“SILVA ELECTED PRESIDENT OF TUNABOAT MEN – Mr. EDWARD P. SILVA, owner of the tuna clipper ‘SANTA ROSA’, will serve as President of the AMERICAN TUNABOAT ASSOCIATION next year (1956). He was elected by the association’s new Board of Directors at a meeting Wednesday. Other new officers are FRANK GONSALVES JR., Vice-President; CARL O. MEDINA, Secretary, and Arthur DeFever, Treasurer.
The Board of Directors, elected earlier this month, includes: GEORGE ALAMEDA, Wade Ambrose, FRANK BRENHA, Sam Crivello, JOAQUIN CANAS, Mr. DeFever, Mr. Gonsalves, Luigi Guidi, O. J. Hall Jr., Sverre Jangaard, JOSEPH MADRUGA, RALPH MADRUGA, Stefano Massa, Mr. Carl MEDINA, JOAQUIN MEDINA, M. O. MEDINA, MANUEL NEVES, JOSEPH PENACHO, FRANK M. PERRY, JOAQUIN QUALIN, JOSEPH S. ROGERS, F. W. Szalinski, Louis Vattuone, and John Zolezzi.”
(*Source: San Diego UNION & Daily Bee newspaper – Saturday, December 31, 1955 – Pg. 19)