Ferguson and Suttora win IGBO 2006 Fellowship Award
By Jerry Lovell—IGBO Fellowship Committee Chair
Republished from October 2006 IGBO Newsletter
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| Mike
Ferguson IGBO
2006 Fellowship
Award Recipient |
May 2006—Michael Ferguson of Toronto, Ontario,
Canada and Ron Suttora Jr. of San Diego, California
received the fellowship award for outstanding
service to their communities. This award is the
highest honor IGBO can bestow on an individual.
The award was presented to Ron Suttora Jr.
and was accepted on behalf of Mike Ferguson
by Stephanie Johnstone at the IGBO Annual
banquet in Kansas City, Missouri.
Mike has been an ambassador to IGBO and Gay
Bowling on an International level with his volunteer
work supporting Team Toronto, arranging for
bowlers to stay with family members in Sydney
during the gay games in Australia. Mike is known
for his hospitality to IGBO bowlers when they are visiting Toronto. In addition, you can ask anyone
in the Toronto area about Mike and they
will all know who he is and his activities within
the Toronto area.
Mike is known for his volunteer work at a
number of organizations one being Variety Village
which assists children with physical disabilities,
another being on the board of Fife
House for 5 years which assists persons with
HIV and AIDS. He worked to increase the
revenue for Fife House with helping develop
the BINGO night which continues to be an
on-going fundraiser today.
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| Ron
Suttora Jr. IGBO
2006 Fellowship
Award Recipient |
Ron as most of you know has done so much
work for IGBO as treasurer, but many are
probably not aware of the work he has done in
his own community. Ron is known for his
high degree of integrity, responsibility and
ambition. He co-founded the San Diego Gay
bowling leagues in 1999, when there was only
one gay league of 48 bowlers. It has grown to
three leagues and 180 bowlers. Ron serves as
the league coordinator, whose job is to make
sure all the leagues startup successfully each
season as well as running the community outreach
to continue to grow the gay bowling community
in San Diego. He has paid the entries
for a team of women to participate from his
San Diego Community to the women’s only
tournament LOVIT. Ron has been co-director
as well as treasurer for the San Diego tournament,
bringing the tournament back to the
days when the tournament was the hot ticket
item in the West. He also has been a mentor
to many of the new league officers and bowlers
within the community. Ron is well known in
the San Diego community for his involvement
in the bowling community as well as the gay
business community.
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