The Lake County Metropolitan Park District was established under Chapter 1545, Ohio Revised Code in December 1958. Richard C. Lux, F. Carlisle Foster and Elmer M. Stark were appointed to the first Board of Park Commissioners by Probate Judge J. Frank Pollack in March 1959. Later that year, the donation of land that became Helen Hazen Wyman Park was accepted from William Wyman and became the first park in the district. Chapter 1545 gave the park board the capacity to appoint a Citizen Advisory Committee to advise them in affairs concerning the park district and assist with programs. Like the park board, members of this committee served without pay. The following is a list of members of the original Citizen Advisory Committee in 1959, listed by the community they represented:
Willowick
Mr. William Gutbrod
Eastlake
Mr. Edwin S. Connor
Mrs. Elmer L. Strauss
Willoughby Hills
Mrs. C.W. Tyler
Mr. Zophar P. Warner
Willoughby
Mr. J.D. Mooney
Mrs. G.J. Pierce
Kirtland Hills
Mrs. John Murray
Waite Hill
Mrs. Joseph H. Thompson
Mentor-on the-Lake
Mr. William H. Ramsey
Mentor
Mr. Richard H. Hustin
Mr. Ernest Evans
Mr. P. Pasini
Mentor Township
Mrs. Oliver Bolton
Mrs. M. Henricle
Mr. Hubert A. Horton
Concord Township
Mrs. Ray Dyer
Mrs. Hubert Rust
Mr. William H. Wyman
Leroy
Mrs. Shirley Seymour
Mr. Jesse E. Woods
Painesville City
Mr. J. Edward Anderson
Mrs. Robert Booth
Mr. Clarence L. Goddard
Mr. E.H. Hawley Jr.
Mrs. Loomis Laird
Mr. Robert L. Simmons (Chairman)
Mr. Louis Whitman
Painesville Township
Mrs. Thomas H. Blakely
Mr. Charles S. Brand
Mrs. Ben Fisher
Mr. William A. Mackey, Jr.
Mr. Joseph E. Sarosy
Grand River
Mr. Donald C. Strock
Perry
Miss Dorothy M. Baley
Madison
Mrs. George Ham
Mrs. Gordon W. Hasse
Mr. Karl Staley
Mrs. Edward Taubert (Secretary)
Fairport Harbor
Mr. John Killinen
Mr. Carl Williams
Kirtland
Mrs. Wilfred W. Buchtman
Mr. Fred Leustig
Wickliffe
Mr. George A. Schwarzenberg
