Dante, Albuquerque and
Toccolana!
Pan Am Games Update: Last year at
Pan Am Games and
The Olympics
By Jerry South
President, United States Bocce Federation
Bocce Spring: It’s in the high 70s on
our full-sun deck in San Rafael, California. The
early lettuce crop is being harvested from our
pot garden and our two tomato plants are budding. League play started three weeks ago at
Marin Bocce. Ben Musolf, Margaret Shindelus
and the nationals tournament team have been
busy planning and looking after the weekly satellite tournaments that are leading up to the
June 25 kickoff money tournament. There’s already a bunch of new teams signed up for the
Money, Open A and B events. May 6 is the
deadline for Nationals registration. Don’t delay and be disappointed!
Membership: I don’t have hard figures
on membership, but recently, I saw a stack of
completed membership apps at Campo Livermore that came from the satellite tournaments
and Ben’s solicitation of league players, all of
whom reportedly were glad to sign up and support USBF. Larry Cereghino, Western Sector
Rep, has been successful in garnering new
members in the Northwest. We have three new
member clubs: The Dante Club from Fresno,
California has signed on, as has the Albuquerque Bocce Club in New Mexico. The big news
from the Eastern Sector is from Rome, New
York, the home of the Toccolana Club and
host of the annual “world series of bocce.”
Toccolana is now a USBF member and provides
us with representation in upstate New York.
the board meeting in Methuen, we agreed to
host the first friendly Pan American competition
at the Methuen Lodge in late October. Invitations were extended to two South American national federations to send men’s and women’s
teams to compete against the top two men’s and
women’s raffa teams from our June Nationals at
Campo Livermore. Methuen, as host, will also
provide two teams. I hope to announce the
names of the South American teams in early
May.
In March, the board approved acceptance
of an Invitation from the South American organization that sponsors the real Pan American
Games, which features championship competition among all of the South American countries.
As an additional reward, our gold medal women’s raffa team at the June Nationals in Livermore will represent our country. The date and
venue of the games has not been set but we expect the date will be in August. Dealing with uncertainty is no fun for any of us!!
2024 Olympics and Bocce: The summer 2024 Olympics are expected to take place
in France, and already there is a movement underway in CBI and member countries to include
the Boule sports volo, raffia, petanque and
lawn bowling as Olympic sports. Bernard
Champey, a director of the French Boules
Federation and CBI member is the man behind
French raffa. He has organized a doubles tournament that will include players from France,
Italy and China, the first of its kind in France. He
urged me to begin planning for the 2024 Olympics. Unlike France, the boules sports in our
country are fragmented, but hopefully the concept of American teams competing in the Olympics will be enough to start a conversation.
Selecting Our National Team: The Olympics
chestnut and the ascendency of American raffa
players in world championships again elevates
the discussion about selecting our best raffa
players to represent us. A subset of that question is the role of our annual national tournaments.
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The Problem: We have been out of
whack for several years between our Nationals
and the Worlds. For example, our team from
Palazzo Di Bocce, Detroit won the Club Team
Gold Medal in St. Louis, 2013, and this year we
expect the World Championships will take place
again in Italy - 3 years overdue. There’s a consensus that USBF should conduct a qualifying
event close in time to the world championship.
The conflict arises regarding team events.
Should the objective be to select the
best players to form a team or should we select a team? In short, should the qualifying
event be Singles competition or Team Competition? A case in point is the team that won
the gold in our 2015 Nationals at Methuen. The
team was undefeated and included two young
players who gave us inspiration for the future.
However, there were three older players on other teams who were stronger and more experienced players. If they had been selected, the
Gold Medal team would have been a stronger
team for world championships.
Would a Selection Process Diminish
the Role of Our Nationals?: I think not! Our
national tournaments could be energized by offering more Open events and variations of raffa
competition. Open players tell me that they find
raffa triples so difficult with 12 balls on the
court. They enjoy doubles and singles as a way
to transition without worrying about the plethora
of balls to contend with. As a first step I would
like to see 3 person raffia teams, playing
doubles and singles side-by-side with a rotation of singles players. Doubles champions would be determined by wins, head to
head, etc, but the Singles would contribute
points, which, .when .added to. the .Doubles
points would determine Team champions.
So it would be possible to have a different
Team champion from a Doubles champion.
A tournament within a tournament! Rotating
singles players would be an equalizer! TOO
RADICAL? If only the Sectors would experiment…
Website: I am pleased to announce that
Frank Rivera, our newsletter editor has taken
over the reins as webmaster for the USBF website. He replaces Kathi Tesarz, who has ably
performed the difficult task of establishing and
managing the website for several years. Many
thanks to Kathi and welcome to Frank. We will
keep you posted as adjustments are made.
That’s enough pensieri for the day. Enjoy
the spring seasoon wherever you are, plant a
garden, play bocce and count your blessings.
I’m looking forward to seeing you at Campo
Di Bocce Livermore for the Nationals. Remember to sign up by May 6.
Jerry South
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SHOW ME THE MONEY
Cynthia Rivera
USBF Treasurer
I’ve spoken with a number of club administrators over the last month or so regarding the cash
incentive. They’ve had some legitimate questions.
Who gets the incentive? How much does each club
get? When do we get it? I will answer all three
questions as briefly as I can.
Who gets the incentive? The club itself gets
the incentive to use in whichever way they decide.
The money does not go to individual members who
joined or renewed membership in USBF for 2016.
How much does each club get? That depends on the size of the membership. The larger
the club, the larger the incentive check. Each club
gets $5 per member, new or returning. If a club had
25 returning members at the beginning of the year,
and signed up 5 new members, that club is eligible
for an incentive check for 30 total members if all 30
joined the USBF. And that’s the rub. That’s why we
call it an ‘incentive program.’ It’s up to each club to
use incentive to grow their club membership.
When do we get it? This is where I come in.
At the beginning of October, each club will receive
an email from me with a very simple document attached. It will ask two questions. How many returning members did you have in 2016; and how many
new members did your club sigh up? No names;
just two numbers. This is so I can reconcile your
membership numbers to the numbers I have for
your club. Beginning in November, I will start issuing a check to clubs in the amount equaling $5 per
member, new and returning. Now... this is where I
have a request to make:
Please report your membership numbers
on a fairly regular basis. Your club may not start
league and tournament play until the Spring and
Summer months, but that doesn’t stop you from
getting a jumpstart on signing up your members.
We are already seeing a large jump in membership due to this program. I’m going to be quite
busy at the end of the year, so I have a simple request for each club administration:
Please send in your USBF Applications on a
fairly regular basis. Every three or four months.
This will allow me to keep a current membership
count for the entire USBF, club by club, so that at
the end of the year, I’m not inundated with applications and requests for incentive checks, which may
delay the clubs getting their checks.
A Friendly Reminder
In becoming a USBF member, you are
automatically added to our newsletter distribution list. Even though the USBF Western Sector
Newsletter covers bocce news and tournament
photo spreads primarily in the Western Sector,
many members of the Midwestern and Eastern
Sectors enjoy receiving it.
Due to the costs of maintaining the mailing list through our distributor, we keep only one
mailing list to send out both the United States
Bocce Federation Quarterly and the USBF
Western Sector Newsletter. In the eyes of our
distributor, two distribution lists double our subscriber numbers. Basically, the more subscribers, the higher the cost. Thus, our use of one distribution list.
If you want only one of the publications, you never-the-less get both. Concurrently, if you use the
‘Unsubscribe’ option at the bottom of the email to unsubscribe from one of the publications you’d rather not
receive, you unsubscribe from both. We apologize for this inconvenience, but it is a matter of fiscal sense
for us.
If you want to receive one publication but don’t care to receive the other, we would ask that when receiving the unwanted publication, please delete it from your ‘in’ box. This is the only way to continue receiving the publication you do want. If you don’t want either publication, one ‘unsubscribe’ will do.
Thank you.
Frank Rivera, Editor
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First came Campo di Bocce of Los Gatos
then came Campo di Bocce of Livermore
and coming in the Fall of 2016
Campo di Bocce of Fremont
The people of the city of Fremont, California have something to look forward to in the
Fall of 2016. Indeed, we all have something to
look forward to; an expansion of the Campo di
Bocce Empire! The third location of Northern
California’s premier bocce venues is currently
being constructed with no amenity left out.
Preparing the surface for the wood frames and underlayment
The process begins
Like it’s two sister venues, Campo di
Bocce of Fremont will include eight courts;
four indoor and four outdoor courts. The size
of these courts are not quite as big as in the
other venues, but almost. Big enough to give
the most experienced players all the challenge the other eight Campo courts offer.
Space is the issue, both inside the preexisting building and outside.
Applying the asphalt underlayment
The four outdoor courts will be 9 feet
wide by 75 feet long. The four inside courts
will be a little larger; 9 ½ feet wide by 80 feet
long. The side and back walls will be made of
glue Lams, the same beams that hold up
house roofs in today’s construction. They will
be surfaced by Mike Grasser, owner of Da
Vinci Bocce L.L.C. of Sylvan, Lake, Michigan,
whose courts have been called better than
any court in all of Italy (having played in the
2015 National Championships on Mike
Grasser synthetic courts at the Sons of Italy
Lodge in Methuen, Massachusetts, we won’t
argue. They are superb surfaces).
The outdoor courts, awaiting Mike Grasser’s surfaces.
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After several hours of rolling and shooting the two pound bocce, you may need a beverage to quench your thirst. Not to worry.
There will be two full bars; one inside and one
outside. The inside bar will feature ten beers
on tap while the outside bar will have four to
six beers. And if that bocce exercise works up
an appetite, there is plenty of dining area.
There will be three private dining rooms
that can also be used as meeting rooms. Imagine having a typical Campo di Bocce lunch
during a corporate meeting, then shaking off
the business dust with a few frames of your
favorite sport. That’s what we call a successful
meeting! Need a larger space for your meet-
ings? They will have 12,000 square feet of corporate convention space available for rent.
If you need to get rid of a little energy
after the excitement of beating all of your opponents in bocce, you can do so without leaving the building. Campo di Bocce of Fremont
will have 16,000 square feet of rock climbing
space called “The Peak of Fremont.”
We’re looking forward to the opening of
the newest edition of Campo di Bocce. It looks
like this new venue will offer all the amenities
the other two venues offer plus a few things
the others don’t have to make the newest edition of Campo di Bocce of Fremont a welcome
edition to the Campo di Bocce Empire.
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The United States Bocce Federation extends a hearty welcome
to its two newest member clubs;
The Albuquerque Bocce Club and The Dante Club of Fresno
3804 Camino Capistrano NE
Albuquerque, NW 87111
When Trevor Levandoski was a young child in
New York, bocce was a common activity played at
both family and friend gatherings. It was a sport
that all could play, and although it was considered a
very social sport, many games became competitive. When Trevor married in 2000, he had a large
yard which needed tending to. Trevor had talked
with Alisa's family, especially her grandfather, about
the game of bocce that was played in the coal
camps when her grandfather was a young boy in
Raton, NM. This seemed like a great idea to fill in
the awkwardness of their "T" shaped backyard.
After much thought, he and Alisa decided to
build a bocce court to cover some of the space. For
several months, Trevor would use his lunch hour to
begin work on what would become the bocce court
on Field Dr. Once the initial framework was completed, he and his brother moved 13 tons of
"crusher fine" from the front of the home to the
backyard to cover the court. 50+ wheelbarrow trips
full of crusher fine did the trick. The bocce court
was emerging as an eye-catching piece to Trevor &
Alisa's yard. After several more months of clean-up
and aesthetic improvements,
the
first bocce court
was complete.
To celebrate
both the completion of the yard and
Trevor & Ken's
birthday, the first
Bocce
Birthday
Bash was held in
July of 2001. It
was a small event,
with just a few
close friends and
family. This small
event did not last
long. People continued to talk about
the game of bocce and inquire as to when the next
party would be. A few more small bocce events
seemed to hold people off, however, each event
brought in 10-20 more people with requests for
monthly and even weekly events.
The Lion
Over the years, the lion has emerged as the symbol of the Albuquerque Bocce Club. The lion is a strong, brave creature. A
"leader" of the pack. Additionally, the surname Levandoski is a
Russian given name Leonid, which was originally derived from
the Greek Leonides, from the byname LEO (LION).
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The buzz seemed to
courts were ready for
The Crest
subside when Trevor & Alisa
play. Each court holds a
sold the house on Field
unique characteristic. The
Drive and moved to a bigger
"Main Court" is where the
home.
This did not last
final round is held, as it allong! Trevor's father, brothlows for adequate lighting
er and good friend Mike delate into the night. "Diablo"
cided it was time to build a The top left symbol represents the city of Albuquerque earned its name from the
bocce court, and the land- and the hot summers when bocce is played. The bottom numerous anthills that sureagle is the “Polish Eagle,” which represents the
scaping of the new backyard left
Levandoski family name. On the right, the Monk repre- round it. "Muscle Beach"
began! A traditional court sents the club members; the sword represents the com- earned its name from the
was to be built, with 12' x 60' petitive nature of the sport and spirits represent the deep amount of crusher fine
social aspects of the club.
dimensions and a clay/
which forces the player to
oyster shell surface. Following the first tournament "muscle up" in order to complete a good
at the new location in 2003, the Albuquerque Bocce throw. Each summer, 130+ people attend this
Club grew ten-fold. Players wanted to become event, with 64 competing in the tournament. Trevor
members, friends wanted to invite more friends and & Alisa serve a traditional Italian meal at each toureveryone wanted to come and just watch if there nament. Bocce, food and drink make for a wonderwas no room to play. With this, it was decided that ful summer event, so.... Unisciti a noi e aggiungere
alla nostra storia (come join us and add to our hisadditional courts needed to be installed.
After much clean-up and labor, 3 additional tory)!
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Welcome to the USBF as a new Member Club
6176 Grantland Ave.
Fresno, CA 93723
The Dante Club was established in 1932 and
is operated today as a private social club to preserve and foster Italian-American heritage. It is an
expressive private social organization that accomplishes its purposes through private membership
and through social, educational, civic and charitable
activities. Our membership consists of over 150
members who are a male descendant of an Italian
father and a citizen of the United States.
The Dante Club members meet once a week
throughout the year with the exception of holidays
at our current facility that was built in 1995 and sits
on six acres in northwest Fresno. The other days
of the year our facility is rented out to the public for
weddings, parties, business meetings and social
events and can accommodate seating of over 300
people with a full kitchen and bar on site.
Our Club is popular for our social events held
throughout the year where members and guests
enjoy our great dinner events like our “BBQ turkey,
Chicken Cacciatore and Polenta”, “Linguini &
Clams with Cracked Crab” and “Famous Braciole”
all chaired by our membership.
Our members meet once a week to eat, socialize and “Play Bocce”! It has become our main
draw for our membership. Our previous facility included one bocce court in the back surrounded by
olive trees and members would enjoy a favorite
beverage, cigar or ante-pasta plates socializing and
playing bocce. When our new facility was built in
1995 we included an area to house the John Oberti
Bocce ball “courts”, four of them which were named
after an original member who loved the game of
Bocce.
At that time the Dante Club John Oberti Bocce Ball League was established, and now there are
16 Dante Club teams consisting of five members
per team that play from May to November. Teams
battle each other in regular season play to qualify
for the eight team double elimination playoff tournament to win the Dante Club John Oberti Championship. The members still enjoy the eating, drinking
and socializing but it has become a very serious
Club activity.
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Every year since 1996 the Dante Club has
sponsored the Special Olympics Bocce Ball
games. The event has grown to over two hundred
students from the special education department of
the Fresno Unified School District. The event is
held over a two day tournament. From here the
students go on to play in the State games up in
Sacramento. This event is a very popular event
and draws praise from the district, teachers and
students. “We take a lot of pride in putting these
games on for the students” says chairman and
Dante Club member Ron Sidoli.
In order to make this happen, the Dante
Club members decided to remodel our four Bocce
courts from sixty feet to regulation ninety feet and
include pergolas on each end. We also have the
room to increase our number of courts in the future
if needed. “This is something we have discussed
for many years” says co-chairman of the Dante
Club John Oberti Bocce League Anthony Donato.
“We have a vision to attract new club members,
host an open bocce tournament , an Italian Festival and make the game of Bocce a very popular
event here in the Central Valley!” The Club would
like to host a one day tournament in the next three
years and have it an annual event. “We want to
show people that play bocce that we have a great
facility to hold an event and beautiful Bocce courts
to play on, but to do this we need to offer a nice
purse for the winners”, says Donato.
Top picture: Maria Sanchez, 16, from Sunnyside High rolls her ball.
Above: Tony Sinongxa, 21, raises his arms
after a good roll.
Over the last several years some members
from the Dante Club have played in out of town
tournaments like the Monterey Bocce tournament
which sparked an interest to someday host a tournament on our own Bocce courts providing Italian
food for participants and a money prize to attract
teams from out of the area to come and play on
our Dante Club courts.
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The Dante Club members enjoy playing Bocce each week after dinner and it has become a
very popular activity at the Club. The new courts
are made up of a bocce mix of oyster shell & powder and sand over a compacted base. It is a very
fast surface.
The members put together a team consisting
of their own family, good friends or level of play and
battle each other each week in our league play or
just pickup games after dinner. Some take it very
serious, some come out for fun and some just enjoy the great Italian heritage of bocce.
It’s a Club activity where every age can participate and enjoy each other’s company.
We hope to see teams of the USBF come to
the Dante Club of Fresno and enjoy a great game
of bocce!
Anthony Donato
Dante Club Secretary
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Western Sector
The Real Beauty
of the Nationals
By Dario Bernardi
Western Sector President
Ciao TuttiIt’s amazing…. The Nationals are just
about here. I cannot believe it. What a great
event. This is a chance to see people from all
over the U.S. and play some great bocce. The
event is being held at Campo di Bocce Livermore this year and as I have mentioned before,
this is a great time of year to be in the Bay Area.
Also, the event dates were pushed back this
year to try and run into th 4th of July Holiday, so
this is truly a great opportunity to plan a vacation
in beautiful California.
One of the best parts of this event is that
there is bocce for EVERYONE!!!! And I mean
everyone. From the open-money tournament to
the raffa championship. There is open ‘A’, and
open ‘B’ as well. I am truly hopeful that the
Western Sector will have teams from all over
representing us. Of course there will be great
food and drinks available, so please feel free to
come by and support bocce too!.
Remember, at this time of year there are
plenty of things to do around this area as well.
The Alameda County Fair will be in town during
the event. It is literally 10 minutes from CdB. We
are also in the middle of the beautiful Livermore
wine country. Great restaurants and wine tastings all over the place. We also have the San
Francisco Giants in action as well as the Oakland A’s playing. There is also minor league
baseball. All of these events are with-in an hour
of Cdb. If you really want to experience and
beautiful ride to the mountains, beautiful Lake
Tahoe is a short 3 hour car ride as well. The
Santa Cruz beach is also about an hour away.
Sooooooo, there is something for everyone!!
But again, I think the real beauty of this
tournament is seeing the people that you only
get to see once a year. I am looking forward to
that.
Happy rolling
Dario
Midwestern Sector
Gregory Della Croce
Midwestern Sector President
No Sector Report submitted
Eastern Sector
Guy De Santis
Eastern Sector President
No Sector Report submitted
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USBF Treasurer
ON THE RIGHT TRACK
By Cynthia Rivera
Treasurer and Membership Officer
In the meantime, I’d like to thank the following clubs who have already taken care of
their 2016 Club Membership:
4S Bocce Club
in San Diego, California
Albuquerque Bocce Club
in Albuquerque, New Mexico
It looks like we’re on track to having more
member clubs this year than we’ve had in the
past several years. Or maybe not.
Three new clubs have joined us; all three
in March. The Albuquerque Bocce Club in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Dante Club in Fresno, California and the Toccolana Bocce Club in
Rome, New York. Although we are happy to
see these clubs join, we are woefully short of
reaching the number of member clubs we had
last year. And the year is already one third
over.
I have been told that many of the clubs,
particularly in the Eastern, Midwestern sectors
and the Northwest area of the Western Sector
don’t really get started with their bocce season
until late Spring or Summer due to the weather,
and the fact that they have outdoor courts. This
can be a perfectly good reason for not renewing
their club membership yet, but there are a number of clubs yet to renew who have indoor
courts and have already started league play
and have had tournaments.
We all know the USBF fiscal year begins
on January 1st. Here’s a little suggestion from
me that all clubs might consider: take care of
the business of USBF club membership early
so you can concentrate on playing bocce. Then
when your season is in full throttle, you can
sign up new members and renew members
from last year with your eye on the prize: that
incentive check that will come in November.
American Sons of Columbus
in Kansas City, Missouri
Dante Bocce Club
in Fresno, California
East Portal Bocce Club
in Sacramento, California
Elkhorn Bocce Club
in Stockton, California
Italian American Citizens Club
in South San Francisco, California
Idaho Bocce Club
in Boise, Idaho
Italian Athletic Club
in Stockton, California
Italian Athletic Club Ladies Auxiliary
in Stockton, California
Italian Benevolent Society
In Sutter Creek, California
Mount Vernon Bocce Club
in Mount Vernon, New York
Paesano Bocce Club
in Gresham Oregon
Portland Bocce League
in Portland, Oregon
Scotts Valley Bocce Club
in Scotts Valley, California
Toccolana Bocce Blub
In Rome, NY
Waterloo Gun and Bocce Club
in Stockton, California
Woodland Park Bocce Club
in Seattle, Washington
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The Three USBF Sectors
Western Sector
Alaska
Arizona
California
Colorado
Hawaii
Idaho
Montana
Oregon
Nevada
New Mexico
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Midwestern Sector
Alabama
Arkansas
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Wisconsin
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Eastern Sector
Connecticut
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United States Bocce Federation - Directory of Officers
President
Jerry South
San Rafael, CA
WESTERN SECTOR
President
Dario Bernardi
Pleasenton, CA
Vice President
Margaret Shindelus
Livermore, CA
Secretary
Ursula Hansen
Stockton, CA
Treasurer
Cynthia Rivera
Carmel, CA
Western Sector Representative
Larry Cereghino
Milwaukie, OR
Populous Directors
Vern Cooper
Sacramento, CA
Vice President
Lio Giannotti
Chicago, IL
Secretary
Colleen Randazzo
Martinez, CA
MIDWESTERN SECTOR
Treasurer
Cynthia Rivera
Carmel, Ca.
EASTERN SECTOR
President
Gregory Della Croce St’ Louis, MO
President
Guy De Santis
Yonkers, NY
Vice President
Jason Wisniewski
Detroit, MI
Vice President
Gabriel Quattrocchi
Baldwinsville, NY
Midwestern Sector Representative
John Liberto
Kansas City, MO
Sector Representative
Ralph Bagarella
Salem, NH
Populous Directors
Populous Director
Mike Grasser
Sylvan Lake, MI
Joe Quartarone
Miami FL
Jack Grandi
Highwood, IL
Rich Robertson
Florissant, MO
Laura de la Rosa
Sacramento, CA
Nancy Martignago
Stockton, CA
Ben Musolf
Los Gatos, CA
Frank Rivera
Carmel, CA
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