Couper, Stan

Systematic competition organizer and administrator from Lorne, Victoria, Australia; co-founder of the Australian Surfriders Association (ASA) in 1963, and the group's first president. Couper was born (1923) and raised in Sydney, and began surfing in the mid-'40s. While surf filmmaker and magazine publisher Bob Evans was the key figure in the formation of the ASA, Couper contributed to virtually ...