Rudy Huber
1967: ESA officially forms when NJ's Cecil Lear, CT's Rudy Huber and USSA Director Hoppy Swartz of CA organize the loose bands of contest organizers into a single association, placing seven districts from New England to Alabama.
Rudy Huber
Rudy Huber, a jet setting trust fund baby from Connecticut with connections to the world of international surfing got together to plot out the creation of what would come to be the largest and longest lived amateur surfing body, the Eastern Surfing Association. Backed by Hoppy Swarts, the "Duke" of competitive amateur surfing in America, and at a time when the dissolution of the original U.S. Surfing Association threatened to destroy the only coherent amateur surfing program in the U.S., Cecil and Rudy conceived the basic outline of an East Coast-based, East Coast-run surfing organization that would unite what were then a scattered group of little independent surfing "fiefdoms" which were emerging at that time up and down the East Coast.