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Dickinson S c h o l a r s h i p Fund — A w a r d e d y e a r l y
to d e s e r v i n g Turf M a n a g e m e n t S t u d e n t s .

Secretary •—
A N T H O N Y C A R A N C I , JR.
22 H i l l v i e w Drive
N o . Providence, R. I. 02900
Phone 723-1688
Club Affiliation
Ledgemont Country Club
First Vice-President

THOMAS CURRAN
37 Parker S t r e e t
Fitchburg, Mass. 01420
Phone 342-9198
Club Affiliation
Oak H i l l C o u n t r y C l u b

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R I C H A R D C . BLAKE
21 I Sewall Street
Boylston, Mass. 01505
Phone 869-2737
Club Affiliation

LUCIEN DUVAL
9 Rose Lane
Framingham C e n t e r , Mass.
Phone 872-0006
Club Affiliation
Manchester C o u n t r y C l u b

M t . Pleasant C o u n t r y C l u b
Second Vice-President

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ROBERT G R A N T
22 Patricia Road
Sudbury, Mass. 01776
Phone 443-2671
Club Affiliation
Brae Burn C o u n t r y 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
Woodland Country Club

Educational C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m a n
WILLIAM ASH
9 Patton S t r e e t
Phone 993-8767
No. Dartmouth, M a ;

PHILIP C A S S I D Y
45 G r o s v e n o r Road
N e e d h a m , Mass. 02192
Phone 444-4127
Club Affiliation
Weston Golf Club
•inance C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m a n
ALBERT A L L E N
Box 106
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Phone 744-7783
Club Affiliation
Kernwood Country C l u b

L E O N V. ST. PIERRE
51 Fernwood Road
L o n g m e a d o w Mass. 01106
Phone 567-5562
Club Affiliation
Longmeadow Country Club

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ROBERT M U C C I A R O N E
465 Summer S t r e e t
W e s t w o o d , Massachusetts 02090
Phone 329-9682
Club Affiliation
Dedham C o u n t r y a n d Polo C l u b
Golf Committee Chairman —

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W A Y N E RIPLEY
507 M a i n S t r e e t
W a l p o l e , Massachusetts 02081
Phone 668-6396
Club Affiliation
Walpole Country Club
Newsletter C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m a n
D E A N ROBERTSON
24 Riverview Drive
N e w b u r y , Mass. 01950
Phone 462-4540
Club Affiliation
C h e s t n u t Hill C o u n t r y C l u b

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A N N U A L MEETING
The December meeting of the G.C.S.A. of N.E. was
held at the Holiday Inn, Newton, Mass. on December 4,
1967. This was the annual meeting and the Committee
Chairmen for 1967 made their reports and they were
accepted. The newly elected officers for 1968 are:
President — Anthony Caranci, J r .
First Vice-President — Richard Blake
Second Vice-President — Robert Grant
Secretary — Thomas Curran
Treasurer — Lucien Duval
Trustee — Norman Mucciarone
Trustee — William Ash
Trustee — Philip Cassidy
Finance Chairman — Albert Allen
Educational Chairman — Robert Mucciarone
Golf Chairman — Wayne Ripley
Newsletter Chairman — Dean Robertson
Past President — Leon V. St. Pierre
Application for Associate Membership to be voted on
at next meeting:
Charles A. Martineau
Spring Street
Leeds, Massachusetts
Northampton Country Club

N a t i o n a l Conference
The National Conference will be held in San Francisco this year. The dates are February 18-23, 1968. If you
are going, be prepared to discuss transportation at the
next meeting.

Massachusetts Conference
The conference will be held at the White House Inn
in Chicopee this year, due to extensive renovations at
the University of Mass. The dates are March 6, 7, 8,
1968.

s ^ i d o c i a t i o n
Tony Caranci
President

Leon St. Pierre
Retiring President

On behalf of the Golf " Course Superintendents' "Association of New England, I wish to highly commend Leon
V. St. Pierre, (Rt.) for an extraordinary three year term
of office, as President of our fine association.
With his strong leadership and untiring efforts, he
constantly moved our Association forward. His initiative
and straight-forwardness has certainly left its mark. His
ambition, drive and foresight was always to make the
Association and the Golf Course Superintendent supreme.
With the stature and caliber of man instilled in Leon
St. Pierre, which overflowed into the workings of our
association, we were very fortunate to have had him
serve us as our President. I do hope that he will continue to actively participate in the functioning of our
association in the future.
Speaking for the entire membership, I wish to say a
simple Thank You, Leon V. St. Pierre for a job well
done.
Anthony B. Caranci, J r .
President

Newsletters!

A b o u t Your N e w President. . .

I would like to know if any of our members have any
Newsletters prior to 1959. If you do not want to part
with them, I will have them photo-stated and return them
to you. Thank you.

You name it. He's done it.
This probably is the appropriate capsuled manner of
introducing the New England Greens Superintendents'
Association new president — Anthony B. (Tony) Caranci, J r .
Tony is a combination of many thin gs. "He's" successful
in his profession. He has a mile of accomplishments as
a civic leader. He belongs to more organizations than
the most successful of politicians. Yet, through it all, in
his acceptance speech of the Association presidency, Tony
said . . . " I only hope I can do 50 per cent as well as
Leon St. Pierre (outgoing president). If I accomplish
that, I'll know I've done something b i g . "
This is the real Tony Caranci and, then, maybe it
isn't. Caranci doesn't emulate, he creates. If it weren't in
him to take the lead, he wouldn't hold such high office
and be held in such bright esteem by the Association
membership.
What Tony probably means to say is that he'll follow
the trend of upgrading the profession which St. Pierre
sought to do during his tenure as president. Cararci and
St. Pierre are of the same opinion in regard to the greens
superintendents' place in society. "We're going to keep
moving", he reassures members.
A do-everything man, Caranci is saturated with energy. His list of educational endeavors in turf management
can be strung from coast to coast. He even has completed
a Dale Carnegie Course and served on guest panels during turf conferences at several state universities.

T H E O F F I C E R S — 1968
Front Row left to right: Lucien Duval, Richard Blake, Anthony
Caranci, Robert Grant, Thomas Curran. Back Row left to right:
Albert Allen, Norman Mucciarone, "Wayne Ripley, Dean Robertson
Leon St. Pierre, Philip Cassidy.

Next Meeting
The next meeting will be January 8, 1968 at the Holiday Inn, Newton, Mass. (Exit 58, off Rt. 1 2 8 ) .
Directors' Meeting
10:30 a . m .
Regular Meeting
11:00 a . m .
Dinner
12:15 p . m .
Educational Program
1:15 p . m .

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In Rhode Island he is a civic giant. A member of several city and state-improvement groups, he also serves
as chairman of the North Providence Republican Town
Committee. He is an Elk, a Lion, etc., and has been a
Notary Public for 11 years.
His golf course experience is a shining continuance of
other feats. His first superintendent job was at the Louisquissett Golf Club in North Providence. After six years
he moved over to Ledgemont in Seekonk where he has
been doctoring grounds since 1956.
The New England Association must be complimented,
give itself a pat on the back for selecting Tony Caranci
as president. Only good can come from such a decision.

SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Pete Sumner was the recipient of the Lawrence S. Dickinson
Scholarship Award and receiving it from Tony Caranci (1) and
Phil Cassidy ( r ) .
Pete was a four year student in liberal arts, but had a longing in
the back of his mind for fine turf management. He followed his
dream and entered Stockbridge as a Turf Management Major.
Pete did his placement training at Brae Burn under Bob Grant
where he gained much experience of how a large 27-hole course
is maintained. He is married and his wife is expecting a baby
soon. They are living in Williamsburg while Pete is in college.

W h i l e the Golf Course Sleeps . . .
A woman's work is never done. And . . . neither, for
that matter . . . is that of the golf course superintendent.
Five will get you 10 most club members — just about
this time of year — figure the superintendent is off with
the club pro on "their annual winter vacation." It's just
taken for granted if the golf course sleeps, so, too, does
the superintendent.
Actually, it would be nice if this fractured piece of
Utopia was a reality instead of a myth. Three or four
months in the sun, away from the incessant inquiries of
mean-well but often-annoying self-appointed experts of
the greens, would constitute an unheard of luxury. Yet,
the pro does it every turn of the season and usually returns to the club disappointed because the "time flew by."
Golf course superintendents hibernate in the winter
. . . join the bears for a well-deserved siesta? Not on
your life, friend. It just doesn't happen — not yet, anyway.
So, what do these scientific dirt scratchers occupy
themselves with while the rest of the club is at play?
For one thing, every winter is spruce-up, tune-up time
for equipment. Mowers, tractors, bulldozers are almost
human. They do break down. They do need that annual
checkup. And the superintendent has to be on hand to
do all of the diagnosing and most of the repair work.
Then, there is the constant search for new remedies
to old problems and relentless study to bring the golf
course back to the peak of life when the membership
starts its return to swing come March or April. Such a
project cannot be treated as off-season duty. The attempt

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to bring about the ultimate in playing conditions is an
endless operation. There are no calendars to set the mind
in motion or the wheels spinning to find the formula for
the new type of grass or solution which will improve
the state of golf for the membership.
Conferences, panel discussions and similar forms of
educational aids also add to the crowded winter agenda
of the superintendent. However small they may be,
there always exists the possibility that something revolutionary in the field will be presented which might add
to the overall effectiveness of the job.
Many of the supers will do some socializing . . . but
strictly on a restricted basis. The National Association's
annual meeting and election of officers shall draw a small
crowd from New England. But, alas, in the end it will
not be all play. When golf course superintendents get
together — even on the dance floor — the conversation
eventually flows back to poa annua, insecticides and
other shop talk. So, there is no end to the search for perfection of greens and fairways, even if the quest move
far off to some celestial escape hatch like San Francisco
where the meetings are scheduled this year.
So . . . while the club pro plays, the members wish
they had the "easy life" of both the pro and superintendent and the golf cours esleeps . . . the superintendent's
work goes on through the long haul of winter. It is never
done, his work. When that day does arrive, with it shall
come a new meaning for Utopia.
Gerry Finn

Lou D u v a l R e t u r n s t o M a n c h e s t e r
After 19 years on the road,
Lou Duval is going home.
The 41-year-old
Duval,
who has distinguished himself among his colleagues
as a three-term treasurer of
the New England Greens
Superintendents'
Association, is going back to the
Manchester, N. H. Country
Club to complete a successful professional cycle.
Duval will return after a five-year stint at Chestnut
Hill, a course which will still bask in the Duval trend
of achievement sinctr Dean Robertson is taking over
there.
Lou started his career under the man he'll succeed •—
Edward Buecher who is retiring after 44 years at Manchester and who happens to be Duval's father-in-law.
There is no way of confirming such claim, but Lou
Duval could be the only local service veteran to study
turf management under the old GI Bill of Rights. He
arranged a 30-month course after three years in the
Army and came out of the session with Buecher anxious
to strike for his own personal success. That came fast,
as expected.
Duval spent five years at Leicester Hill, pulled nine
more at Hillcrest, then moved on to Chestnut Hill where
his knowledgeable talents pushed that course into a new
peak of condition.
For as long as he has diligently pursued the profession
(19 years), Lou has been a member of the Association.
He is a natural leader as evidenced by the faith placed
in him as an elected officer of the group.
On his new assignment, Lou is doubly thrilled. "My
wife, Mary, and myself are both from Manchester", he
says. " S o it will be a big homecoming for us and our
four-year-old daughter, Leslie Anne."

"SENIORS CHAMP"
Golf Committee Chairman Ted Murphy (left) is presenting the
annual G.C.S.A. of N. E. "Seniors Trophy" to Leo Brown. When
Leo is not playing golf, he is the superintendent at the Thompson
Club in Reading, Mass.

"ASSOCIATION

CHAMP"

Golf Committee Chairman Ted Murphy (left) is presenting the
annual G.C.S.A. of N.E. "Champion Trophy" to Mel Wendell. Mel
is the superintendent at. Wanamoisett C. C. in Rumford, R. I.

FRIENDS OF THE A S S O C I A T I O N
Abbott S p r a y and F a r m Equipment Co.
Waltham Street
Lexington, Massachusetts
Dr. Burton R . Anderson
Golf Course Architect
Turf and Golf Course Consultant
Route 5
Augusta, M a i n e
K e n Minasian
Scotts
6 Amelia Court
N . Providence, R . I .
Geoffrey S . Cornish
Golf Course Architect
F i d d l e r ' s Green
Amherst, Massachusetts
T h e Kenneth B a r r i e Company
375 Centre Street
J a m a i c a Plain, Massachusetts
F u e l Activator Chemical Corp.
C. F . B a r b o u r — Regional Director
43000 Prudential Tower
Boston, Massachusetts
Grounds Equipment Co., Inc.
383 Boylston Street
Newton Centre, Massachusetts

John P . Simon, Asst. M g r .
Springfield Rendering Com^
P . 0 . Box 379
Springfield, Massachusetts 011
Karandrew Turf Farms, Inc.
S a m Mitchell, S a l e s Representative
18 Old Randolph Street
Canton, Massachusetts
Johns-Manville S a l e s Corp.
150 Causeway Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Larchmont Irrigation Co.
Larchmont L a n e
Lexington, Massachusetts
J . F . Aveni
L u S o i l Soil Conditioner
Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals Corp.
25 Concord Avenue
Belmont, Massachusetts
Magovern Company, Inc.
Lawn Acre R o a d
Windsor Lock, Connecticut
Gaffny Enterprises, Inc.
Irrigation Specialists
North Main Street
Middleton, Massachusetts

Dean Robertson Moves to Chestnut Hill

Dean Robertson, whose career is on the move, jumps
into the 18-hole league a s
of the first of the year when
he takes over the greens
superintendent chores at the
Chestnut Hill Country Club.
Robertson is part of the
youth movement which is
rushing its way through the
turf management profession
and supplying the New England Greens Superintendents'
Association with future leaders.
The 25-year-old Robertson comes to Chestnut Hill
from the Ould Newbury Golf Club, a nine-hole layout
that grew into a precision-type conditioned course in the
two short years Dean handled its program.
Chestnut Hill is Robertson's third management assignment. After graduating from Stockbridge School in 1962
with an associate degree, the Stoneham native put his
education to work on the B r a d f o r d Country Club in
Haverhill. The results of his labors caused Ould Newbury to realize the effects of his talents. Now Chestnut
Hill is following suit.
Dean is married and the father of two girls — Holly,
3 and Heidi, 9 months.
Currently he is in the midst of a budding contribution
to the Association as the editor of the monthly
Newsletter.

Melanson of Georgetown
Modern S t e a m and Pressure Cleaners
Modern Industrial Cleaning Chemicals
Georgetown, Massachusetts

~iy & Clapper, Inc.
utledge R o a d
.ck, Massachusetts
.Philip A. Wogan
Golf Course Architect
21 Budleigh Avenue
Beverly, Massachusetts

Shepard Sod Company
Merion B l u e Grass and Pencross B e n t
200 Sullivan Avenue
South Windsor, Conn.

Wyandotte Chemical Co.
709 S a l a d a Building
Boston, Massachusetts
D. L . Maher Co.
Water Supply Contractors
Testwells — Gravel packed wells
Byron J a c k s o n P u m p s
P. O. Box 274
Woburn, Massachusetts
Alfco Rokeby Co., Inc.
Fertilizers and Chemical Specialties
P. O. Box 267
Marietta, Ohio
T h e Clapper Co.
1121 Washington Street
West Newton, Massachusetts
T h e Charles C. Hart Seed Co.
Wethersfield, Connecticut

Tom Irwin Co.
Bennett Hill R o a d
Rowley, Massachusetts
A. C. Lawn, Inc.
P. O. Box 436
Wakefield, Mass.
Sawtelle Brothers
J e t . Routes 128 and 62
Danvers. Massachusetts
K e r r M c G e e Chemical Corporation
P. O. Box 790
Waterbury, Connecticut
Stanley S . Philipkoski
S a l e s Representative
Stauffer Chemical Co.
380 Madison Avenue
New York, New York

His decision to join the ranks of golf superintendents
was prompted by the urging of Manuel Francis, J r . with
whom he served a six-month placement tour at Belmont.
When Dean first entered Stockbridge, it was with
the idea of becoming a landscape gardener. However,
through close association with Francis, his goals slowly
shifted to golf.
Dean says he realizes the step u p to an JB-hole couxse presents a challenge. " I only hope I can fill the bill at
Chestnut Hill," he declares.
N o one w o r r i e s & ^ o u t that except Dean. Of his early
rise in the profeSsidn,%his career
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Newsl&Her dort&iit+ee Chairman D EA
24 RivervieWH^rTve
Newbury, Massachusetts 01950
Phone 462-4540
Club Affiliation

Chestnut Hill C o u n t r y Club

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