NOVEMBER 1967 QJf ourSe Superintendents Course OF NEW ^^AAociation E N G L A N D Sponsors and administrators of the Lawrence S. Dickenson Scholarship Fund — A w a r d e d yearly to deserving Turf Management Students. Secretary — L E O N V. ST. PIERRE 51 Fenwood Road Longmeadow, Mass. 01106 Phone 567-5562 Club Affiliation Longmeadow Country C l u b First Vice-President — A N T H O N Y C A R A N C I JR. 22 Hillview Drive N o . Providence, R. I. 02900 Phone 723-1688 Club Affiliation Ledgemont C o u n t r y C l u b Educational Committee Chairman WILLIAM ASH 9 Pafton Street N o . Dartmouth, M a ; Phone 993-8767 THOMAS CURRAN 37 Parker Street Fitchburg, Mass. 01420 Phone 342-9198 Club Affiliation O a k Hill Country C l u b NORMAN MUCCIARONE 101 A l b a n Road W a b a n , Mass. 02168 Phone 332-3056 Club Affiliation W o o d l a n d Country C l u b LUCIEN DUVAL 9 Rose Lane Framingham Center, Mass. 0 Phone 872-0006 Cfub Affiliation Chestnut Hill Country C l u b Finance Committee Chairman N. J. S P E R A N D I O Concord, Mass. 0 1 7 4 2 Phone 369-4723 Club Affiliation C o n c o r d Country C l u b Second Vice-President — R I C H A R D C. BLAKE 211 Sewall Street Boylston, Mass. 01505 Phone 869-2737 Club Affiliation M t . Pleasant C o u n t r y C l u b PHILIP C A S S I D Y 4 5 Grosvenor R o a d Needham, M a s s . 02192 Phone 444-4127 Club Affiliation Weston Golf Club Past President — J O S E P H BUTLER 3 Ridgewood Terrace Beverly, Mass. 01915 Phone 922-1263 Club Affiliation United Shoe C o u n t r y C l u b — ROBERT G R A N T 22 Patricia R o a d Sudbury, Mass. 0 1 7 7 6 Phone 443-2671 Club Affiliation Brae Burn Country C l u b G o l f Committee Chairman — — E D W A R D J. M U R P H Y 194 O x b o w R o a d W a y l a n d , Mass. 01778 Phone 358-7410 Club Affiliation Lexington Country C l u b Newsletter Committee Chairman DEAN ROBERTSON 2 4 Riverview Drive Newbury, Mass. 01950 Phone 462-4540 Club Affiliation O u l d Newbury G o l f C l u b — (bourse Superintendents ^Association OCTOBER MEETING The last meeting of the G.C.S.A. of N. E. was the annual Pro-Supt. at the Brae Burn Country Club, Newton, Mass. Supt. Bob Grant had the course in top notch condition. Congratulations to Phil Cassidy and Jim Browning of Weston C. C. who had a 75 - 66 for first low net and also the winners of the John Shanahan Memorial Trophy. Results of the tournament: 72 1st Low Net — Jim Browning, Phil Cassidy Weston C. C. 75-66 77-71 3rd Low Net (3 way tie) Alex Burns, Dean Robertson Ould Newbury 86-72 Ed Kornasky, Bob Mucciaroni Dedham C. C. 79-72 Earl Warnick, Dave McCarthy Holly Ridge G. C. 81-72 N O M I N A T I N G COMMITTEE The Nominating Committee voted as follows: -President The November Meeting will be held at the Dedham Country Club on Monday, November 13, 1967. Bob Muccaroni is the Superintendent. Directors Meeting 10:00 a. m. Regular Meeting 10:30 a. m. Dinner 12:00 sharp Educational Program 12:30 P- m. Golf or Tennis 1st Low Gross — BnTEzinicETGuYTidesco C. C. New Seabury 2nd Low Net — Bill Flynn, Leo Brown Thompson Club NEXT MEETING Anthony Car-an-ci— 1st Vice Presidents — Richard Blake, Guy Tedesco 2nd Vice Presidents — Robert Grant, William Ash Secretary — Thomas Curran Treasurer — Lucien Duval Trustee for Three Years — Norman Mucciarone Finance Committee Chairman — Albert Allen Educational Committee Chairman — Robert Mucciarone Golf Committee Chairman — Wayne Ripley News Letter Committee Chairman — Dean Robertson. Chairman Joe Butler 1:30 P- m. Ben J. Chlevin, Executive Director of the National G.C.S.A.A. will be the guest speaker and his topic is: "The Golf Course Labor Problem." Directions to Dedham: Take Rt. 128 to Rt. 109, Westwood exit. Take first right, Westfield Street and Club is on your right. CHRISTMAS PARTY Preparations are being made for our Third Annual Christmas Party to be held at the Framingham Country Club in December. More about it next month. October 16, 1967 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Budget Time Any well-managed business prepares for the coming fiscal year by drawing up a budget. Then, have several budgetary meetings to discuss its merits and weaknesses, and, prune out all the fat that isn't considered essential to the well being of its business. Strangely enough, many country clubs still operate with no budget or at best, a very flimsy one. Some budgets are too lengthy jyid—are-~packed with non-essential details — others, are very vague and even written inside a match cover. May I present to you a simple outline of a Golf and Grounds Budget. 1968 GOLF AND GROUNDS BUDGET Salary and Wages a. Permanent Employees (List their names) b. Seasonal (List the number of employees and their rate per hr.) (Number of weeks' work) OF Gardener Fairway watering man c. Golf Course Superintendent Take Total of Salaries and Wages a. Taxes and Withholding b. Health and Comp. Insurance c. Depreciation Take Total Golf Course Maintenance a. "Materials Loam, sand, gravel, fertilizer, limestone, weedicides, insecticides, fungicides, grass seed. Take Total of These Items Items Maintenance of House Grounds and Tennis Courts a. Annuals, perennials, shrubs, insecticides, fungicides, hand tools b. Tennis Courts Top dressing material, calcium chloride, tapes, nets, etc. Total of These Items Maintenance of Caddy House and Maintenance Building Heat, light and power Building maintenance repairs Caddy house repairs Take Total of These Items Repairs, Repair Parts, Gas and Oil Repair parts, gas, oil, grease, kerosene, etc. Take Total of These Items Equipment Replacements Hand tools, shovels, rakes, hose, lumber, drinking fountains Take Total of These Must lack of water continue to parch and wilt grass, trees, and flowers ? Will your watering system be adequate this year? Your problems may shortly be lessened by a crazy new invention named appropriately DRY WATER. Dry water is a new invention of the Degussa Chemical Works, Rheinfelden, Germany. It is a white powder consisting of 9 0 % water and 1 0 % silicon dioxide. This compound is very stable and can be stored easily. Dry water can be activated by the early morning dew which triggers release of the water. This powder could possibly be spread on fairways with a wetting agent and cut watering requirements to the barest minimum. Will dry water have a practical application on golf courses? How much will it cost? Will it leave a residue? These questions will be answered with experimentation. Course Construction Projects Take E N G L A N D A CRAZY NEW INVENTION Payroll Charges b. Rebuilding greens and tees Golf cart roads Additional water lines Take Total of These NEW Items Can you imagine the advantage of mixing your seed and dry water together when planting a new area? This would cut down costly hand watering. Or if the weatherman predicts that the temperature will be 106 degrees in the shade, to be able to spread dry water on the greens and activate it with a light syringing. Water is such a costly commodity these days that dry water may be an aid or answer to many problems. The only residue found to date is silicon dioxide which is one of the earth's most common chemicals. To golf courses which can't this discovery might mean the or brown fairways. Burning allleviated by possibly mixing Trees, shrubs, or flowers could a ban on watering. afford watering systems, difference between green with fertilizer might be fertilizer and dry Water. be watered if there were Dry water will probably not be a cure-all but it may provide a solution to a few problems encountered by the golf course superintendent. Let us hope it lives up to its great potential. Malcolm Haskell, Jr. Superintendent Norton Country Club Norton, Mass. Tee and Greens Equipment Tools and Machinery New Construction TAKE GRAND TOTAL Leon V. St. Pierre President There are values that cannot be put into balance sheets. Trees, rivers and rocks have values above and beyond the market. At least a minority of us think so and the American tradition is to honor the minority, not to drown it out. •— William 0 . Douglas mam FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION Abbott Spray and Farm Equipment Co. Waltham Street Lexington, Massachusetts John P. Simon, Asst. Mgr. Springfield Rendering Company P. O. Box 379 Springfield, Massachusetts 01101 Dr. Burton R. Anderson Golf Course Architect Turf and Golf Course Consultant Route 5 Augusta, Maine Tom Irwin Co. Bennett Hill Road Rowley, Massachusetts Karandrew Turf Farms, Inc. Sam Mitchell, Sales Representative 18 Old Randolph Street Canton, Massachusetts The Clapper Co. 1121 Washington Street West Newton, Massachusetts Geoffrey S. Cornish Golf Course Architect Fiddler's Green Amherst, Massachusetts Johns-Manville Sales Corp. 150 Causeway Street Boston, Massachusetts The Charles C. Hart Seed Co. Wethersfield, Connecticut Larchmont Irrigation Co. Larchmont Lane Lexington, Massachusetts Fuel Activator Chemical Corp. C. F. Barbour — Regional Director 43000 Prudential Tower Boston, Massachusetts J . F . Aveni Lu Soil — Soil Conditioner Minerals & Chemicals Philipp Corp. 25 Concord Street Belmont, Massachusetts Gaffny Enterprises, Inc. Irrigation Specialists North Main Street Middleton, Massachusetts Magovern Company, Inc. Lawn Acre Road Windsor Lock, Connecticut Grounds Equipment Co., Inc. 383 Boylston Street Newton Centre, Massachusetts Stanley S. Philipkoski Sales Representative Stauffer Chemical Co. 380 Madison Avenue New York, New York Kerr McGee Chemical Corporation P. 0 . Box 790 Waterbury, Connecticut Sawtelle Brothers .Tct. Routes 128 and 62 Danvers, Massachusetts Richey & Clapper, Inc. 28 Rutledge Road Natick, Massachusetts Philip A. Wogan Golf Course Architect 21 Budleigh Avenue Beverly, Massachusetts Wyandotte Chemical Co. 709 Salada Building Boston, Massachusetts D. L. Maher Co. Water Supply Contractors Testweiis — Gravel packed wells Byron Jackson Pumps P. O. Box 274 Woburn, Massachusetts Alfco Rokeby Co., Inc. Fertilizers and Chemical Specialties P. O. Box 267 Marietta, Ohio Ken Minasian Scotts 6 Amelia Court N. Providence, R. I. The Kenneth Barrie Company 375 Centre Street Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts A. C. Lawn, Inc. P. O. Box 436 Wakefield, Mass. a.Ltf* • tMlX'41 Newsletter C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m a n DEAN ROBERTSON 24 Riverview Drive Newbury, Mass. 01950 Phone 4 6 2 - 4 5 4 0 Club Affiliation Ould Newbury Golf Club — \ N0V-6'< o .. Ja