John Van Oeffelen "Frog" 2011 Honor Roll
Hole in the Wall Gang Team Member Inductee and Team Captain

PHOTO: John Van Oeffelen team colors and Gordie Surfboard.
Nickname: Frog
Born: Santa Ana, California 1944
- 1954: Started skim boarding & belly boarding, age 10
- 1957: Started surfing at the age of 13 years old
- 1962: Graduated from Huntington Beach High School
- 1960-1963: Started surfing on Gordie Exhibition Team
- 1963-1966: Surfed United States Championship
- 1964: Joined and competed in the Long Beach Surf Club
- 1960-1970: Surfed USSC Competitor on Gordie Surf Team
- 1970-1975: Surfed WSA and NSSA Competition
- 1975-1985 Team Captain for The Hole in the Wall Gang
- 1979: HB Summer Surf Contest 1st Place Masters
- 1981-1982 NSSA Calif Open Season Senior Champion
- 1963-2001 Worked for City of HB Parks Trees & Landscape, retired after 42 years as the Operation Manager of the Parks Tree Landscape Division of the Public Works Department

PHOTO: John and mom displaying "head ding", 1957.

PHOTO: Frog with Chris Hawk in International Surfing Museum, HB.

PHOTO: 1957 Huntington Beach skimming in PCH and Beach Blvd.

PHOTO: When the daily 11am summer surfing curfew warning blasts out from lifeguard station zero on the pier, three young surfers demonstrated...L to R Johnny "Frog" Van Oeffelen, Johnny "Hot Dog" Boozer and Chuck "Profile" Dent. Archive photo, HB News Photo.
PHOTO: Frog with Dale Velzy.

PHOTO: Frog, left with Gordie Team Riders.
PHOTO: John modeled for Auto and Motor Sports Illustrated Cover May 1964 issue with Gordie Surf Board.

PHOTO: Frog at Huntington Beach Pier.

PHOTO: John Lyman photo of Frog Southside Huntington Beach Pier.