Frank Barbieri, 1st Vice President
Frank was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. During his 11 years serving the community as a police officer, he earned a B.A. and a law degree at the University of Akron before moving to Boca Raton in 1984. The grandson of four immigrants from Italy, he was the first person in his state-side family to receive a college education. Frank has been incredibly active for many years in West Boca schools, culminating in his 2008 election to the Palm Beach County School Board. Prior to that election, he served on the Palm Beach County Zoning Commission for nearly two decades, most recently as its Chairperson. Until early 2009, he was the sole President in Loggers’ Run history since Oriole Homes turned the community over to homeowners in 1987. As a longtime member of the West Boca Community Council’s Board, he has been a driving force in many important causes embraced by the Council, including the founding of West Boca High School, stopping the extension of University Drive, and naming Judge Winikoff Road, to mention only a few. He recently joined Sachs Sax Caplan, one of the premier law firms in our area.
Tom Berger, Director
Tom moved to the city of Boca Raton from Cleveland when he was nine years old. After attending Tulane University, he went to the University of Florida, where he received his law degree. He and wife Marcy married in 1992, settled in West Boca and now have three children. Tom is a partner at Flanagan, Maniotis and Berger, specializing in civil defense litigation. He serves on the Palm Beach School Board Construction Oversight Review Committee, has been active in opposing the extension of Broward’s University Drive through West Boca, is involved in area parks and youth sports, and has been a member of the West Boca Community Council since 2002.
Milton Brenner, Chairman Emeritus/Director
Milton is the longest-serving member of the Council’s Board of Directors. He succeeded its legendary founder Fran Reich as President for seven years. He also serves on the Solid Waste Advisory Council and the Library Advisory Board. A native of Brooklyn, he moved to Boca Raton in 1983 after retiring from a 33-year career in the silk screening business. He served in the Army Air Force and flew many combat missions in the Pacific theater during World War II. He has been married to Gloria for over 60 years, with whom he shares two children and three grandchildren.
Pete Capellani, Director
Pete has been active in the West Boca Community Council since 1987, and even longer in the homeowners association where he lives. Upon retiring from the air conditioning business in 1983, he moved from Chicago to Florida, where he owns and operates a pool maintenance business. He has been married to Joan for over 50 years, with whom he has four children, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Louis Caplan, Director
Lou is a Director and Chair of the Community Association and Country Clubs Practice Group at Sachs Sax Caplan, where he became a named partner in 2008. He specializes in community association law, representing condominium and homeowners associations throughout South Florida. Lou is a frequent lecturer and columnist
on community association matters, contributing to the Palm Beach County Bar Association, the West Boca Community Council and the Community Associations
Institute.
Lisa Gainsborg, Treasurer
Lisa was elected to the Council in 2008 and days later became its Treasurer. She was certified as a CPA in 1990, and has spent the last two decades as an accountant for a variety of corporations and organizations in both the public and private sector. She grew up in Maryland and on Long Island, where she graduated from Hofstra University in the late 1980s. Lisa moved to Florida several years later. She has been the president of A+ Accounting Services since 2003.
Arthur Charwat, Director
A native of Manhattan, Arthur rounded off his education at New York University and the Wharton School of Business. He then had a long career at United Merchandising Manufacturers where, as Vice President, he oversaw 100 million dollars in textile sales annually. He is currently President of Pepper Tree III and President of the Pepper Tree Master Committee in Boca West, in addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the West Boca Community Council since 2006.
Alan Grubow, Vice President/Secretary
Al and his wife Leda relocated to Florida in 1985. He served as President of Boca Chase for nearly a decade. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the West Boca Community Council in 2001. On behalf of the Council he helped monitor the widening of 441, instigated the building of the playground near Pinewoods Park and has been on the front line of many other causes for the residents of West Boca. Al has long worked with the Delray Alliance of Residential Associations and the Coalition of Boynton West Residential Associations to encourage revision of state laws regarding homeowner and condo associations. He is currently working with the Parks Department to get a skateboard park built in Logger’s Run Park. Al is also a member of the Community Association Institute’s Board of Directors.
Alan Kellock, Director
As one of the Council’s newest members after joining the Board in 2008, Alan chairs its Communications Committee. He gave up a career as a professor of African and African-American history to follow several generations of family members into the publishing business. After holding various positions at McGraw-Hill and Harcourt Brace, he became President and CEO of Penguin USA. He served as Secretary and President of his homeowner association in Manhattan, and has been similarly active in the West Boca community where he and his wife Loren settled in 2000.
Marvin Manning, Director
Marvin is a past President of the Century Village umbrella association and continues to serve as President of the Yarmouth association. He is also President of the Century Village Democratic Club. When he first moved to Florida in the mid-1980s, he served as President of the Sunny Isles HOA before moving to West Boca. He hails from Warren, Ohio, graduated from Ohio State, served in the Navy during World War II, and eventually settled in New York after marrying Edith in 1955. He retired in 1978 as the CFO of a jewelry casting company and devoted the next six years to volunteer work in the area before heading south. He’s been a member of the Council’s Board of Directors since 2007, and has been a forceful advocate on a variety of issues concerning South Florida.
J. C. Perrin, Director
J.C. relocated to Palm Beach County in 1985 from Morgantown, WV. A 1981 cum laude graduate of West Virginia University, he has served the banking needs of individuals, families, and businesses in South Florida for the past 23 years and is currently a Senior Private Banker with J.P.Morgan. J.C. was elected to the Board of Directors of the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce in 1995 where he served as Chairman in 2000-01 and was named the Chamber’s 2006 Business Leader of the Year. He serves as Chairman of the Chamber’s Golden Bell Education Foundation and Chairman of the Community Academy Advisory Board at West Boca Raton Community High School. He has been a mentor at Olympic Heights High School and a volunteer for the George Snow Scholarship Foundation. J.C. also serves on the Governing Board of West Boca Medical Center and on the Board of Directors at the Mae Volen Senior Center. He resides in Saturnia with his wife Pamela and their three children. When not spending time with his family, J.C. enjoys any type of sports and history.
Paul Pontrelli, Director
Paul served in the New York City Department of Correction for 23 years until his retirement in 1995, whereupon he moved to Boca Winds. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Boca Winds HOA since 1999. Since 2003 he has served as its Vice President, then President, and currently Treasurer. He was elected to the Council’s Board of Directors in April, 2009 as the Representative from Bay Winds, the umbrella HOA for Boca Winds, Boca Falls and Ashley Park.
Nick Rongione, Director
A native of Philadelphia who graduated from LaSalle University with a degree in political science, Nick has been a resident of West Boca since 1991. After 30 years in retailing, much of it with Target, he now works as an Account Executive for an apparel company and as a consultant to women’s apparel boutiques throughout Florida. In 2007 he joined the Council’s Board of Directors, which has since benefited from his relationships with numerous government leaders. Nick is a past Executive Vice President of the LaSalle University Alumni Association, and currently is a Director of LaSalle's Florida Chapter. He has been married to Barbara for 30 years, with whom he has three children.
Sheri A. Scarborough, President
Originally from Boardman, Ohio, Sheri moved to South Florida in 1980 after attending Kent State University. She married William "Carroll" Scarborough, with whom she has three sons. Sheri became active in her community when her children started school at Whispering Pines Elementary School, beginning with the school’s PTA. As a licensed community association manager, Sheri often found herself dealing with Palm Beach County to resolve community issues, in the course of which she got to know WBCC’s legendary founder Fran Reich. At Fran’s urging, Sheri joined the Board of Directors of the WBCC in 1993, on which she has served ever since. She has been the President of the Council since 2002. She also serves on the Palm Beach County Zoning Commission. She’s a past President of the homeowners association in her own community, and is Vice President of Business Development at the Prime Management Group.
Ellen Winikoff, Director
Ellen has served on the WBCC Board of Directors since 2003 and currently chairs its Program Committee. A Cleveland native and graduate of Boston University, she moved to Logger’s Run in 1984. She is a Library/Media Specialist at Sunrise Park Elementary and has served on the PBC Library Advisory Board for 15 years, currently as Vice Chairperson. Ellen has also been an adjunct instructor at Nova and Lynn University. She is the widow of the late Jeffrey Winikoff, who was the Council’s third President until his election as Palm Beach Circuit Judge in 2002.
