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Happy New Year! - Scholarships and New Officers

  • 1.  Happy New Year! - Scholarships and New Officers

    Posted 12-22-2025 15:20

    Hello All, 

    As the holidays are upon us, I want to wish everyone a happy and prosperous new year!

    If you have not done so already, please submit your essay to be considered for our district scholarship to one of the MBAA Courses. Email one page of why you are interested and how you think it will benefit your career and community to mysef. 

    With the new year comes new officers for our Southern California district, along with the new website and new national officers. Before introducing your new officers, I want to first thank Frank Bezbatchenko for everything he has done for this district over the last decade, including keeping it alive during Covid. Cheers, Frank! Everyone should but him a beer when they see him. 

    Our new officers in Southern California: 

    Teddy Gowan Societe Board of Governors Rep teddy@societebrewing.com
    James Bruner City Brewing Irwindale President jbruner42586@gmail.com
    Dan Anderson Karl Strauss Vice President danderson7@hotmail.com
    Gavin Harper Golden Road  Secretary Gavin.Harper@goldenroad.la
    Jim Mellem City Brewing Irwindale Treasurer jmellem@citybrewery.com
    Steve Burchill Hollingbery and Sons Hops Membership Chair burchill@hollingbergandsons.com
    Katrina Bruner Anheuser-Busch LA Technical Chair katrina.kettler@gmail.com
    Victor Novak Third Window Scholarship Chair victor@thirdwindowbrewing.com
    "MJ" Mary Jane Doddridge Orange County Brewers' Guild Social Media Chair maryjanedoddridge@gmail.com

    Feel free to reach out to us with any questions and we hope to see you at the next meeting in Las Vegas on March 6-7th, if not before!

    Cheers, 



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    James Bruner, M.Sc.
    City Brewery - Irwindale, CA
    jbruner@citybrewery.com
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