Honorary Mayors

Honorary Mayors of Borrego Springs

Every year at the October Borrego Days Festival residents are recognized for their contributions to the community with the title of Honorary Mayor.

The following have earned this title:

2006 - 2008	Mark C. Jorgensen	picture & info
2005	Abby King	picture & info
2004	Astrid & Sam Webb	picture
2003	Bob Piva	website
2001 - 2002	Robert Cassidy		info
2000	Fred Jee	picture & info
1999	Eris Eckhart	picture & info
1998	Charlie Lusk		info
1997	Joseph & Catherine Stone		info
1996	Robie Evans	picture & info
1995	Maria Bertha & Juan Esparza
1994	Francisco & Dora Murillo
1993	Dori Holiday [4]
1992	Len Surles [3]
1991	Pat Patterson
1990	David West
1989	Ray Innocenti
1987 - 1988	Norri Bakko
1986	Bud Kuhrts		info
1985	Sam Fortiner		info
1984	Jere Hansen
1983	Virginia DeMarais [5]
1982	Dr. Floyd Woolcott		info
1981	Fernando Murad
1980	Bev Kuhrts
1979	?
1978	no mayor
1977	?
1976	?
1975	Bob DiGiorgio
1961 - 1974	Gale Gordon [2]	website
1953	Leo Carrillo [1]	picture & info

Footnotes:

[1] Leo Carrillo also served as Park Commissioner at one time.

Source: http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/21299/files/final--08appendicies.pdf

[2] Gale Gordon also served as President of the Chamber of Commerce. As Honorary Mayor, Gale Gordon, star of television’s “The Lucy Show", declared June 24, 1964, a holiday in Borrego Springs to mark completion of the Montezuma Valley Road.

[3] http://www.uoregon.edu/~army/Biographies/LenSurles.php

[4] Dori Holiday served for several years as the General Manager of La Casa del Zorro. In 2005 she was honored by the Chamber for her outstanding volunteer service to the community.

[5] Long-time resident Virginia Demarais was Borrego Springs' unofficial historian.

Links of interest related to Borrego Springs

http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7662

http://www.co.san-diego.ca.us/dpw/org/desertroads.html