RYE, N.Y. (December 6, 2007) – The Metropolitan Golf Association elected its slate of 2008 officers at the Association’s 110th Annual Meeting, held on Wednesday, December 5 at Westchester Country Club. Leslie A. Schupak of Metropolis Country Club was elected to a second one-year term as President of the MGA. Mr. Schupak served as the Association’s 58th President in 2007. Mr. Schupak will head a 22-member Executive Committee as well as serve as Chairman of the Association’s charitable Foundation.

Also re-elected at the Annual Meeting were Vice-President Allan W. Small of Fairmount Country Club; Gene M. Bernstein of the Meadow Brook Club as Secretary; and Jeffrey R. Holzschuh of Winged Foot Golf Club as Treasurer. All will serve a second one-year term in 2008.

Mr. Schupak has been an active MGA committeeman since 1994, serving as the Association’s Secretary/Treasurer and Vice President before his election as President. He has also been a member of the MGA Public Information, The Met Golfer Advisory and Distinguished Service Award Committees. In addition, he has served as the chairman of the Editorial Committee of The Met Golfer, the Association’s widely acclaimed bi-monthly magazine.

Mr. Schupak is a Managing Partner at KCSA Worldwide, a public and investor relations consulting firm.  He received his B.A. (1967) and M.S. (1971) from Boston University and serves as Chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Board for the College of Communications at B.U. He lives in Chappaqua, N.Y., with his wife Dianne; the couple has one son, Adam, a writer for Golfweek. He has been active member at Metropolis Country Club and serves on the USGA Communications Committee.

 

The MGA’s Executive Committee includes one newly elected member, Steven J. Green of the Stanwich Club. Mr. Green replaces Brian A. Sichol of the Tuxedo Club, who leaves the Executive Committee after nine years of service.

 

More than 250 club delegates, MGA committeemen, members of the press and representatives of the local and national golf communities attended the Annual Meeting. The highlights of the meeting were the presentations of the Association’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, to New York Times sports columnistDave Anderson and the MGA Jerry Courville Sr. Player of the Year Award to George Zahringer III of Deepdale.

The MGA was founded in 1897 and is one of the nation’s oldest and largest regional golf associations, with 538 member clubs in the tri-state Metropolitan Area. A complete list of the 2008 Executive Committee and Officers is attached. For more information on the elected officers please contact Greg Midland at (914) 347-4653 or via e-mail at gmidland@mgagolf.org.

 

2008 MGA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND OFFICERS

Leslie A. Schupak...........................................................Metropolis CC

Allan W. Small...............................................................Fairmount CC

Gene M. Bernstein..........................................................Meadow Brook C

Jeffrey R. Holzschuh.......................................................Winged Foot GC

2008 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Stephen F. Boyd.............................................................Baltusrol GC

Philip T. Fabrizio.............................................................Knickerbocker CC

Steven J. Green..............................................................Stanwich C

Brian C. Leftwich............................................................Deepdale GC

James M. Litvack............................................................Springdale GC

Edward McAdams...........................................................Nassau CC

Tod D. Pike....................................................................Apawamis C

Lawrence Rafferty...........................................................Garden City GC

Ned Steiner....................................................................Mountain Ridge CC

Roger H. Tulcin...............................................................Quaker Ridge CC

Douglas Vergith..............................................................St. George’s G&CC

And in accordance with Article V of the Constitution - four special members:

President of the Long Island Golf Association - Robert Capazzi

President of the New Jersey State Golf Association - Benjamin M. Del Vento Sr.

President of the Westchester Golf Association - Leland B. Paton

President of the Women’s Metropolitan Golf Association - Kathy Dennis

And the last three living MGA Presidents shall be ex-officio members:

Donald J. Hendler, Meadow Brook C

Paul R. Dillon, Winged Foot GC

Joseph C. Cantwell, Hempstead G&CC