History
In 1943, the building that currently houses the Lancaster Tennis and Yacht Club at 2615 Columbia Ave was a barn on a working farm. That year a group of horsemen and women bought the twenty-acre farm and formed the Lancaster Riding Club.
A few years earlier, in 1939, a group of tennis players had formed the Lancaster Tennis Club, building six clay courts on a site near Boas Fruit Market on Columbia Avenue.
The newly formed Riding Club built a bar downstairs below the present dining room while continuing to use the upstairs as stables for the horses. During the spring and fall of 1946, nationally sanctioned horse shows were held on the grounds. These shows became a very popular yearly event.
In 1950, the bar, dining room, and kitchen moved upstairs to their present location. The rather modest size of the Riding Club membership however, made it difficult to support the dining room.
The Tennis Club on the other hand, had no dining facilities. So in 1965 the two clubs merged, forming the Lancaster County Riding and Tennis Club. The clay court property was sold and six Har Tru courts were built on the Riding Club grounds. In those days only private clubs were able to serve alcohol on Sundays. That, plus the new tennis members, helped the dining room and bar flourish.
A devastating fire in 1968 destroyed the Club's new cement block barn. Almost all of the horses were lost in this tragic fire. This may well have caused the gradual change in the make-up of our club as it transformed itself into primarily a tennis and social club.
In 1986 a locally based Yacht Club, registered with Lloyds of London, merged with our club. We became what we are today - The Lancaster Tennis and Yacht Club. Now all of our members, through reciprocity, are welcome as guests at over 800 Yacht Clubs all over America.
Officers and Board Members:
Board Members as of January Annual Meeting.
President JEFF PETERS (717) 898-8857 jpeters@rjwindustrial.com
Vice President BOB LONGO (717)-665-7183 koda@pptnet.com
& Commodore
Secretary & KRISTA JENKINS, (717) 684-7033 corpshq@netzero.com
House Co-Chair or Krista.Jenkins@RRD.com
(Bar & Restaurant)
Treasurer FRED LEINHEISER (717) 840-9530 fleinhei@ycp.edu
Tennis Co-Chairs CHERYL CHAMPION, (717) 626-1274 cchampion@lebanon.k12.pa.us
Tennis Co-Chair BOB
LONGO (717)-665-7183 koda@pptnet.com
House Co-Chair
(Restaurant & Bar)
Marketing ADAIR WITMER (717) 560-294 adairwithmer@gmail.com
Grounds, GREGG STAUFFER 717-684-5221 gstauff@comcast.net
All Outside Maint.
Social Chair DES St CLAIR (717)- 285-5000 avalondes@comcast.net
House Co-Chair BETH GOOD (717)-870-6859 bgood24@aoll.com
Communications JOHN IRWIN jwirwin@epix.net
Non Board Member Positions
Chef Dennis McCullough
Restaurant/Banquet Arrangements Maggie St. Clair 717.330.3998
Director of Tennis Dick Green (717 ) 560-1495 (H) tnsrtgreen@aol.com
(717) 560 1495 (H)
(717) 413 7465 ©
Webmaster Bob Nickey bobnickeylns@verizon.net
Committees
Marketing Committee
Adair Witmer adair@thinkspencer.com
adair@aol.com
Social Committee
Des St.Clair AvalonDes@comcast.net