TAMPA, Fla. The board of the United Motorcoach Association gained two new members at the conclusion of UMA Motorcoach Expo here last month and elected two new members to its executive committee.

The new UMA board members elected to three-year terms were:

Dennis Streif of Gray Line of St. Louis and Vandalia Bus Lines of Caseyville, Ill. He was elected from UMA Region I and will help represent operators from California to Missouri and from Texas to Montana.

Tom Foley of Transportation Insurance Brokers of North Oaks, Minn. He is the boards new associate members representative.

Re-elected to the board during active membership voting late last year were Larry Benjamin of Northfield Lines in Minnesota (Region I), Dave Bolen of New World Tours in Virginia (Region II), James Brown Sr. of Magic Carpet Tours of Virginia (Region II), Steve Brown of Brown Coach in New York (Region III) and Mike Neustadt of Coach Tours in Connecticut (Region III). All were elected to three-year terms.

During its organizational session, the board elected two replacement members to its executive committee.

Board member Brian Annett of Annett Bus Lines in Sebring, Fla., was elected UMA treasurer, succeeding Dave Bolen.

And board member Marcia Milton of First Priority Trailways in District Heights, Md., was elected secretary, succeeding Jeff Polzien of Red Carpet Charters in Oklahoma City, who did not stand for re-election to the board.

New UMA director Dennis Streif is a second-generation member of a family that has been offering bus services since the early 1960s.

Streifs father had been operating school buses for a dozen years when he purchased Vandalia Bus Lines in 1975. Vandalia will mark its 80th year in business next year, with more than 35 of those years under the ownership of the Streif family.

Vandalia, with a fleet of 67 buses, is the largest private operator in metro St. Louis, a member of the International Motor Coach Group, and the exclusive motorcoach transporter for the St. Louis Rams, St. Louis Cardinals, and most visiting NFL, NHL and MLB teams.

Tom Foley has been involved in the motorcoach industry as an insurance vendor for 24 years.

His industry career began when UBOA (now UMA) endorsed the insurance carrier Foley was working for, Progressive Insurance. For the past 19 years, he has been a regional vice president with Transportation Insurance Brokers.

He holds a bachelors degree from St. Johns University (Minn.) and has attended 23 consecutive UMA Motorcoach Expos.

As the boards non-coachbuilder vendor representative Foley succeeds Michelle Silvestro of National Interstate Insurance.

The UMA board thanked Silvestro and Polzien for their distinguished service to the association and the board.

Nineteen members of the 21-member UMA board are regional directors who must be coach operators and who are chosen - in contested elections -- to three-year staggered terms from three regions of the U.S., plus a single director elected from Canada. In addition, the board has one non-coachbuilder associate representative and one coachbuilder associate.

Directors serve without pay but the association generally reimburses directors for travel and accommodations while performing UMA business and/or attending association meetings.

Associate members attending UMA Motorcoach Expo here last month picked Foley as the non-coachbuilder associate board representative.