GERALD FRANCIS ELLIS

ELECTED: NOVEMBER, 1981

FREEPORT, BAHAMAS

INDUCTED: NOVEMBER, 1982

NASHVILLE, TN

JERRY ELLIS, WHOSE SOUND FINANCIAL JUDGMENT AND INCLUSIVE THINKING WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN THE EARLY SUCCESS OF THE USSSA WAS INDUCTED INTO THE HALL OF FAME IN THE EXECUTIVE CATEGORY.

A NATIVE OF COLONIAL HEIGHTS, VIRGINIA, ELLIS WAS NAMED AS AREA DIRECTOR IN VIRGINIA IN 1970. HE ASSUMED THE NATIONAL SECRETARY-TREASURER DUTIES THAT SAME YEAR. IN 1971 ELLIS WAS APPOINTED TO THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE ASSOCIATION. HIS STRONG PERFORMANCE AS EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS ASSET TO THE SUCCESSFUL OPERATION OF THE USSSA.

ELLIS SERVED AS SECRETARY-TREASURER UNTIL 1979 WHEN GROWTH OF THE ASSOCIATION NECESSITATED A DIVISION OF THE POSITIONS. ELLIS WAS HEN NAMED CONTROLLER OF THE USSSA.

IN 1981, ELLIS WAS ALSO ELECTED TO A TWO YEAR TERM AS PRESIDENT OF THE USSSA.

ELLIS, WHO SERVED ON NUMEROUS MAJOR COMMITTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION, MANY OF WHICH HE WAS CHAIRMAN, HAS BEEN ONE OF THE STRONGEST COMMITTEE PERFORMERS THE ASSOCIATION HAS EVER HAD.

ELLIS RECEIVED THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD IN 1977 FOR HIS OUTSTANDING WORK.