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President—
LEON V. ST. PIERRE
Longmeadow Country Club
51 Fenwood Road
Longmeadow 6, Mass.
Phone LO 7-5562
First Vice-President—
ANTHONY CARANCI JR.
Ledgemont Country Club
22 Hillview Drive
North Providence 4, R. 1.
Phone PA 3-1688
Second Vice-President—
RICHARD C. BLAKE
M t . Pleasant Country Club
211 Sewall Street
Boylston, Mass.
Phone 869-2737

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Secretary—
FLOYD N. WIGET
Bellevue Golf Club
23 Lynn Falls Parkway
Saugus, Mass.
233-1353
Treasurer—
ARTHUR L. CODY
Wollaston Golf Club
Phone Supt. Office at Club
GR 2-3535
Home GR 2-7913
19 Ardell Street
No. Quincy, M a s s .
Trustee—
N. J. S P E R A N D I O
Concord Country Club
Concord, Mass.
Phone E M 9-4723

Trustee—
ALBERT L. ALLEN
Kernwood Country Club
Salem, Mass.
Phone PI 4-7783
Trustee—
W I L L I A M ASH
9 Patton Street
No. Dartmouth, Mass.
Phone WY 3-8767
Finance Committee Chairman—
W I L L I A M ASH
9 Patton Street
No. Dartmouth, Mass.
Phone WY 3-8767
Educational Committee ChairmanT H O M A S CURRAN
Oak Hill Country Club
37 Parker Street
Fitchburg, Mass.
Phone D! 2-9198

Golf Committee C h a i r m a n Edward J. M u r p h y
Lexington Country Club
194 Oxbow Road
Wayland, Mass.
Phone 358-7410
Newsletter Committee C h a i r m a n M A N U E L N. FRANCIS
Belmont Country Club
387 Davis Road
Bedford, Mass.
Phone 275-8830
Past President—
JOSEPH BUTLER
United Shoe Country Club
3 Ridgewood Terrace
Beverly, Mass.
Phone WA 2-1263

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JUNE MEETING

CARLING'S WORLD OF GOLF

T h e J u n e m e e t i n g w a s h e l d at the
L e d g e m o n n t Country Club, Seekonk, M a s s .
Host Superintendent T o n y C a r a n c i had the
l a r g e s t turnout f o r the S u p e r i n t e n d e n t Chairman m e e t i n g . A l l had a good t i m e . No
business m e e t i n g was h e l d .

T O U R N A M E N T RESULTS
1st P l a c e - Net 65
J. R e i d y and C . P e t e r s o n

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2nd P l a c e - Net. 66
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M . F r a n c i s and N K u r s o n
M . B r o w n and D r . Jaslow

Belmont
Allendale

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Wolla ston
Wollaston

NEXT MEETING
The next m e e t i n g w i l l be held July 12th at
the M t . P l e a s a n t Golf Club, L O W E L L , M A S S .
T h e r e w i l l be a business m e e t i n g at 11:00
Lunch w i l l

G . C . S . A . N . E . m e m b e r s who a r e i n t e r e s t e d in watching the C a r l i n g ' s W o r l d Golf
Championship at the P l e a s a n t V a l l e y Country
Club, Sutton, M a s s . , August 19-22 m a y do
so by p r e s e n t i n g his c u r r e n t m e m b e r ship c a r d
to the C a r l i n g ' s T o u r n a m e n t o f f i c e l o c a t e d in
the P l e a s a n t V a l l e y M o t o r L o d g e on R t e . 146
Sutton, M a s s . T r a v e l i n g south on R t e . 146,
the M o t o r L o d g e is on the right hand side of
the r o a d , 1/2 m i l e b e f o r e the m a i n r o a d to
the P l e a s a n t V a l l e y Country Club.

PRESIDENT'S M E S S A G E

3rd P l a c e - Net 67
G . G o r t o n and J . Hackett
Furnace Brook
4th P l a c e - Net 68
W . R i p l e y and D . Callahan
A . Cody and B . Ryan
A . Cody and P . H u r l e y

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be s e r v e d p r o m p t l y at

12:00

Golf w i l l be a f t e r lunch

DIRECTIONS TO MT. PLEASANT GOLF CLUB
F r o m Rte . 128 in L e x i n g t o n , take R t e . 3
t o w a r d L o w e l l to the C h e l m s f o r d r o t a r y .
T a k e the J. M . F i e l d s exit at r o t a r y , which
w i l l be W e s t f o r d S t r e e t . F o l l o w W e s t f o r d
Street until you see the sign to M t . P l e a s a n t
Golf Club on r i g h t .

J U G END B A R N
P l a n a h e a d f o r the S e p t e m b e r 13th m e e t i n g
at the J u g E n d B a r n ! L a d i e s a r e i n v i t e d .
Many w i l l m a k e it a long w e e k end with a l l
the a c t i v i t i e s t h a t a r e o f f e r e d . L e t ' s a l l m a k e
it an e n j o y a b l e o c c a s s i o n .

T h e c l a s s of 1965 of T u r f m a j o r s , at the
S t o c k b r i d g e school was the l a r g e st e v e r .
T h i s group of a m b i t i o u s young m e n have
chosen a f i e l d that is on the t h r e s h o l d of a
breakthrough on drought r e s i t a n t g r a s s e s ,
and c h e m i c a l s that w i l l inhibit the g e r m i n a tion of c e r t a i n w e e d s in the s o i l . Y e s , this
y e a r ' s graduating c l a s s is, indeed, fortunate
in many w a y s . H o w e v e r , the m a j o r i t y of
these students n e v e r get to see any fine T u r f ,
until they begin their p l a c e m e n t t r a i n i n g .
T h i s m a k e s it v e r y a w k w a r d f o r training
students that have no f a c i l i t i e s , such as turf
g r a s s plots to be used in conjunction with
their c l a s s and l a b o r a t o r y w o r k .
T h e Golf C o u r s e Superintendents of N e w
England and the M a s s a c h u s e t t s T u r f & Lawn
G r a s s Council have o v e r t h e y e a r s made
v a r i o u s attempts to get the r i g h t people int e r e s t e d enough to get r e s e a r c h plots on the
University campus.
F o r the past s e v e r a l y e a r s the thinking
has been to have a r e g u l a t i o n golf c o u r s e on
the U n i v e r s i t y campus to c a r r y turf r e s e a r c h
under actual p l a y i n g c o n d i t i o n s .
I would like to think that these students
a r e not being t r a i n e d to stand around the
f i r s t tee with a carnation in their l a p e l , but
to know that they w i l l be w o r k i n g with l i v i n g
things; a c o m p l e x g r a s s plant; living s o i l s
and not something as s i m p l e as e n g i n e s , nuts
and b o l t s .
We have f l o u n d e r e d too many y e a r s away
in a h a l f - h e a r t e d attempt to get such r e s e a r c h g o i n g . O b v i o u s l y , being nice to people

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mendations as to a s a l a r y i n c r e a s e f o r the
employees .

h a s n o t b e e n t h e a n s w e r to get what we
wanted. We must be p r e p a r e d t o a p p l y
o r g a n i z e d p r e s s u r e in the right q u a r t e r s and
get things in their p r o p e r p e r s p e c t i v e .

The M a t e r i a l s section of the budget should
have a l l of the m a t e r i a l s that you intend to
buy and give a s m a l l explanation as to the
need and the importance of the particular
a r t i c l e . R e m e m b e r that you have to stick up
f o r y o u r r i g h t s . A l s o put the cost of the
m a t e r i a l so that the r e a d e r doesn't have to
keep r e f e r i n g to the f r o n t of the budget all of
the time .

Let us stand f i r m l y together and unified.
The Golf Course Superintendents, M a s s a c h u setts T u r f Council and the U n i v e r s i t y of
Massachusetts staff and a l l other i n t e r e s t e d
p a r t i e s . T o g e t h e r . . . we can stop passing the
buck.
Leon V . St. P i e r r e

The m i s c e l l a n e o u s section should be devoted to the extras that you have to spend
that d o n o t d i r e c t l y c o n c e r n the c o u r s e .
Maintenance of Tennis Courts, Club house
grounds and r e p l a c e m e n t of worn equipment.
I f e e l that the club should be kept i n f o r m e d
of the condition and the age of the equipment
so that they can be p r e p a r e d to r e p l a c e the
old b e f o r e it gets beyond r e p a i r .

THE GOLF COURSE BUDGET
The purpose of the budget is to show the
club what to expect for the coming season
and to give them an idea of how much m o n e y
is to be spent and w h e r e and f o r what. I f e e l
that a good budget should be divided into four
sections, L a b o r , M a t e r i a l s , M i s c e l l a n e o u s
and Special R e p o r t s .

The f i n a l section of the budget should contain the special r e p o r t s such as the cost of
r e b u i l d i n g the new f i f t h green or the new
seventh tee . List all of the m a t e r i a l s and
their costs and give an approximate date as
to when the proposed p r o j e c t s w i l l be c o m p l e t e d . S o m e t i m e s it is good to submit a f e w
drawings of the new proposed holes to give
the m e m b e r s something to d i s c u s s .

The f i r s t page of your budget should be
composed of n past and p r e s e n t " . S u m m a r i z e
the past season and r e v i e w with the m e m b e r s
just what happened and r e m i n d them how you
had to go over your budget because of the unf o r e s e e n p r o j e c t s they had you do and then
p r e s e n t to them what you have planned f o r
the present season. The next page of the
budget should be devoted to the total listed
costs that a r e in the budget. L i s t everything
and make it c l e a r , then add up all the columns
so that there a r e n o q u e s t i o n s l e f t unans w e r e d . I t i s a l w a y s g o o d to have an
E m p l o y e e Evaluation section where you can
list each of your f u l l time e m p l o y e e s and give
a short h i s t o r y of his s p e c i a l jobs and duties
and at this t i m e you can put in any r e c o m -

If it is at a l l possible I f e e l that an annual
m e e t i n g between the G r e e n s Superintendent
and the G r e e n s C o m m i t t e e is i m p o r t a n t to
discuss the budget i n f u l l . Go o v e r the entire
budget and argue a l l of your points and ideas
because nobod^" i f oo[p_n to Ho it f o r you ^
Dean R o b e r t s o n , Superintendent
B r a d f o r d Country Club
B r a d f o r d , Massachusetts

SOMETIME
Sometime when you're feeling
important
Sometime when your ego's in bloom,
Sometime when you take it for
granted,
You're the best qualified in the room.
Sometime when you feel that your

going.

W o u l d leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow this simple instruction
A n d see how it humbles your soul.
T a k e a bucket and fill it with water,
Put your hand in it up to the wrist.

Pull it out and the hole that's
remaining
Is a measure of how you'll be missed.
You may splash all you please when
you enter,
You can stir up the water galore,
But stop and you'll find in a minute
T h a t it looks quite the same as
before.
T h e moral in this quaint example is:
D o just the best that you can
Be proud of yourself, but
remember —
T h e r e is no indispensable man.

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C O N T R I B U T I O N S F R O M O U R FRIENDS

G e o f f r e y S. Cornish
Golf Course A r c h i t e c t
Fiddler's Green
A m h e r s t , Massachusetts

Grounds Equipment Co. , Inc.
383 Boylston Street
Newton Centre, Massachusetts
Turf Equipment Co.
28 Rutledge Road
Natick, Massachusetts

Sawtelle B r o t h e r s
Jet. Routes 128 and 62
Danvers, Massachusetts

Abbott Spray and F a r m Equipment Co.
Waltham Street
Lexington, Massachusetts
The Hubbard Hall Chemical Co.
P . O. Box 790
W a t e r b u r y , "Connecticut
Singleton I r r i g a t i o n s Systems, Inc.
M a n c h e s t e r - By- T h e - S e a , Massachusetts
The Clapper Co.
1121 Washington S t r e e t
West Newton, Massachusetts

P h i l i p A . Wogan
Golf Course A r c h i t e c t
21 Budleigh Avenue
B e v e r l y , Massachusetts

The Charles C. Hart Seed Co,
W e t h e r s f i e l d , Connecticut

Larchmonj; I r r i g a t i o n Co.
Larchmont Lane
Lexington, Massachusetts

The Kenneth B a r r i e Co.
4140 and 4140A Washington Street
R o s l i n d a l e , Massachusetts

L e e Patten Seed C o .
20 Beck Road
A r l i n g t o n , Massachusetts

M A N U E L N. FRANCIS
Belmont Country Club
387 Davis Rood
Bedford, Mass.
Phone 275-8830

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T o m I r w i n Co.
Bennet H i l l Road
R o w l e y , Massachusetts

Wyandotte C h e m i c a l Corp.
709 Salada Building
Boston, Massachusetts

Sil Paulini Inc.
L o a m Specialists
Hopkinton - 435-4370

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Johns M a n v i l l e Sales Corp.
150 Causeway Street
Boston, Massachusetts