Westlake Yacht Club in the News

Conejo Valley Life, Jan 28, 2005 Westlake Yacht Club's Wilma Rosenberg takes regional helm On January 7th, Wilma Rosenberg was installed as Commodore of the Association of Santa Monica Bay Yacht Clubs (ASMBYC). ASMBYC was founded in 1962 and now has fifteen member and associate member yacht clubs. For those without a nautical chart (maps are for freeways), Santa Monica Bay stretches from Malibu to Redondo Beach. Wilma lives in Westlake Village and has been a member of Westlake Yacht Club (WYC) for thirty years. She worked her way up the ranks, served as WYC Commodore in 1998 and is now a Staff Commodore. Under Wilma's enthusiastic command, WYC was selected as Senior Club of the Year for 1998 by the Southern California Yachting Association. Giving the keynote speech at Wilma's installation was Paul Artof, a past commodore of both WYC and ASMBYC. Paul was in rare form after returning from "drydock", and gave a great performance. He concluded with a cell phone call from God, who conveyed through Paul His good wishes and His confidence in Wilma. No doubt Paul will be getting quite a long distance bill. Also honored by ASMBYC was WYC's Junior Commodore, 16-year old Sean Mula, who received the Diane Armstrong award for outstanding junior sailor. Sean lives in Westlake Village and is a sophomore at Westlake High School. Sean is the lead skipper of WHS's intramural sailing team, which is coached by Joe Sorosky of Agoura Hills and sponsored by WYC. Sean is being considered for the prestigious ZISA training program at the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club, where world-class sailors from the America's Cup races and the Olympic Games coach our future U.S. champions. Sean is never far from blue water and white canvas. Helping Wilma and Sean celebrate were Wilma's daughter Michelle Rosenberg, a law school graduate living in Westlake Village, and Sean's father Richard Mula, an airport lighting systems engineer with Honeywell. Also joining in the festivities and cheering for Wilma and Sean were WYC Commodore Mike Singer and his wife Penny, Rear Commodore Robert Piccioni and his wife Joan, Junior Staff Commodore Roger Weisman and his wife Trudy, Treasurer Walt Jefford and his wife Georgia, Director Ann Nelson, and Staff Commodores Paul and Sue Artof. After seeing what she did for WYC, we're sure that under Wilma, great things lie dead ahead for ASMBYC. But if the ASMBYC folks think she's going to let them coast, they'd better watch their sterns. -- Robert Piccioni, Rear Commodore