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President


Born Christmas day 1936 in Pennsylvania (he says, ALL good men are born on Christmas day!), where he attended grade school and high school in Wilson Boro and graduated in 1954.

He served in the Army from 1960-1962. Basic training at Fort Benning, GA. Liquid Oxygen School at Fort Belvoir, Va, then to Bad Kreuznach, Germany

He worked in the grocery business fro forty years (Acme Mkts in PA - Stauer Bros. and Alpha Beta in CA)

Married to his wife Darlene for fifty years, no children

Came to Hemet in 1964. Played fast picth softball for twenty five years. Bowled for over twenty years in the Hemet Classic League. Has been pitching horseshoes for about eighteen years in the Hemet, San Jacinto and Sun City League. Captain of the Hemet West Vultures horseshoe team.
Plays shuffleboard in the District 7 Shuffleboard League where he is captain of the Hemet West White Team #1. Plays golf in the Hemet West Men's Golf Club. Life member of the Hemet Elks


Vice-President


Don DeFrancisco




Secretary


After retiring from her legal carren in the San Gabriel Valley, she moved to Hemet to be closer to her parents, Russ and Charlene Erickson and her son and his family in Temecula.

"Pitching is a family affair. Every Wedneday morning, rain or shine, Mom and I would go to the pits to cheer on Russ and his partner. Phil Lammens. They inspired me to learn to pitch. I started to practice in the backyard and joined the league in 2007. I really enjoy this sport and the comradery and support of my teammates, and all the of the pitchers and their families."

Her other interests include traveling, reading, photography and editing pictures, swimming, playing shuffleboard and being a volunteer for Kaiser Permanente Hospice and her local community.

Suzanne just received a beautiful plaque from the SCHPA for winning the most improved female horseshoe thrower for the year 2010! Suzanne is one of our favorite people in our leagues here in California. She plays for her father's team, The Miller-Jones Dead Ringers, who are sponsored by Miller-Jones, mortuary and crematorium, located in Hemet and Sun City, CA.



Treasurer


Born in Kansas City, Missouri, my family moved to California when I was 8 months old. My mother and Dan's mother were friends for 30 years before I met Dan, and we've been married for 27 years.

While living in Apple Valley, Dan built horseshoe pits in the back yard in 1990. I might have thrown 2 shoes before I threw my back out of place. That was the end of horseshoes... til June 2008 when Sharron Brown told me she would show me how to play.

That was the beginning of a lot of fun, not only for me, but something Dan and I could do together. This is my third season and I love to throw horseshoes. I also love all the friends we've made while throwing for our league.


Statistician


I have been a resident of California now for 58 years and San Jacinto for 20 of those years. When we arrived in the Mobile Home Park where I live I met a gentleman by the name of Charlie Tatum, we became close friends and he was instrumental in my getting back into horseshoes. In 1992 I was asked to Captain a team from Miller-Jones Mortuary. We played in the leagues for many years and the team, although it has changed personnel many times and I no longer captain it, the time spent was well worth it. When another friend of horseshoes Marty Boyajian retired from the wars some time back, he asked if I would carry on as the league statistician and I said I would do so and have been for three seasons now.

It was like second nature to me having spent my entire life in, either the printing business or in the newspaper business. I enjoy taking care of the scheduling, the handicapping and other chores in the league, even though at times I manage to make an error here and there, as some of the players let me know. The camaraderie in the league is tremendous, and even though it is very competitive, for the most part there are little problems. I have once again taken the reins of a team called the "Hosses." Currently we are in sixth place of a 14 team league, some on the team that have never pitched before, but all of them love the game and we are having fun, and that's really the key to horseshoes, "do the best you can, enjoy the game, and have fun,"



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