M a r y l a n d C o m b i n e d T r a i n i n g A s s o c i a t i o n

PRESIDENTS

1972-73 Charles (“Bucky”) Laubach

1974-75 Ron Scornavacca

/ Ron was a member of a junior cavalry troop while growing up in New Jersey and became a Pony Club national examiner and AHSA (now USEF) hunter/jumper/equitation judge. Dental school and practice brought him to Maryland, where he was a natural to become a founding member of MCTA and its second president. He was instrumental in virtually all of MCTA’s initial undertakings.

1976-77 George Roveti

1978-79 Walter Reynolds

When Walter was MCTA president
he had just begun eventing at the
Novice level. Here he rides Distant
Fire in the first phase of the Radnor
Preliminary 3-day in 1991, and by
the time he retired from competi-
tion in 2003 he was riding at the
3-star level at Fair Hill.
DBA sport photo /

1980-81 Jeanie Gore


/ Jeanie rode at the very first MCTA
event in 1972. She had progressed
considerably by 2000, when she and
Run Around Sue leaped into the wa-
ter at the Virginia Horse Trials held
that November at the Virginia Horse
Center in Lexington. She remains a
very active competitor and volunteer.

1982-84 Walter (“Bope”) Doelle

1985-86 Lynn Richardson

1987-88 Gretchen and Robert Butts

/ After completing both Rolex (twice) and Burghley as a com-petitor, Gretchen is now often seen around events in official capacities—as here, judging at the 2010 American Eventing Championships in GA. Pictured showing his latest creations to a TD, Robert has always been best known as a cross country course builder and, over the past 30+ years, has transformed his family’s Waredaca farm into a major U.S. eventing venue.
Katherine Rizzo / Equiery photos /

1989-90 Dana Bright

After eventing through Prelim Dana and
her event horse tried their hands at com-
bined driving, which soon became her
main equestrian focus. Here she is
driving a unicorn at the Devon Horse
Show in 2004. The leader is her Welsh
stallion Severn Jolly Cabello and the
wheelers are two of his get, homebred
full siblings Cubbyhole Kestrel and
Cubbyhole Osprey.
Bob Moseder photo
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1991-92 Jean Prescott [Gerschefski]

Jean with a current equine partner.
After volunteering in many capa-
cities and competing through Pre-
lim she now finds that the “real
world” impinges far too often, but
she still events whenever she can.
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1993-94 Gail Winn

1995-96 Elice Shelton and Robin Newman

1997-98 Kathy Rogers

1999-2002 Jamie Maher

Jamie and her 3rd generation homebred Widow’s Walk—appropriately (for an event horse) descended from a U.S. Cavalry remount mare—at the Millbrook Horse Trials in 1993. A long-time competitor, Jamie is an equally long-time volunteer. Starting as a junior her roles have included organizer, course designer, safety officer, and just about anything else there is to do at an event.
Terri Miller photo /

2003-04 Eileen Pritchard-Bryan

2005-08 Connie Bison

/ Connie and Nina Gardner’s Little Bits
(“Bitsy”) at the Redland Pony Club
event in 1985. For years Connie has
also put her college marketing major
to work for MCTA by starting the si-
lent auction at the annual banquet and
procuring countless donated prizes,
not to mention also serving as MCTA
secretary and treasurer
Michael Brouphy photo

2009-13 Chris McKay Donovan

/ Chris and friend grooming for Paula Turner at
a rainy Radnor 3-Day during her high school
years. As the daughter of one of MCTA’s
most involved founders she has literally been
an event volunteer all her life and currently
heads up the USEA Area 2 Young Riders Ad-vancement Program as well as MCTA. And oh
yes, she does occasionally still have time to
ride and compete!
Cappy Jackson photo

2014-2015 Toni Marie Woods

2016-2017 Mardi Herman

2018-2019 Julie Abe