Gary L. Anderson has been continuously involved in bowling since early childhood. He has participated in and/or been exposed to all phases of the game as a worker, manager and administrator. He has “set” pins, cleaned “pits”, leveled and adjusted pin decks, buffed and conditioned lanes and managed large modern bowling centers. He has served as a league president and secretary and played the game as an amateur and as a “card carrying” pro bowler.
Gary established residency in Greenville, SC in 1979. He was elected a Director on the Board of the Greenville Bowling Association in 1981. He became the Association Vice President in 1986 and was elected to the Presidency for a one (1) year term in 1990. He became secretary of the South Carolina Men’s Bowling Association in 1988, and was elected to the position of Jurisdictional Director for South Carolina on the Board of Directors of the American Bowling Congress in 1990. He has uniformly discharged the broad range of responsibilities associated with positions of managerial skill and leadership in an outstanding manner.
Soon after moving to Greenville, Gary became involved with the SBA (and it’s forerunner) as a bowler in the Annual Championship Tournament and then as a guest and delegate at the Annual Meetings. A practical hard-working and intelligent man of incontrovertible integrity, he quickly earned the admiration, confidence and respect of his peers who accurately identified him as a dedicated, determined and highly competent “doer”, one clearly capable of assuming higher levels of responsibility and authority. He was elected a Director in 1985, and while performing most effectively in that capacity, continued to demonstrate a remarkable degree of acumen and perceptivity in his analysis and resolution of organizational problems. Gary became the Secretary-Treasurer on August 1, 1989, and in the course of shouldering the extensive responsibilities of that office, discovered a critical need for a comprehensive administrative and functional reorganization of the entire structure, on a priority basis. He immediately informed the Executive Committee of the magnitude of his findings as well as the ramifications and possible consequences thereof. Authorized by the Executive Committee to take whatever steps were necessary to correct the situation, Mr. Anderson initiated requisite corrective action and during a long and tenuous period of reorganization directed and administered procedures designed to successfully restructure the organization and resolve it’s major problems. In November, 1991, Mr. Anderson became the first Executive Director of the Southeast Bowling Association, Inc. He continues to occupy that position and discharges the duties and responsibilities of the office in a most exemplary manner. The nature of his service to this organization merits the highest order and level of recognition.
