Tuesday, June 9, 2015

The Reunion and Golf Tourney Weekend Was A Triumph In Many Ways

Founder and Keeper of the Beer Clark Haley has emailed most of you with his round-up of the results of this year's Reunion and Golf Tourney Results.  I duplicate them here for those not receiving the emails.  Of special note is the monetary results donated in full to the Coach Groves Scholarship Endowment!

For all of you who made it this year, many thanks as this turned out to be the most successful year yet as it pertains to our financial contribution back to the program - with company match we'll hit just over $6,500 - not bad for a bunch of hackers!  Very special thanks this year to Terry Losch (Owner of Rapid Transit in State College) who was kind enough to donate many of our give-aways and pick up the evening costs for our dinner at "LettermanS" (formerly Damons) on Saturday night (not to mention cutting a healthy check for the program on Saturday afternoon)!  There are many others who have cut checks outside of the golf outing that we have to thank as well - which I'm sure Coach Gondak has already done.  For those of you, contributing other gifts as give aways, thanks - they are always appreciated and help to contain our costs.  Mr. Baskwill, kudos again to you for maintaining the blog and keeping everyone up to date with what's going on!  As an update on our Charlie Hull, he is back at it, running and winning a tri-athalon this past weekend in Maryland.  Seriously, Charlie is back on his feet in good shape and wanted to thank all who shared concern...  
On to the highlights:

Brian Boyer led his team to another victory this year accompanied by Bill Whitaker (Elks Club Professional Golfer), Todd Kletter, and Curt Allison (another numbnut from Lancaster, OH) shooting (-2).  Kelly O'Brien (speaking of numbnuts!) led his team to a very close second place finish - had he not chosen to go for the longest putt on 18th from 30 feet away and taken the 3 foot putt for par for the tie, he may have had his name on the cup (God forbid))!  He was accompanied by Nick K, Steve Balkey, and Mike McCahill at (-1).  There was a tie for third at even par between Bob (I'm not cutting my hair until the year 2030) Gabel's team (with Jim and Mike McClelland and Larry Mangan and my team which was led by Ziggy (John Ziegler) and Mark and Kevin Fuller (who we found out later, made their Harem play golf at another course rather than play in the outing - probably a wise choice with some of the crazies in our bunch!) - maybe next year!  The most honest team was that of Che Arosemena (can't use his nickname in a public forum - golf course yes), Huge Hamill (oh Hugh, sorry), Fullyman (Brian Fuller) and last but certainly not least, Artie (can't anybody hook me up with clubs that don't date back to 1970!) Gilkes!  

The specialty awards this year went to: 1) Longest distance traveled - Jake Bartholomy - Seattle (Sorry Brian, New Mexico's just not far enough away!)

                                                               2) "Ghost Man" - Award for the Alumni whom we have not seen for years or longest tenured
                                                                                          two winners -  teammates from, well, let's say "back in the day" - Bob Szeyller and Richard Gross!

                                                               3) "Brotherhood" award - Tom Kleban - Hate your brother but love ya man!

                                                               4) Shot of the Day - went to Nick K - trying to join the wedding party on the ninth hole - some hillbilly decided

                                                                                          to park their big red pick-em-up truck away from everyone else in the parking lot to keep it from getting

                                                                                          dings... he got a ding alright - ding dong...

                                                               5) Waterbug awards - New this year for all interested golfers wanting to take a dip with their ball!  There were so many

                                                                                          names on the list we had to draw numbers and the lucky skinny dippers were Bill Whitaker and Bob

                                                                                          Hudson - that's like one of those "everybody out of the pool" scenes with Hudson...

                                                               6) My Favorite - The Numbnut Award - Kelly O'Brien,  "just because"...!   You know I'm just bustin' on ya Kelly!

 

That's it!  Again thanks to all who participated - for those of you we missed this year - hopefully we'll see you next year for the 15th annual as the team should be back in town as well...

 

RIP ASS!

CH

2 comments:

  1. Here's a story about Coach Groves and Terry Losch's mutual admiration society. In the late 70s or early 80s we were celebrating Terry's birthday at the Coffee Grinder in Toftrees. Coach Groves, who then lived at Toftrees, left at a reasonable time. The rest of us, about a half dozen, didn't. When we finally asked the waitress for the check, she told us that Coach -- she referred to him as the gray haired gentleman -- had paid the bill as it stood and he left and told the manager he'd be back in the morning to take care of the rest.
    GMcW

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  2. His feeding of the parking meters in downtown State College (just before a ticket was generated) is legendary. And Gary Black and I visited Zeb Stewart at his home 5 or so years ago. We arrived early and Gary was using a cane following his bilateral hip surgeries. His daughters shooed us away because Zeb wasn't home yet. When we returned, Zeb told us we were "the old man and the gray-haired man." Humbling at 45 and 44 years of age!

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