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is published by the Greenkeepers Club of N e w England, a n d sent

free to its members a n d their Green's Chairmen.

Subscription price' one dollar per year.

HENRY C. MITCHELL, Editor
89 Peach Street, Walpole, Mass.
EDWARD N. M U R P H Y , Business Manager, 2 Buck Street, Woburn, Mass.
J A C K COUNSELL, Associate Editor, 5 Ellsworth Road, Peabody, Mass.
January,

1942

Vol.

14, No. 1

The ideas and opinions expressed in the subject matter of this
NEWSLETTER
are not necessarily those of the Editor or the members of the club as a whole.
CONTENTS
Annual

Meeting

.

President's Report for

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1941

December

Meeting

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5

Continued

Article

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Greenkeeper's

Superintendent's

Association

GREENKEEPERS'

CLUB

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OFFICERS

SAMUEL S . MITCHELL, President, Ponkapoag Golf Club, Canton, Mass.
P H I L I P I. CASSIDY, Secretary, Needham Golf Club, Needham, Mass.
F R A N K H. W I L S O N , JR., Treasurer, 5 4 3 Dedham Street, Newton Centre, Mass.
N. J . SPERANDIO, Chairman Entertainment Committee, Marlboro Country Club,
JOHN
ALEX

Marlboro, Mass.
COUNSELL, Chairman Welfare Committee, Salem Country Club, Peabody, Mass.
ARTHUR ANDERSON, Chairman Employment
Committee
Brae Burn Country Club, West Newton, Mass.
OHLSON, Chairman Golf Committee, Lexington Country Club, Lexington, Mass.

ANNUAL MEETING
T h e A n n u a l M e e t i n g was held at
Steuben's on Boylston Street, Boston, J a n u a r y 5, 1942.
T h e officers and committees reported on their activities for the
year and the reports were accepted
as read.
T h e officers and
committees
elected for 1942 are: president,
Samuel S. M i t c h e l l ; first vicepresident, George Rommel I; second
vice-president, Homer C. Darling;
third vice-president, Paul
Wanberg; secretary, Phillip I. Cassidy:
treasurer, Frank W i l s o n ; trustee
for three years, Harold Mosher;
chairman entertainment committee, N\ J . Sperandio; chairman
golf committee, A l e x Ohlson; auditing committee, J o h n Clinton and
Alfred Smith.
President S a m Mitchell, Secretary Phil Cassidy, Treasurer Frank
W i l s o n and George Rommel I, the
retiring Editor and Business Manager of the Newsletter, were each
given a rising vote of thanks for
the service they have rendered the
club.
It w a s voted to send a letter of
appreciation to Director Ray Koon
for the use of the W a l t h a m Field
Station as a meeting place during
the past year.
It was voted to buy four one
hundred dollar defense bonds, the
money to be taken from the trustee fund.
T h e proposed amendment to the
Constitution, that the Club change
its name to T h e N e w
England
Greenkeeping Superintendents Association, w a s tabled because of
lack of time for discussion before
dinner. This will probably be acted

upon a t the regular February meeting.
The social part of the evening,
in which the ladies participated,
w a s a decided success. A very fine
dinner and an excellent floor show
were enjoyed by those present. T h e
maestro presented a special number, " G o d Bless A m e r i c a " for the
Greenkeepers Club in appreciation
of their vote to purchase defense
bonds. T h e recently married Narry
and Phyllis Sperandio were also
honored by the rendition of an appropriate musical interpretation.
Following the floor show dancing was enjoyed by the members
and guests.
Some of the highlights on the dance floor w e r e :
M r . and Mrs. Paul W a n b e r g in a
stiff-armed, stiff-kneed specialty
dance known as the Swedish Sway;
Mrs. Phillip Cassidy's fine interpretation of "Bumps-a-Daisy" although handicapped w i t h a ludicrous and unskilled partner; and a
weaving, w a v i n g , wandering, w a r
dance called the " C o n g a " by the
entire party.
J a c k Counsel!

PRESIDENT'S

REPORT FOR 1941

T h e year 1941 has been to me a
very pleasant year.
It has been a
pleasure to act as president of
T h e Greenkeepers Club of New
England for this time.
I wish to
express my appreciation to the
Board of Directors, to the various
Committees, and to the members
of the Club for the support and
cooperation I have received from
them.
T h e year 1941 saw a change in
" T h e Newsletter". Guy W e s t , who
instituted the magazine and car-

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ried it along so well for so many
years, was forced to drop his club
activities.
His place w a s ably
filled by Goerge Rommel!, who did
double duty as business manager
and editor.
The year 1941 saw difficult
conditions for golf courses to operate under.
W e had an unusually severe and protracted drought.
Along with this condition turf at
most courses was more or less damaged by white grub of the J u n e
Beetle.
Perhaps golf courses c
going to have to take this problem
into more serious consideration in
the future than has been done in
the past.
The secretary and other officers
and committees will no doubt give
you a detailed report of our club
activities for this past season, but
I do wish to especially mention the
Sectional meeting held a t Weston
Golf Club with Greenkeeping Superintendents Association. This was
the first meeting of this kind that
w e have participated in and to my
mind marks the beginning of better and closer associations between
the G. S. A, and The Greenkeepers
Club of N e w England to our mutual benefit.
1 would also like to note that we
had our annua! joint meeting w i t h
the Service Section of the Massachusetts
Golf
Association;
our
annual J o h n Shannahan Memorial
Tournament held jointly with the
New England P. G. A., and w e
took part in the program of the
golf section of The Recreational
Conference at Massachusetts State
College at Amherst.
The year 1941 has seen very
critical developments in the history of our country. W e have lost
two of our members, Francis Tus-

cher and Tom Mattus, who are
now in active service for the
United States Army. M a n y greenkeepers are taking an active part
in the local home defense and air
raid prevention programs being
carried out.
The year 1942 will be probably
a trying one for golf courses and
greenkeeping.
The ingenuity of
each and every greenkeeper will
be taxed to the utmost in his efforts to produce with limited resources as good a golf course as
he has been able to in the past.
It would seem to me that under
these conditions our club
will
prove to be of greater value to us
than ever before. This opportunity to get together once a month

with fellow members of our profession and discuss our mutual problems is of great assistance. I hope
therefore that each and every
member of the club will make a
special effort to take as active a
part in the affairs of the club as
possible this next year for his own
benefit as well as that of his fellow members.
Respectfully submitted,
Samuel S. Mitchell

DECEMBER

MEETING

The December meeting w a s held
at the W a l t h a m Field Station,
December 1, 1941 . The speaker
was Professor Lawrence Dickinson
of the Massachusetts State College.
He gave a very interesting
talk on the outlook for 1942.
C O N T I N U E D FROM

NOVEMBER

ISSUE
The first part of February we begin to get "boils" in the ice. These,
apparently, are made by water
coming up from under the ice
through an air hole or crack, freezing as it seeps out, thus building
up a pile of ice or " b o i l " on the
surface.
The first few of these
we cut off with an ice chopper. As
the season advances, the number
of boils increases, until finally the
rink is covered with one every foot
or so. They will appear on resurfaced ice between the time that
w e stop spraying and midafternoon. A t times we have had them
develop while we were spraying,
building up faster than w e could
spray them out.
W e are considering using a planer for resurfacing the ice after boils start developing. If this would work out, w e

could extend the season for good
ice by a couple of weeks.
By
M a r c h it is impossible to keep a
good skating surface, even though
the boils were controlled or eliminated. By this time the sun is so
high, that the surface of the ice
becomes soft and slushy during the
day, regardless of how cold it gets
during the night.
Snow removal is done with a
Myers snow plow, equipped with a
hydraulic lift and mounted on a
1 lA-ton Ford truck.
Except for
the first couple of storms, when
the snow is pushed up around the
edges of the rink and parking field,
w e push it off onto an adjacent
rough. Snow fences, erected northwest of the rink each fall, help to
keep the snow from drifting too
badly on either parking field or
rink.
It was suggested by one of our
members that we try some decorations, painted on the ice, for our
annual carnival.
Previous to this
event, w e tried it out in a small
w a y on one corner of the rink. W e
used both cold water paints, Muresco, and regular house paint,
spraying over
the areas
after
painting.
This worked well as
long as the weather was cloudy or
cold, but as soon as the sun came

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pieces.
The rink has been popular with
the members.
During weekday
evenings we get as high as 75
skaters, and on weekends as high
as 1 50 a day. Each year the club
holds an ice carnival. The rink is
decorated with pennants.
Various
kinds of events such as races for
men, for women and for children,
exhibitions of figure skating, etc.,
are held. Colored movies are taken,
and shown later at the Annual
meeting of the club. The Ice Carnival has developed into one of the
big events of the club.
Skating has helped to keep up
the interest of the members in the
club at a season when interest in,
and activities at a club are usually at their lowest ebb.
In addi-

tion to member interest, the rink
has provided winter employment
for two of the golf course employees, thus helping to assure some
experienced
help for
the
golf
course each spring. This is worth
something to any golf club.

The Greenkeeping Superintendent Association will hold its 16th
annual National Educational Conference at the Hotel Sherman in
Chicago, III., Feb. 10, 11, 12 and
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