Frank E. Rutan, IV of Philadelphia Cricket Club is nominated to serve a third one-year term as President of the Golf Association of Philadelphia.

Golf Association of Philadelphia Nominating Committee report

  The election of Officers and the 13-member Executive Committee will take place Oct. 30, 2013, at the Association's Annual Meeting at Hidden Creek Golf Club.

  Also nominated for one-year terms as Officers by GAP’s Nominating Committee are Robert M. Morey, Merion Golf Club, Vice President; Michael J. Higgins, Aronimink Golf Club, Treasurer, and T. Quinn Spitzer, Huntingdon Valley Country Club, Secretary. Jeffrey S. Henderson of Gulph Mills Golf Club is nominated for a one-year term in his current role as General Counsel.

  Others on the GAP Executive Committee renominated to one-year terms are Dr. Larry Borowsky, White Manor Country Club; John R. Choyka, Indian Valley Country Club; William Higgins, St. Davids Golf Club; Steven D. Lucas, Concord Country Club; Chip Lutz, LedgeRock Golf Club; Michael B. McClelland, Chester Valley Golf Club; W. Garth Sprecher, Lancaster Country Club, and John C. Endicott, Manufacturers Golf & Country Club. Endicott has an Ex-Officio role, because he Chairs the J.Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship Trust, an organization established by GAP.

  The Nominating Committee also nominates five new members to the Executive Committee, including the first woman ever to serve there. Those nominees are:

• Ed Hutchinson of Tavistock Country Club. Hutchinson, 61, of Moorestown, N.J., is president of Hutchinson Mechanical Services, headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J. Hutchinson is a third generation family business specializing in commercial and residential mechanical and energy services since 1948. At Tavistock, Hutchinson has served as vice chairman of the club and on its membership committee. He also is a member of Galloway National Golf Club. He attended Spring Garden College in Philadelphia and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and holds a degree in business administration. He has served on business and charitable boards, including the YMCA of Burlington and Camden Counties, National Assembly for the YUSA, Southern New Jersey Development Council, Churchill Casualty Insurance Executive Board and The Joseph Fund.

• Oscar Mestre of Overbrook Golf Club. Mestre, 53, of Berwyn, Pa., works for Creative Financial Group, where he focuses on group health and welfare benefits, corporate retirement asset management and financial and estate planning. A member of Overbrook since 1976, Mestre is a decorated tournament player. He won GAP’s Middle-Amateur Championship in 2002 and the Lynnewood Hall Challenge Cup in 2001. Mestre has competed in the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Mid-Amateur. Mestre was a two-time NCAA Division I All American at the University of Delaware, and was inducted into its Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001. Mestre has won the Overbrook club championship and has twice served on the club’s board. He is actively involved with his church and various academic institutions.

• Glenn Meyer of Philmont Country Club. Meyer, 51, of Jenkintown, Pa., is president of GDM Advisory Group, which provides fee-only financial, investment and estate planning services to individuals. Meyer also is a member of Berkeley Hall Club in Bluffton, SC. He graduated from Lehigh University with a degree in Business and Economics, then earned a Master of Taxation at Georgia State University. Meyer’s greatest golf accomplishment resulted in a Lifetime-level donation to the Platt Caddie Scholarship. He made two 50-foot putts in a Member-Guest contest to win $10,000, which he immediately sent to the Association’s charitable arm.

• Noreen Mohler of Northampton Country Club. Mohler, 59, of Bethlehem, Pa., is vice president of the Mohler Organization (Marblehead Chowder House restaurant). She is an elite golfer, primarily at the top level of the amateur game and also as a professional during which she played in 1984 and 1985 on the LPGA Tour. She has played in seven U.S. Women’s Amateurs and five U.S. Women’s Open championships (as a pro and an amateur). She captained the 2010 Curtis Cup team, and played on the 1978 Curtis Cup team. She has won state amateur championships in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Mohler has played in 30 USGA championships, before she turned pro and after being reinstated as an amateur in 1992. She holds titles in the Eastern Women’s Amateur, New England Women’s Amateur and North & South Women’s Senior Amateur. At Northampton, Mohler has served on several committees, including as chair of the Junior Golf Committee; she is on the Pennsylvania State Women’s Golf Association board. She also is a member of Pine Needles Country Club in Southern Pines, NC, and is active in her church community.

• Richard Ogorek of Fieldstone Golf Club. Ogorek, 62, of West Chester, Pa., is president of Ogorek & Company, a financial advisory firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions, valuations, forensic accounting and litigation support. His company serves clients from small privately-held firms to publicly-held companies with market capitalizations up to $4 billion. Ogorek has been a CPA since 1979 after graduating from Wilmington College. He has served as a GAP course rating volunteer since 2000. Ogorek joined Fieldstone Golf Club in 2011. Prior to that, he was a two-time Kennett Square Golf & Country Club board member and served as its president in 2004 and 2005. Ogorek competes regularly at the club and GAP level. In addition to his service to GAP, Ogorek volunteers for the West Chester Exchange Club, the Family Center of West Chester, and The Oblates of St. Francis de Sales with its fundraising over a five-year period to build an assisted living facility in Childs, Md. for retired clergy.

  The Nominating Committee thanks these outgoing members for their dedicated service to GAP and the game. Greco is retiring after two years, because of demands on his time. Redican and Yard are each completing their fifth year of service on the GAP Executive Committee. LeBoeuf served for four years. Terebesi, whose Executive Committee tenure includes two tours as Chairman of its Championship Committee and two as an Officer, has served for 13 years.

  The Nominating Committee is chaired by Richard Meehan of Riverton Country Club and also includes Neil McDermott, Llanarch Country Club, and Craig Ammerman, Riverton Country Club. All are past presidents of GAP.

  As a group, the Nominating Committee acknowledges that adding five members at one time is a substantial move. It did so because there is an experienced, competent group remaining on the board, and because GAP now includes 184 member clubs, an increase of 72 percent from the 106 member clubs that were in place in 2000. The new members of the Executive Committee represent four clubs (Tavistock, Overbook, Northampton and Fieldstone) that have not been there for at least 15 years and, in the cases of Fieldstone and Northampton, not at all. GAP serves clubs in three states; these changes restore board-represented member clubs to two of those states, Delaware and New Jersey.

  The Nominating Committee’s report, which includes all changes described herein, has been approved by the GAP Executive Committee.