NEWSLETTER
FEBRUARY 1950

The Annual Meeting of the Greenkeepers
Club of New England was held Monday, January
9th at 1:30 P.M. at the Hotel Bradford in Boston.
It seems that we are enjoying bigger and
better meetings! The participation of the members present at the meeting brings out increasing
points of interest and makes one realize that
attendance to all meetings is vital to the welfare
of our profession.
At the business meeting the following officers
were elected for 1950:
H. A. Mosher, President
Arthur Cody, First Vice-President
George Rommell, Second Vice-President
Michael O'Grady, Third Vice-President
N. J. Sperandio, Secretary
John L. Counsell, Treasurer
John Latvis, Trustee for 3 years
Manuel Francis, Chairman Entertainment Com.
Alber Allen, Chairman Golf Committee
Anthony J. Sperandio,
Auditing Committee
Semi Braio
Three new members were elected, namely:
Regular membership, Greenkeeper Herbert E.
Johnson, Potowomut Golf Club;
Associate membership, Greenkeeper Sam
Swayze, Sankaty Head Golf Club;
Associate membership, Greenkeeper Albert
Sanders, Juniper Hill Golf Club.
The application of Frank Malone, Greenkeeper of the Blue Hill Country Club was read
and will be voted on at the next regular meeting.
Phil Cassidy, retiring president, pointed out
some of the important happenings in the club
during 1948 and 1949.
Two of the most important of these were:
the successful campaign to bring the 1950 National Turf Conference and Show to Boston and
the steady increase in membership despite an
increase in initiation fee and dues.
Treasurer Jack Counsell reported the Club's
finances to be in sound shape.

President Harold Mosher thanked the members for the honor bestowed on him and pledged
himself to the continued success of the Club.
President Mosher then turned the meeting
over to Phil Cassidy, General chairman of the
19o0 National Turf Conference and Show, who
led a review of the coming Conference by introducing different committee chairmen who in
turn gave a complete outline of the show as approved up to that time.
A complete program is included with this
notice and should you wish others please contact
Secretary, Narry Sperandio at the Concord Country Club, Concord, Mass.
You can easily see from this program why
this Conference and Show is expected to be the
largest in the 21 years it has been held.
Don't delay in sending in your reservation
card for a Hotel room as a full house is expected
at the Statler.
The February meeting of the Greenkeepers
Club of N. E. will be held Monday, January 30th
at 1:30 P.M. at the Hotel Bradford in Boston.
This meeting is being held early to report on
the final program and to take care of final plans
for entertaining early arrivals. James Morrison,
chairman of the Convention Bureau of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce will brief us on details
of the Conference to be handled by his office. If
you want your application endorsed for membership in the National, bring it to this meeting.
Have you seen the "new look" dues cards
Treasurer Jack Counsell has for 1950?
Robert A. Mitchell, Past President and Charter member, who has been active on committees
since the founding of the Club, was unanimously
elected an honorary member. His sons Sam,
Henry and William were also present at this
meeting.
Editor, PHILIP I. CASSIDY