The WINNIE GATORS 2011 State Club Officers

2nd VICE-PRESIDENT: Ted & Janis Fumia
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     Ted, a native of Massachusetts, has been an executive in the Restaurant Franchising industry for many years and is currently searching for a new opportunity.  During his career we have lived in Colorado, Michigan, California and for the last 6 years in Florida.  Janis is a native of California where we met and married 30 years ago.  Janis is a former Bookkeeper, Property Manager and worked for the School Department in California as a special education coordinator and presently the President of her own commercial cleaning company in Tampa.

     We are the proud parents of Christina, our 26 year old daughter, who resides in southern California and Zoey, our 2 year old Shih-Tzu, who has won blue ribbons at the last two rallies.

     We began tent camping and water skiing 30 years ago at many of the beautiful lakes in California.  In 2002 we purchased our first RV, a used SOB, then a new SOB several months later.  We upgraded to our 2006 Suncruiser late in 2006 and have really enjoyed being involved with the Winnie Gators, Sunshine Winnies and especially the Buccaneer Winnies where Ted is the VP and Janis is the Treasurer.  We have made many new friends and look forward to serving as 2nd VP of the Winnie Gators.

 
     Bob was born in Louisiana and Christine was born in New Jersey.   We met in a little town called Browns Mills, New Jersey while Bob was serving in the Air Force at McGuire AFB and Christine worked for the Air National Guard in the payroll department.
 
      We married in October of 1973 and moved to Douglasville, Georgia.  We have one daughter (Jennifer) who teaches 5^th grade in Thomaston, Ga.   Her family consists of her husband Lamar, daughters Karissa & Katelyn, 3 dogs, 2 cats and a quarter horse.

     Bob retired in 2002 from Delta Airlines as a Lead Mechanic and Christine retired in 2001 from the Douglas County Board Of Education Special Education Department.

     We fulltime in our 2001 Ultimate Advantage with two dogs Aggie a racing greyhound and Savannah a 5lb Yorkie.  We all reside in Sebring, Florida.
   
      We plan on traveling more in 2012 when Bob can retire again from Carter Aircraft, Inc. in Sebring, Florida.  We spend about 2 months out of the year in a little town called Lubec, Maine.  Bob has family there so we visit as often as we can.  The rest of the time is spent in sunny Florida.
 
     We enjoy getting together with both the State Club and the Caloosa Winnies.

      Walter graduated in Engineering and Business from The Pennsylvania State University, where he also served as an adjunct instructor in Engineering Management.  He spent 25 years in varied management capacities with DuPont, 20 of which were in Asia where he met and married Belinda.  Walter and Belinda retired to Hilton Head, SC in 1993.  After retirement Walter volunteered as a SCORE counselor, did management consulting, and directed the manufacturing operations of a small specialized battery company.

     We have two outstanding Daughters and Son-In-Laws, five wonderful Grandchildren, and a super four legged boy - Linus.

     We purchased our first Winnebago motor home in 1996.  We moved to Florida in 2002, and are the proud owners of our sixth Winnebago, a 2010 Adventurer 32H, and are members of the Caloosa Winnies.

     I grew up in Rochester, NY and began camping as a Girl Scout in the 1950’s. Throughout the next 40 years camping was still in my life with travel trailers, truck campers, and motorhomes. 

     After a 27 year career with Paychex, Inc. I retired in 2002. My husband Jerry and I bought our first motorhome, an SOB and spent 2 summers traveling while investigating the purchase of a Winnebago. In 2004, we bought our first Adventurer, and spent 4 summers traveling the U.S. and Canada. In December, 2008 we bought our current Adventurer 38J and traveled with the WIT Caravan to Alaska and the Yukon.

     Nancy is looking forward to keeping the traditions of the Winnie Gators Club moving forward with the support of the members.