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Wilkie Turf Equipment Company 3 MICHIGAN AND BORDER CITIES G O LF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION P R E S I D E N T GERALD GILL TAM-O-SHANTER COUNTRY CLUB 3466 Walnut Lake Road Orchard Lake. Michigan Off. and Res. 626-8325 V I C E P R E S I D E N T GEORGE PRIESKORN 5341 Brighton Road (Res.) Brighton. Michigan 48116 Res. 227-1381 BURROUGHS FARMS GOLF CLUB S E C R E T A R Y - T R E A S U R E R BOB HOPE LOCHMOOR COUNTRY CLUB 20740 Marter Road Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan 48236 Off. 881-8112, Res. 884-8684 B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S C. H. WOLFROM, JR. DETROIT GOLF CLUB Detroit. Michigan 530 Kendry (Res.) ALBERT KALTZ MAPLE LANE GOLF CLUB Sterling Hgts.. Michigan Off. 268-2130. Res. 463-2892 ROGER GILL 1894 Alton Circle PINE LAKE COUNTRY CLUB Walled Lake, Michigan 48088 Off. 681-1322, Res. 624-6931 WILLIAM W. MILNE COUNTRY CLUB OF DETROIT Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan Off. 881-8000. Res. 886-9319 220 C.C. Drive BAY POINTE GOLF CLUB DONALD LA FOND 3635 Union Lake Road Union Lake, Michigan Res. 363-1142 JAMES G. VLASSIS 709 Devonshire LAKE LANDS GOLF CLUB Brighton, Michigan 48116 P R E S I D E N T E ME RI TU S OAKLAND HILLS COUNTRY CLUB TED WOEHRLE Birmingham. Michigan Off. 644-3352, Res. 646-8512 Newly Elected MBCGCSA Officers Gerald G ill, newly elected president of the Michigan and Border Cities G olf Course Superintendents Association. Gerald is the Superintendent of Tam-O-Shanter Country Club, Orchard Lake, Michigan. Below: G e o r g e Prieskorn, newly elected Vice- P r e s i d e n t of the MBCGCSA. G e o r g e is Superintendent of Burroughs Farms Golf Club, in Brighton, Michigan. P a / n & B ir d . IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO MEET THE MOST DEMANDING WATERING REQUIREMENTS OF ANY GOLF COURSE. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS ( 3 1 3 ) 5 4 3 * 7 7 3 0 3890 WEST ELEVEN MILE ROAD BERKLEY, M I C H I G A N 4 8 0 7 2 Winter and As the winter season approaches, a good many superintendents are able to turn their thoughts away from the day- to-day routine of maintaining their courses and begin to make their long- range plans. Often times these plans are restricted to the course itself in form of o p e n i n g a new nine, the winterizing the course, or planning new procedures. Unfor­ tunately, little thought is given to the individual and his personal needs. superintendent operating Just as any golf course will soon become second-rate and weed filled without proper care and constant fertilization, so should the minds of the superintendents be considered and cared for. This less busy time of year seems to be ideal for consideration of additional education. A ll too frequently, superintendents think that education is just for the other guy, when in fact the process of becoming better informed can never r e a l l y stop. New developments, requirements and regulations dictate constant awareness and learning. In the is often times thought of as coming only from a traditional classroom. Both of these lines of thought are dangerous for the serious superintendent. same vein, education There are a number of excellent regional and national seminars and workshops just waiting for interested Area S u p e rin te n d e n ts New Superintendents in the area: Gary Chamberlain to Wabeek Country Club. Gary comes from Ohio (Jack Nicklaus Golf Center). Craig Marfia to Knollwood Country Club from the Elks C.C. in Kalamazoo. Roger Barton to Dearborn Country Club from Grand Haven Golf Club, Grand Haven, Michigan. Education ^ A Great Pair Also, designed education there courses are superintendents. continuing for adults, operated through high schools, which offer a wide variety of courses which could be of great value. GCSAA educational programs should not be overlooked. The Certification Program, National Conferences and Seminar Series, offer superintendents inspiring programs to their needs. Turfgrass are obvious educational avenues to pursue when further schooling is considered, but courses in business administration, bookkeeping, speech, English, public relations and human relations should be included in the list of possibilities, as the superintendent’ s job requires that he also must perform in non-turf areas. specifically courses of the courses If seminars, college short-courses, e v e n i n g or Association programs are eliminated from consider­ ation, a superintendent can always look toward self-education. Although this requires greater discipline on the part individual, and great expectations are sometimes not quite realized, a great deal of information can often times be gained from such a procedure. Usually, there are also many people ready, willing and able to assist any serious individual if help is sought to overcome a particularly difficult problem during a self-educa­ tion experience. A ll in all, education cannot stop, but the winter season slow-down, to the extent it exists, a f f o r d s the superintendent an opportunity to attend a seminar or even read that book he has been longingly gazing at all summer, an opportunity that should not be missed. 5 Agronomie Service Award to Daniel Since 1950, Dr. B ill Daniel has traveled, talked, taught and tested turf ideas through­ out the Midwest & the U.S.A. Always willing to say yes, Dr. Bill Daniel Something To Think About Are you an active member, The kind that would be missed, Or are you just contented That your name be on the list? Do you attend the meetings And mingle with the flock; Or do you stay at home And criticize and knock? Do you take an active part To help the work along; Or are you satisfied to be The kind that just belong? Do you ever go to visit A member who is sick? Or leave the work to just a few And talk about the clique? Think this over, member You know right from wrong; Are you an active member Or do you “ just belong” ? Anon. he kept an open o f f i c e door and willingly tackled turf problems. Each year an award for Agronomic Service is made by a Study Committee (based on detailed nominations) for the over 8,000 members of the American Society of Agronomy. It recognizes one individual for service to his field in developing and using a g r o n o m i c programs. In November, Daniel received the A. S. A. award at the 1973 meeting. He served as Secretary and Chairman of C-5 Turfgrass Division in 58-59 and as Director of A. S. A. in 1960-63. In 1963 he was elected a Fellow of the Society. He has presented 27 papers in 23 years. Over 25 graduate students and 100 have worked with undergraduates Daniel in the training and research programs at Purdue. A ll students who want extra labor can work on turf as their schedules permit. Averaging about 60 trips per year (about half out-of-state), Daniel has observed and advised on many turf problems. As Executive Secretary of the Midwest Regional Turf Foundation and planner of the annual Midwest Turf Conference (over 700 attending), the research at Purdue has been readily reported. ProTurf Helping the superintendent through turf research... 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DETROIT, MICH. 48227 (313) 491 -0606 7 Building Ready-Open House Planned Arrangements for a January 12 open house and ribbon cutting ceremony were finalized by the GCSAA Executive Committee when they met recently for their the newly completed boardroom of the Associa­ tion’ s national headquarters building. fall m e e t i n g new in Special invitations will be sent to the more than 3,600 GCSAA members, i n v i t a t i o n s being with personal e x t e n d e d to the 26 living Past National Presidents. City and state government as well as representatives of the USGA, PGA and CMAA w ill be invited to help celebrate the opening. officials, The Executive Committee has planned a member only, pre-showing T h e M etric S y s te m The most difficult part of learning the metric system is unlearning our present units of measurement. Here are some new measurements that you may encounter in the near future. You may be buying a 15 meter garden hose or a four liter bucket of paint or a 20 millimeter socket wrench. Gasoline will be measured in liters. Your new bathroom scale will be in kilograms. Temperatures will be in Centigrade where 0 degrees Centigrade will be equal to 32 degrees Fahrenheit if the temperature is 15 degrees so Centigrade, it will be cool but not cold. The “ metrication” of our system will gain speed as time moves on. Our yards w ill become meters and acres will become hectars. Prepare now for the future - study the m e t r i c system and enjoy its “ simplicity.” from 9 to 12 Saturday morning with a continental breakfast, followed by the official ribbon cutting ceremony at 1 o’clock, with building tours until 5 PM. After s t u d y i n g more than 140 possible cities, the Special Committee on the GCSAA Headquarters Building, composed of C h a i r m a n Clifford Wagoner, CGCS, Del Rio Golf and Country Club, Modesto, CA; Ted Woehrle, CGCS, Oakland Hills Country Club, Troy, MI and Paul Mechling, S y l v a n i a Country Club, CGCS, Sylvania, OH, chose L a w r e n c e , Kansas, because of its central US location and other advantages such as employment, housing, taxes, schools and recreation facilities. A city of nearly 50,000, Lawrence is the home of Kansas University and Haskell Indian Junior College. The Douglas County seat of government is situated 35 minutes west of Kansas City and 25 minutes east of Topeka, the Kansas state capital. [ ' j i I 1 Begun in March, but delayed by unusually heavy the 6,000 square-foot building was occupied by the office staff on November 16. rains, Set well back on its wooded lot, the native stone and rough hewn wood structure overlooks two greens of the Alvamar Hills Golf Course, where Mel Anderson is the course manager. The walk-out basement under half of the V-shaped building will be used for storage, but this space will also provide room for future expansion. The development of a new product is said to be a three step process: first, an American firm announces an invention; next, the Russians claim they made the same discovery twenty years ago; third, the Japanese start exporting it. 8 i Ö R O I Seasons Cmtiqs aid lest Wishes fir the tiling Yiar WILKIE TURF Equipment Company 23455 TELEGRAPH RD., SOUTHFIELD, MICH. 48075 • PHONE: 353-5300 SISC O SALESMEN at your SERVICE MIKE BYRNES has been on the Sisco sales team for seven years and has had specialized training in fie ld installation of irrigation systems. Any questions you may have regarding piping products, sprinklers and valves in your irrigation system, dial for Mike at 548-7272. Sprinkler Irrigation Supply Company, Division of A. J. Miller, Inc., 1316 N. Campbell Rd. Royal Oak, Mich. 48067, (313) 548-7272 Chicago (312) 629-7730, Kalamazoo (616) 381-0506, ENGINEERED RAIN ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING THE MICHIGAN AND BORDER CITIES GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION? F ill in the questionaire below and mail to: N A M E O F I N T E R E S T E D P ER S ON D A T E A LB ER T K ALTZ Maple Lane Golf Club Sterling Heights, Mich. 48077 Phone: Off. 268-2130, Res. 463-2892 M A I L I N G A D D R E S S ___________________________________ __________________ _ _ C I T Y ________________________________________ S T A T E _________________ Z IP ____ Or you may contact the next golf course supplier who calls on you and give him the information needed for application. 10 GCSAA Team Represents USA Another first occurred this year for GCSAA when it represented golf course superintendents and the United States the British G olf Greenkeepers at Association’s international golf tournament superintendents and greenkeepers in Suffolk, England. first for With Bob Mitchell, CGCS, The Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier, White WV, acting as Executive Committee representative, player alternate and the GCSAA team of team captain, Frank Lamphier, Aspetuck Valley Country Club, Weston, C T ; Dave Linde, W e d g e w o o d G olf Course, Allentown, P A ; and Robert Martino, Montgomery Village G olf Course, Gaithersburg, MD, was selected to attend the competition at the Wood- G olf Club, W o o d b r i d g e , bridge b e c a u s e of their 1-2-3 England, in the GCSAA 1973 Tourna­ finishes ment championship flight at Hilton Head Island, SC. team Co-sponsored by Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., of Ipswich, and the BGGA, the tournament commemora­ ted the B G G A ’s 60th anniversery. The USA in third place, the Scottish and Canadian behind Associations’ teams. The 36-hole event was played in one day (without carts or caddies), using the Stapleford handicapping system where only the finished TURFGRASS J f i l TWO COMPLETE SEED INVENTORIES Merion Baron Winter Green Fylking Nugget Norlea C O W B E L L S E E D S TELEPHONE WAYLAND 616-792-2241 / score of the top team member is scored for each hole. Total points rather than strokes determine the winners, with one point given for a bogie, two for par, etc. Mitchell reported some interesting turf conditions such as the native gorse and heather which made many balls about 99 per cent unplayable, and therefore placed a premium on accurate driving. a t t e n d e d Following the tournament, the team also first British Turfgrass Symposium, with Mitchell serving as a p a n e l i s t during the morning session of the one day event. the a welcome Both during the tournament and the and useful symposium exchange of in attendance promoted a better under­ standing of turf maintenance around the world. ideas between all Turfgrass C o n fe re n c e MSU 44th Annual Michigan Turfgrass Conference January 15-16, 1974. The Kellogg Center for Continuing Education Michigan State University, also Save money by pre-registering. 5th Annual Basic Turfgrass Training School on Monday afternoon, January 14th. ---- SPECIALISTS GOLD TAG SEED QUALITY BLENDS Special Mixes for your l WAYLAND \ MICHIGAN V 49348 ★ BRIGHTON MICHIGAN 48116 particular need ^ I N C O R P O R A T E D / ----------- 1 BRIGHTON 313-229-6169 GRAND RAPIDS 616-877-4614 11 From The Los Angeles Times What’s a Gas Station, Dad? “ Daddy, tell me again, what it was like in 1973 when anyone who wanted to could drive a car.” “ I know you’re not going to believe this, son, but all you had to do was to drive up to a gas station and say to the attendant, ‘ F ill ‘ er up!’ And you know what? He had to wipe your wind­ shield too, or you wouldn’t buy any gas from him.” “ Aw come on daddy, you’re putting me on.” “ I’ m telling the truth, son. And not only that, but we used to have these big cars - three times the size of the ones you see now - with four doors and air conditioning and everything. Some of them got nine, ten miles to a gallon. I think there are some pictures of them in the encyclopedia here.” YOU’ RE EN TITLED TO TH E BEST Call Us For Your Needs GOLF COURSE CHEMICALS | (You’ ll get it - and more!) | Herb Carson Marvin Rothman AM ERICAN R ES EAR C H C O RP. 11840 MAYFIELD AVE. LIVONIA, MICH 48150 (313) 522-2400 Ext. 2401/2402 12 “ Gosh, those were some cars.” “ In those days you could drive your car to work or to the city all alone i without violating the law. You’d see * people wagons all by themselves.” in eight passenger station “ Is it true you could drive to the beach or to the mountains or to a football game 100 miles away without getting a s p e c i a l pass from the Automobile Authority?” “ Yup. One time your mother and I drove all the way to Florida, and we didn’t have to ask permission from a soul. We just went.” “ What happened, daddy?” “ Nobody really knows. People just kept using up gasoline and oil until there was none left. I remember in ‘ 73 that Detroit announced it had its greatest year. Sold more big cars than anytime in history.” “ But nobody bothered to tell Detroit there would be nothing to put in the big gas tanks. They said it wasn’t their problem.” “ It was really funny because in Washington they were arguing about automobile pollution and the emission standards for 1976 when, in fact, the problem solved itself. There was no fuel left to pollute anything.” “ Why didn’t Detroit build smaller cars that wouldn’t use so much gaso­ line?” they for said Americans “ Because wouldn’t go it. They said that Americans had always had big cars, and that they had deserved big cars because big cars are what made America great.” “ Of course now they have no choice but to m a n u f a c t u r e two cylinder automobiles because that’ s the only kind of car Americans can afford. I mean when gas is selling for $9.50 a Next Page What is a Gas Station Dad? Cont. gallon and you’ve got r a t i o n i n g coupons, nobody in his right mind is going to make a four cylinder car.” “ Is that why we moved back to the city, because you couldn’t drive to work any more?” “ Yup. We lived in the suburbs when you were very little, but when the country ran out of gaso­ line we had to move back here. Oh, I tried bicycling to work, but it was 40 miles each way and I was pretty pooped by the time I got home. So we came back. And it was curious because up until that time blacks lived in the c i t i e s and w h i t e s in the suburbs.” lived “ Now, of course, all the whites live in the cities and the blacks live in the suburbs because that’ s the only housing the blacks can afford. The blacks didn’t want to go to the suburbs but the whites kept buying up the ghettos and the blacks had no choice. They’re probably happier out there anyway, living among their own kind.” “ Who was to blame for our running out of gasoline?” “ Detroit blamed it on Ralph Nader, the President blamed it on Congress, the Arabs blamed it on Israel and the oil companies blamed it on the caribou in Alaska.” “ It must have been fun living in 1973.” “ It was. Do you know that one time we drove 30 miles just to have a sirloin steak?” “ What’ s a steak?” “ Oh, the hell with it. It hurts too much to talk about it.” Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art. - BLISS CARMAN As scarce as truth is, the supply seems greater than the demand. - ADLAISTEVENSON SNOW MOLD — AND ITS CONTROL CALO-GRAN < M allinckrodt > . STOP snow mOLD ' COLD! DU PONT TURFGRASS, INC. 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SCHWARTZKOPF, Mid-Continent Agronomist USGA — Green Section fellow important, The next time one of your em­ ployees, staff members or peers say “ I am only one person, the organization I’ m not following doesn’t need me.” The from my old paragraph, as Underwood it was repaired, may be a motivating factor in showing him, yourself, myself that everyone and everything is important. typewriter before it came Xvxn though my typxwritxr is an old modxl, it works quitx wxll xxcxpt for onx of thx kxys. I wishxd many timxs that it workxd pxrfxctly. It is trux thxrx arx 46 othxr kxys that function wxll xnough, but just onx kxy not working makxs thx diffxrxncx. Somxtimxs it sxxms that our Golf Club is somxwhat likx my typxwritxr - not all thx kxy pxoplx arx working propxrly. You may say to yoursxlf, “ Wxll, I am only onx pxrson. I won’t makx or brxak a program.” But it doxs makx a diffxrxncx bxcause a country club or golf coursx program, to bx xffxctivx, nxxds thx activx participation of xvxry pxrson. So thx nxxt timx you think you arx only onx pxrson and that your xfforts arx not nxxdxd, rxmxmbxr my typxwritxr and say to yoursxlf: “ I am a kxy pxrson I am nxxdxd vxry much.” thx opxration and in The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. - THOMAS JEFFERSON Reason often makes mistakes, but - J. BILLINGS conscience never does. Old age is that time of life when you know all the answers and nobody asks you the questions. 14 Bob Kirkpatrick John Macfarlane Burt Bradshaw Gordon Lafontaine LAWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION 520 WEST 11 MILE ROAD, ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN 48068 (313) 398-3636 15 i Season’s Greetings from Hal Vogler and the W F. 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