Property of JAMES B. BEA'D «i Soil; Crop Sciences Dopt. Texas ASMbAv, 1A MICHIGAN TURF MANAGERS ASSOCIATION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5th, 1962 FRANK HEMINGER. SECRETARY-TREAS. FAIRVIEW HILLS GOLF COURSE 1 1 47 SANTO MIO,______________ MICHIGAN TRAVERSE CITY. Ml. 49684 Phone: 51?/648-5~HTo PHONE: 616-947-9274 The October meeting of this Association will be held as shown above. This meeting will be different from any other that we have held and will be a luncheon meeting. The meeting will start at 11:00 A.M. with our business meeting followed about 12:30 with lunch and then golf. This is an experimental project and will permit everyone to head for home as soon as their golf is completed, getting you home during the daylight hours. The location of Fairview Hills Golf Course is 6 miles north of Mio between Mio and Fairview on M-33. If you come from the south or west, in Mio go north on M-33. Coming from the north on 1-75» exit at Down River exit and go east to M-33, at Fairview go south approximately 3 miles to the golf course. If there is any question, the phone number is shown above. Our speaker for this meeting is Dr. Joseph M. Vargas, Jr., Plant Pathologist from Michigan State University, our expert on turfgrass diseases and needed especially for this time of year to bring us up to date on the latest developments and recommendations for treating our turfgrass for the coming winter weather. It is my understanding that at the present time in this north country, that there is much dollar spot and pink snow mold. Joe can cover all these problems with such clarity that we should all go home feeling like experts. We are very grateful to be so fortunate in having this speaker at this time of year. The luncheon will be "Chicken -A-La-King" and will cost $5.00 including tax and tip. It will be served in the new clubhouse at Fairview Hills after our meeting. As is usual, we must advise our genial host, Fred Kauffman of the number that will be there so please complete the enclosed postcard IMMEDIATELY. After lunch, Fred invites you to play this fine layout which he and George Fox have prepared especially for you on this day. They promise not to put the pins where you will putt off of the greens and guarantee you an enjoyable day that you will.remember during the months ahead. $2.00 entry fee for golf, lest you forget. #####**#####*#»#####«##♦##*#*#»##»«#########*#*#*****#*#*#*#*#*#»## THE HOME SWEET HOME OFFICE DEDUCTION IS LEGAL AGAIN. Do you moonlight after your regular work­ ing day-running a separate business, such as real estate, writing or bookkeeping out of your home? If so, you oould be eli­ gible once again for the home-office tax deduction, a tax break Congress removed backin 1976 but which has Just been given the okay again. The pre-1982 requirement was that you could deduct home-olflce expenses (heat, depreciation, light, paint­ ing, etc.) only if you used your home as your principal placeof business for your main occupation. Now, however, you can deduct these expenses as long as a specific room in your horns is your principal place of business for any one of your occupa­ tions, Including a separate part-time Job or business that you handle after hours or on weekends. Note, however, that the law doesn't change the requirement that the office space at home must be used exclusively fbr business. In other words, if you Jgr > work as a secretary at the telephone company all week, but do freelance typing at home, using one room in your five-room erf apartment exclusively for this purpose, you can deduct one-fifth ofyour rent, utility bills, etc. However, If you also use this J* room as a family or TV room, you cant deduct anything. 4s*- Anaddedbonuslsthatthenewtaxlawlsretroactive. Therefore,lfyoudldntdeduotsuchhome-officeexpensesonyour —1979' 1980or 1981taxreturns,youcannowfileamendedrethrnsllstlngthemandgetarefund. Tofileanamendedretum, '*phone your local IRS offlce-ln phone book under U.8.Qoverriment~and ask for copies of Pbrm 1040X. ■ . . FAMILY CIRCLE 8/10/82 The Troubles We’ve Seen Sunday morning, between the hours of 7 and 9:30, is the as money supply neared depletion, someone had suggested favorite time for calling the Green Section agronomist to ihat a good many dollars could be saved by reducing the discuss golf course troubles. thickness of topsoil on greens from 12 inches to 6 inches. It is true that this is the time when he’s most likely to be There is no question that the quantity of topsoil needed home. But it may not be the time when you’ll find the on greens is an expensive item but it is our opinion that it agronomist in a humor to be greatly sympathetic to your would be poor economy to save money by sacrificing problems, particularly when the club has encountered quality of putting greens. The normal minimum recommen­ troubles through deliberate actions that could have been dations for topsoil depth is 12 inches. Inasmuch as 20 to 25 avoided. percent skrinkage is common, the green eventually is Clubs could save themselves many troublesome and covered with about a 9 inch depth. expensive situations if they asked questions BEFORE they The Nature of Drainage took actions. It is a distressing fact that relatively few golf At a golf course where greens are old, compact and course problems we encounter are caused by uncontrollable chronically troublesome, water was found to be standing in factors. Rather, they are brought about by poor the cup. Water had been applied about 36 to 40 hours pre­ manangement, poor construction, or a misunderstanding of viously. The Green Section representative took the occasion plant growth principles. to point out that drainage was poor and that this was one of These points probably can be illustrated most vividly by the factors concerned with shallow roots and unhealthy turf. reciting some of the trouble calls that have come to one A rather heated discussion followed. The greens were Green Section office during the past year. To save possible rolling and the surface permitted ready run-off ot excess embarrassment to the club, the accounts are fictionalized to water. Club members maintained that these were well- some degree, but all are based on actual cases. If a club drained greens. From the standpoint of SURFACE member should recognize his own club’s problem among drainage, the members were right, but internal drainage or those presented here, he may take comfort in the fact that ready movement of water through the soil is the other there are very few original mistakes and there are members aspect of good drainage. Surface drainage is important but of other clubs who think it is ‘their’ problem which is being it is not enough. Water that moves into the soil must also be aired. allowed to move out. “Drainage by Theory” Credit: USGA Green Section A new drainage theory was incorporated into the new greens established at one long established club in the South­ west. Essentially, the system involved the placement of a permeable seedbed mixture about 8 inches deep over a com­ pacted, impermeable subgrade. Theoretically, water moves easily downward to the compacted soil and then outward to the edge of the green. The system works, except when water is applied too rapidly (as frequently happens in the case o INDISPENSABLE? rain) or when the slope is so long that water comes to the surface before it reaches the edge of the green. Some day whan you’re feeing Important It appears likely that these greens may need to be rebuilt Soma day whan your ago’s In bloom again. The cost to the club for testing this theory will be Soma day whan you hava the feeing considerable. You’ra tha moat important man In tha room, The Green Section has been involved with investigations of green construction methods for many years and has Taka a buckat and fill It with watar, devised a construction procedure that has been proven to Stick your hand In up la tha wrist. work well. We urge clubs to investigate thoroughly the Pul It out, and tha hola that remains merits of this procedure before undertaking to build greens Is a maasura of how much you I ba missed. on the basis of an idea that sounds attractive but which has not been tried. You may splash all you wish whan you enter, Sttr tha water around galore, Can We Buy Short Cups? But you find whan you finally leave It, At a golf course in the process of construction the green It’s exactly tha same as before. chairman greeted the agronomist with the question, “So you know where we can buy shallow cups?” It developed that So, as you follow your dally agenda, the club was running short of money; the golf course had Always do tha bast that you can. been designed on a rather elaborate scale with large greens, Be proud of yourself, but remember— tees and bunkers. Much effort had gone into the There Is no tndfcpensable man. development of costly ponds and other artifical beauty spots. Now, however, as the course neared completion and Author Unknown “When you see people as they are, you leave them as they Rusting On Your Laurels are, but when you see them as they are capable of becoming . . . you help them to be what they can be. ” Presentation by J. Sterling Livingston, a Harvard professor, wrote in the James Arch, President Harvard Business Review, referring to it as the Pygmalion James Arch and Associates, Maitland, Florida Effect in Management . . . the self-fulfilling prophecy. We at U Mass Turfgrass Conference get what we EXPECT from people. If you look at your people as ineffective, incapable, you will expect poor perfor­ The title of this presentation is RUSTING on your laurels, mance from your people. When you have high regards, not resting. Recently I was reading in a book published by expect high performance, that is what you will get. Prentice-Hall which said it very well when it said, “When Such a person was Robert Browning, the poet. He saw you are green you can grow but when you are ripe, you start people as they were capable of becoming and had high to go rotten.” expectations. His attitude and love, respect and adoration A few Sundays ago, on a church marquee in Winter Park for Elizabeth Barrett breathed the breath of life into her. was written, “The road to self-improvement is ALWAYS Elizabeth Barrett was one of 11 children, the daughter of an under construction.” Another way of expressing it is “when oppressive, tyrannical, negative, bad tempered, critical, we cease to grow we start to go” or “we don’t grow domineering father. His tight control, fits of rage, made the old . . .when we stop growing we are old.” That may be at very sensitive and frail Elizabeth very nervous and sick. She 20 or need not be at 80. was a bed-ridden invalid for most of her first 40 years of For example, a teenager may be too tired to cut the grass life. That was until she met Robert Browning. He did not while a 75 year old grandma who knows the grandchildren .see Elizabeth that way. He saw her as a warm, loving, kind, are coming for the weekend will clean the house, bake a thoughtful person. Elizabeth described this relationship and cake and cookies and have unlimited energy. her life as being a flower opening up. He gave her a new Dr. Robert Schuller expressed it very well. He says that brcji’ ot lik and thus she built her self worth and self well meaning people often say to him, “Dr. Schuller, I hope esteem you live long enough to achieve all your dreams and ambi­ They were married, took an extensive, exhausting trip tions.” His reply is always the same, “I hope I don’t throughout Europe which she handled beautifully. She gave because if I do, I will have died before I die.” birth to a child (after age 40); both did fine. She wrote the Throughout life our continuing purpose in GROWTH. “Sonnets of the Portugese” and the very famous poem, William James, the Harvard professor, said we use only “How Do I Love Thee.” 10% of our potential. More recent psychologists such as Dr. All because of the expectations of another person. Herbert Otto and Dr. Eric Fromm say it is closer to 3 or One of the seven key attitudes in life is that of EXPEC- 4%. In any event, we all have room for continuous growth. T AT1ON. Let us right now spread some high expectations Last year I received a call from a gentleman who identified to each other. himself as Sherburn Ruprecht, who said he had sat in on a The success of this meeting is because of the person you talk I gave to a group of life insurance general agents and e sitting with. Please turn to the person on your left and agency managers and he liked what I said and how it was ; eht and behind you and say this to each one, “1 am proud said, and he would like me to give a talk at his annual ? .ou and glad you are here.” awards banquet for his people and do a seminar for them. W ill you please answer this question by a show of hands, We made all the necessary arrangements. Then I asked 'How many of you believe you are normal?” That was an Sherman to tell me about his organization. interesting response. First we had a few people who thought He told me he was the agency manager for the Lutheran th.y were normal. Then people began to look around and Brotherhood Fraternal Life Insurance for Lutherans which .bought they had better become normal, so more hands started in 1918. He came to Florida 4 years ago when the went up. Then more. Well, you normal ones are the people Florida agency was 70th out of 82 . . . now, 4 years later, it I need to talk to. is in 4th place. The fastest agency in the 63 years they have I here is no such thing as human behavior without a been in business. He also pointed out that his agents can sell .t on. It is the natural law of C AUSE and EFFECT. Did only to Lutherans, which means that instead of having 8 it know that the bee flies 1000 miles to gather sufficient million prospects in the state of Florida they have only nectar to make one pound of honey. Just imagine such a 100,000 and this includes women and children. This growth tiny thing flying 1000 miles. The work, the struggle, the took place during difficult years from business and financial time. After all that effort and energy, what happens? We points of view. steal it! Do you understand why the bee has such a lousy Then I said, “Sherburn, anyone who can bring an agency disposition . . . under those circumstances, wouldn’t you from 70th to 4th in that short period of time must have a sting too!!! great philosophy in building an organization; what is it?” About 4000 years ago, a Hindu mystic wrote in archaic Fortunately, I had a sheet of paper handy and I wrote down Sanskrit on a papyrus scrit the key to the mastery of life in ,what he said. It ought to be written in large bronze letters so just seven words. It is the key to all success and failure. The all can see it each day. This is what he said. key to happiness and the cause of worry. Down through the “Our business is building people . . . when you build ages philosophers and psychologists have agreed that what people in knowledge, personal abilities, income, they he wrote, “As one's thinking is—.such one becomes. “Two become self-sufficient, then production follows.” thousand years later, the Roman emperor and philosopher When he said this, it reminded me of what Wolfgang von Marcus Aurelius said the same things when he ga^e us eight Goethe wrote about management . . . words that will TRANSFORM our lives: “Our lives are what our thoughts make them. ” Cont lnued About 26 years ago, I was at the home of Dale and Continue^ Dorothy Carnegie in Forest Hills, N.Y. and I asked Mr. Carnegie, “You are writing biographies of famous people, computers plus billions of miniature microfilm cartridges. interviewing well known personalities on radio, and have To duplicate these things, it would take a building as big helped thousands of people to attain greater success; what is as the Empire State Building, weigh tons, and take the the biggest lesson you ever learned in life?“ I thought he power of Niagara Falls to operate it, and would cost bil­ would have to think about an answer, bui he didn’t. He lions. If it could be made, it still would not think, reason, responded immediately and said, “That is easy to answer. exercise choice, make decisions, be creative, nor have feel­ By far, the most vital lesson I ever learned is the importance ing. We have all these qualities. of what we think. Our mental attitude is the X factor that* Now, I would like to mention a magic word which is the determines our fate.“ He then quoted Emerson who said, secret of happiness, the foundation of psychiatry, the basis “/4 man is what he thinks about all all day long. “. . . “But of mental health, and will give the strength to face all how could it be anything else? Think happy thoughts and problems of life. Yet, when you see it in a newspaper or you will be happy.“ magazine, you would not even think about it. Even so, it is The Buddhists say, “All, yes all that we are, is the result a magic word. The word is ATTITUDE. The way we look of what we have thought.“ at things, state of mind, the posture we take. It may be neg­ Dr. Norman Vincent Peale in a recent speech said, “This ative, positive, or even neutral. Dr. Walter Scott, President is the greatest natural law in the universe and fervently do I of Northwestern University, said, “Success or failure in wish I had known it when I was a >oung man . . . but I did business is caused more by mental attitudes than by mental not. I did not know it when I was 20, 30, 40 or even 50 . . . capacities.” William James said, “The greatest discovery of it is the greatest discovery in my life other than my relation­ this generation is that human beings can alter their lives by ship with God. Simply stated it is this: “When >ou think in altering their attitudes of mind.” negative terms, you will get negative results . . . when you To illustrate the importance of attitude—prior to May think in positve terms, you will get positive results.“ Exactly 6th, 1954, no human had ever run a mile in less than 4 what the Hindu mystic said. minutes. Sports writers, coaches, athletes and doctors said it In the Bible, in Proverbs, is stated, “As a man thinketh is physically impossible for the human body to run a mile in in his heart, so is he.“ Now we have an additional word in less than 4 minutes. Then it happened. On thursday, May this statement, the word ‘heart.’ To understand that in 6th, at Oxford, England, at a meet at Oxford University, modern day understanding, it would read: “As a person Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute barrier running the mile thinks sub-consciously, so is that person.” in 3:59.4. On August 19, 1981, at the Zurich Invitational At birth, we are given a piece of equipment that, if it had Track and Field Meet at Zurich, Switzerland ran the fastest to be replaced, could not be replaced for a billion dollars. mile an American had ever run. He did it in 3:53.98 . . . but This amazing unit will enable us to BE the person we want he came in 8th. The first ten runners came in under the to be, HAVE the things we want to have, and DO the things ‘impossible’ 4-minute barrier. The winner of the Zurich we want to do. Unfortunately, we have not told how to to event was Sebastian Coe from Sheffield, England, who operate it. So instead of our running it, it runs us. It is the knocked 11 seconds off Roger Bannister’s first mile under 4 most magnificent, awesome creation anywhere. Scientists minutes. Just imagine how far a miler can run in the last 11 cannot explain how it works; they do not know. seconds of the race. The only change is attitude. No longer The average brain weighs 2 to 3 pounds and like the rest do they say it cannot be done. of the body it is about 75% water, which means the mineral Most people fail to exercise the greatest power they content is about 10 to 12 ozs. It is about the size of half a possess—the power to choose. Instead of reacting to things grapefruit. The cortex, the outer 1 /8th of an inch, has 500 that happen to us, we have the power to ACT. We can billion neurons. It has memory banks within it that expose what we think and what we think, we become. store more information than is in the Smithsonian Institute! It records everything we see, hear, and think. It is a XerQX Credit: Tee to Green copying machine, a Polaroid camera, a Betamax video tape recorder, a technicolor wode screen projector, 1000 I.B.M. At our Sept. Annual Meeting, Mike Garvale, Leon Powell and Jim Tollefson were elected to the Board of Directors for 3 year terms. At the same time, Tom Reed was elected for a 2 year term and Is the first Class "G" member to serve. At the October meeting, new officers for 1983 will be elected. We would also like to publically thank Pred Bond and Dave Longfleld for their kind contribution of their time, effort and advise during their long tenure as members of the Board. October 31 ends our fiscal year and the new year of 1983 starts November 1st. This means that your new dues are payable so please make the Job of your fellow member Sec.-Treas. easier by sending In your check. Dues for 1983 are the same as In 1980, there will be no increase. The POSTCARD please so Fairview Hills will know the number being present. This will be our last meeting of the present season. The gals will have theblg party on October 9th, please bring her so we may know the boss in your family. Thanks.