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 From the News Desk...GCSAA honors three TurfNet members past and presentThree superintendents with TurfNet ties recently were named recipients of the GCSAA’s 2010 Col. John Morley Distinguished Service Award. Bob Dickison, CGCS, Jim Husting, CGCS, and Doug Petersan were selected by the GCSAA board of directors from nominations submitted by chapter and association members. The award is presented annually to those who have made an “outstanding, substantive and enduring contribution to the advance of the golf course superintendent profession,” according to the GCSAA. They will receive the award Feb. 9 during the GCSAA Education Conference in San Diego. Husting, superintendent at Woodbridge (Calif.) Golf and Country Club and a current TurfNet member, has served the past 13 years as the golf industry’s government relations liaison in California. A past president of the Sierra Nevada and California GCSA chapters, Husting also has served on the GCSAA’s government relations committee in 1997-98 and again in 2008-09. He has played a critical role in helping keep the state’s GCSA chapters up to speed on issues affecting the golf industry there. Bob Dickison, who retired earlier this year after 50 years as superintendent at Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, N.J., holds the distinction of being TurfNet member No. 1 in 1994.Husting, who has been a TurfNet member since 1998, also has established a network of hundreds of industry professionals who receive his government action updates. His work also has resulted in a brochure to educate state lawmakers on the positive environmental impacts of golf as well as funding for research on such pests and diseases as pitch canker, sudden oak death syndrome and fire ant control. Husting also is credited with launching a benchmark study on the financial impact of golf in California A TurfNet member since 2002, Petersan currently serves as a consultant with Austin Golf Club in Spicewood, Texas. He is a past winner of the Nebraska Turfgrass Foundation Distinguished Service Award and is a member of the Nebraska Golf Hall of Fame. The 40-plus golf course superintendents who have learned turf management the Petersan way have banded together to form the “Petersan Society.” Petersan, who also has worked at Fremont (Neb.) Golf Club, Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kan., and Baltimore Country Club’s Five Farms in Timonium, Md., is a past president of the Kansas and Nebraska GCSA chapters. Dickison, who retired earlier this year after 50 years as superintendent at Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, N.J., holds the distinction of being TurfNet member No. 1 in 1994. Among his other accomplishments are overseeing a renovation project in 1960, his first year on the job at Upper Montclair. A past president of the GCSA of New Jersey and the New Jersey Turfgrass Association, he has overseen course conditioning for several professional events and has spoken at several regional, state and national conferences. He has been recognized in the past with the GCSA of New Jersey Distinguished Service Award (1988), Rutgers Turfgrass Alumni Achievement Award (1990), New Jersey Turfgrass Hall of Fame Award (1993) and the Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management Award for Professional Excellence (2003). The Col. John Morley Award is named in honor of the GCSAA’s founder and first president. |
In other news... Study examines spring pre-stress fertility programs Research finds no correlation between biostimulant applications before spring core cultivation and recovery. Posted: 09/02/2010 Read more » Aquatrols, TurfNet present Water Week The series of five Webinars is aimed at helping superintendents manage water and soils more efficiently. Posted: 09/01/2010 Read more » News and people briefs Registration opens soon for Irrigation Show, Briggs & Stratton elects new chairman, FMC taps new director for professional solutions division Posted: 09/01/2010 Read more » GCSAA selects firm in search for new CEO Kansas City-based company will open search process for Mark Woodward's successor in October. Posted: 08/31/2010 Read more » Water foul! Research shows that droppings from non-migratory geese on turf can result in nitrogen runoff into adjacent bodies of water. Posted: 08/26/2010 Read more » Complete news index » |
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