October 2022 - Parks & Recreation - 12

WE ARE PARKS AND RECREATION
NRPA Welcomes Four New Members to
2022-2023 Board of Directors
E
ach year, during the NRPA Annual Conference, NRPA officially
welcomes its incoming class of board members. The NRPA Board
of Directors reflects our membership, which includes professional
and advocate leaders in the park and recreation movement; park
and recreation agencies and organizations representing the public, private,
voluntary, commercial and industrial sectors; firms supplying park and recreation
products and services; and individuals and civic groups interested
in the park, recreation, conservation, health and equity fields. This year, we
welcome four new members to the 2022-2023 NRPA Board of Directors.
Phil
Ginsburg
General
Manager, San
Francisco
Recreation
and Parks
San Francisco, California
Since
2009,
Phil
Ginsburg
has
been the general manager of the
San Francisco Recreation and Park
Department, which oversees 4,000
acres of open space and more than
225 parks in the city. Ginsburg's
focus has been on equitable park
access. In 2018, San Francisco became
the first city in the country
where 100 percent of residents live
within a 10-minute walk of a park.
In 2019, Ginsburg was appointed
to the State Parks Commission
by Governor Gavin Newsom. He
serves as a national board member
on the City Parks Alliance, a national
urban parks advocacy organization;
sits on the Parks Recovery
Task Force for NRPA; and is a
founding co-chair of San Francisco
Children and Nature. Ginsburg
also coaches the mighty Bayview
United Soccer Club, San Francisco's
first free public soccer club for
Bayview youth.
John Prue,
CPRP
Morale, Welfare
and Recreation
Program
Analyst, Navy
Region Mid-Atlantic
Kenosha, Wisconsin
John Prue, CPRP, is the Morale,
Welfare and Recreation (MWR)
program analyst for Navy Region
Mid-Atlantic. In direct support of
the fleet readiness director (N92),
Prue conducts analytical and evaluative
duties to assess the overall
effectiveness of MWR programs
at 14 installations and additional
annex sites across a nine-state area.
Previously, Prue served as the installation
program director for the
MWR Department at Naval Station
Great Lakes. As the chief administrator
for the commanding officer,
he assured a comprehensive qualityof-life
program
for
more
than
25,000 Navy personnel, their family
members, retirees and other eligible
patrons. He had management
oversight of an organization that
had more than 20 different facilities
and programs that included general
recreation, sports and fitness, community
activities, child and youth
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services, a lodging/hospitality program,
entertainment clubs, restaurants
and other revenue-producing
business activities. In 2012, Prue's
MWR team received the coveted
National Gold Medal Award and
was the first-ever military installation
to win this award. In 2017,
Prue also served as a special assistant
to the Department of Defense
(DoD) Warrior Games, supporting
the
coordination,
planning
and sponsorship for a nine-day
Paralympic-style
adaptive sports
competition in City of Chicago.
The DoD Warrior Games played
host to 265 wounded warriors from
all branches of the armed services,
including athletes from the United
Kingdom and Australia. In September
2020, Prue retired from
Naval Station Great Lakes after 34
years of service.
Prue has been an active member
of NRPA and the Armed Forces
Recreation Network, speaking at
numerous conferences, contributing
to Parks & Recreation magazine,
serving on the NRPA Conference
Program Committee for eight years
and as the committee chairperson in
2020. He also is an elected member
of the American Academy for Park
and Recreation Administration.
Prue holds a bachelor's degree
in recreation administration from
the University
of Wisconsin-La
Crosse and a master's degree in
management from Webster University,
St. Louis, Missouri. He
has received numerous individual
awards, including the Department
of the Navy's Meritorious Civil
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