John Silverstrim joined the LCBA Board of Directors during the 1995-96 season and has been a board member ever since.  He was President of the Association from 2014 to 2016.  From 1999 to the present, John served on the Hall of Fame Banquet Committee, almost always as Chairperson, where he was highly involved with every aspect of producing a successful Banquet, including putting together the Banquet Program Book, including all the write-ups.

In the early 2000’s, Silverstrim took on the unofficial position of Association Historian, and worked at updating and enhancing the Association history, including setting up displays at every Banquet.  Upon discovering that there was no write-up for any male Hall of Famer inducted before 1992, John researched all of those inductees, and produced a write-up for each one in order to prevent their achievements from becoming lost to history.

Silverstrim was chairperson of the joint LCBA /WWBA committee for the 2002 State Mixed Tournament, and worked in several State Tournaments thereafter.  He served as Director of several County Association Tournaments around 2005 when squad prizes and special performance awards were donated by local businesses.  During the 2017-18 season, Silverstrim was appointed the Chairperson of the transition committee which was responsible for producing a smooth merger of the LCBA, WWBC and local YBA into the new USBC-mandated, merged Lycoming County USBC Association for the 2018-19 season.

John started his bowling career at the age of 4 in the early 1950’s, when his father drilled 3 holes in a duck-pin ball, so that John and his brother could bowl against the ten pins at the YMCA, long before the advent of automatic pinsetters, light-weight balls, and bumper bowling.  After living out of town for 20 years, he returned to Williamsport in 1986.  John has a high career series of 734 and a high career game of 290.  During the 1987-88 season, he achieved his high career average of 202.  Silverstrim participated in 36 ABC National Open Tournaments, including the 1999 Tournament in Syracuse, where he hit 700 on the nose, in the singles event.