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BCM’s Dave Williams:

VOL. 29, NO. 5
MAY 2024 a Long-Overdue Honor

here’s a simple reason Bowling Center Management is our industry’s lead-
Publisher
FRANK DeSOCIO T ing magazine. I’m not going to share that reason, just in case the competi-
tion is reading, but I can tell you that a big part of it involves our all-star roster of
senior correspondents and contributing writers.
Editor So, when some recognition comes their way, we love to brag. To wit: Long-
BOB JOHNSON time BCM marketing columnist Dave Williams has been elected to the California
bob@bpaa.com USBC Association Hall of Fame for
meritorious service. at makes
Associate Publisher perfect sense to anyone who knows
BARBARA PELTZ Williams for the years he spent as
312 285 5525 a marketing guru for AMF Bowl-
barb@bpaa.com ing Centers, American Recreation
Centers and Nationwide Bowl-
Creative Director ing Centers. Over the course of
ANDY NOWAK his career, he “created” more
than 100,000 league bowlers and
Senior Correspondents developed countless tournament,
MARK E. BATTERSBY instructional, open play and schol-
DENNIS BERGENDORF arship programs. Dave Williams grew up bowling at L&L
Lanes in Sebastopol, California, and was a
BARRY SPARKS Williams also was a record- member of the L&L Traveling Preps, which
DAVE WILLIAMS setting bowler. In 1975, he rolled six included three children of “Peanuts” creator
300 games in an eight-month span Charles M. Schulz. From the left: Meredith
Contributing Writers — something that had never been Schulz, Craig Schulz, Williams, Monte Schulz
JOHNNY CAMPOS done in sanctioned competition. and Laura Anderson.
ROSIE CREWS e next year, he set a California
TERRY JOHNSON full-season average record of 230 for 75 games as a member of a ve-bowler
GEORGE McAULIFFE team. In 1984, after moving back east, he set a New York state season average
HOWARD McAULIFFE record of 235 for 84 games — also on a ve-person team.
BOB PACANOVSKY But forget all his accomplishments on and o the lanes. e coolest thing
BRANDON PALUMBO about Dave Williams is that he grew up in a junior bowling program that had
KEN PATON Charles M. Schulz as a coach, and he bowled with three of Schulz’s kids in a
GREG PERKINS junior travel league — with Schulz himself serving as their chau eur. ere’s no
doubt in my mind, as a lifelong “Peanuts” fan(atic) and one who once inter-
viewed Schulz about his bowling-themed strips, that some of Schulz’s creativity
rubbed o on Williams.
Congratulations to one of the nicest guys I know on this long-overdue honor.
As for how long it took to be bestowed, all I can say is, “Good grief!”

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