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KEEPERS OF THE TURF A sampling of Stockbridge-trained supers

AS A LATE '80S STOCKBRIDGE GUY, Glenn LaChapelle is among the younger generation of Umie turf czars. Among this fraternity of golf course superintendents are some high rollers at a national level. The address and title of Ted Horton ’67 – Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pebble Beach, California; vice president of resource management – qualify him as a super-superintendent. Mike Wallace ’70S of Connecticut recently ascended to the vice presidency of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America. It was mostly by roaming the capacious links of www.GCSAA.org that we assembled the following list of alumni supers. According to Kevin Osgood ’87S – past president of the New England Superintendents Board of Directors, succeeded by classmate Bob Ruszala - in New England alone there are "loads of other graduates that are golf course superintendents, you have listed just a few." Leonard Blodgett ’61S, Kittansett Club, Marion Fred Scheyhing ’64S, Mount Kisco Country Club, Mount Kisco, New York Edward "Ted" Horton ’67, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pebble Beach, California Paul Miller ’70S, Nashawtuc Country Club, Concord Michael Wallace ’70S, Hop Meadow Country Club, Simsbury, Connecticut William Spence ’74, The Country Club, Brookline Dennis Ingram ’76, TPC of Myrtle Beach, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina Rick Slattery ’76S, Locust Hill Country Club, Pittsford, New York Kevin Osgood ’79S, Newton Commonwealth Country Club, Newton Tom Colombo ’82S, Holly Ridge Golf Club, Sandwich Andrew Dumas ’87S, Widow’s Walk Golf Course, Scituate Jim Reinertson ’87S, Charles River Country Club Bob Ruszala 87S, Hickory Ridge Golf Course, Amherst Jay Snyder ’87S, Blackstone National Golf Club, Sutton Lou Smith ’88, Park Meadows Country Club, Park City, Utah Thomas DeGrandi ’93S, TPC at River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut Russell Heller ’94G, Franklin Park Golf Club, Dorchester

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