Charles E. Vasoll elected APTA President (1988-1992)

Vasoll was a platform tennis fanatic, as was confirmed by his vanity automobile license plate, “P T NUT,” and the frame around it that read, “I’m crazy about platform tennis.”

After only one year on the APTA Board of Directors, he was tapped to be the Association’s President.

He had retired when a large New York City bank bought the community bank for which he worked, and he was able to devote many hours to his new “job.” He commuted from Long Island to the APTA office in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

Vasoll was the first President to serve four years since Fessenden Blanchard in 1934-38. After his term as President, he continued to serve on the Board until 2001. In 2002, he chaired the National Championships on Long Island.

He was active in the publishing of the APTA newsletter, Platform Tennis News, and had a web site, PlatformTennisNews.com for five years after retiring from the Board.

When President, he started a merchandising program with the APTA logo on clothing, coffee mugs, pens, clocks, etc., and, after an absence of twelve years, in 1992, reinstated the Honor Award, later to be renamed Hall of Fame, with the support of Bob Brown.

Vasoll led the APTA from a period of corporate insolvency to the threshold of breaking the $100,000.00 equity position.

His achievements were even more monumental when one considers that his administrative successes were coupled with both a qualitative and quantitative increase in paddle competition.

Source: Platform Tennis News, Summer 1988 & Summer 1994