'06-'07 Minutes
September 12, 2006
Attending: Dan Vetere, Ryan Avery, Lindsey Hoffman, Jason Dowgiewicz, Joe
Gikis, Marc Mimmo, Steve Hicks, Nate Salamore, James Poro, Matt Sterns
Discussions:
1.) Sending 8-10 students to California to participate in the Turf Bowl and
Represent the UMass/Stockbridge Turf Program
- Estimated cost for the minimum of 8 students would be about $5600 for
airfare and accommodations
- A goal of $10,000 has unofficially been set in order to engage two teams of
4 students in the Turf Bowl
2.) Fundraising ideas for California trip:
-Football Tailgate
- Sell burgers, hotdogs, drinks and possibly raffle tickets outside one
of the afternoon football games
- Nate is going to talk to the athletic director and find out if any
permits or permission is necessary from the school in order to do such
an activity
-Ideas for raffle tickets ranged from lawn care to a Turf Club collared shirt
- Only problem with lawn care would be getting a truck and/or equipment
-Par 3 fundraiser at the Joe Troll tournament at Westchester C.C. New York
-Sell raffle tickets on the par 3's for a little prize for closet to the pin
-Raffle tickets would most likely range from $5-$10.
- Steve will email Steve Curry and see if this would be possible
-Citrus box
- Each student will have a chance to sell boxes of citrus from a company in
Florida
- Estimated profit per box sold is $11
- Must sell the fruit in advance and deliver the fruit ourselves
- Usually will take place around Thanksgiving
- Contact Martha Baker from NRE and inquire if we can do anything for the NRE
auction
- Maybe offer our services for lawn care or other services for a denotation
from NRE
- Offering our expertise and services for winterizing clients lawns
- sending emails out to Plant and Soil Science facility
- Offer free soil tests. From the soil tests set-up up a fertilizing/liming
program to obtain optimum turfgrass quality in the future
- Dr. Ebdon has the equipment necessary to provide such a service
- Members will set up a price to receive such donations for services
- Work on setting up emails to different Turf companies to see if they will
donate money to the club
- Examples would be Turf links, Lesco, TPC, etc.
Goals
Recruiting freshman into the club in order to keep it going when senior
officers move on
- Our main goal aside from going to California to compete in the Turf Bowl
is
bringing the UMass name back into the industry
- Talk to freshman students about the business, internships and help them
perform at these internships to their highest ability possible
- Many of the current members have worked at big courses and if we can get
freshman into these big courses they have a chance to put UMass back on the
map
- Let them know about future possibilities like attending the national show
in the future, field trips to different events ( Joe Troll, Fenway)
- Offer them speakers from the business, (superintendents, sport
superintendents, salesmen from companies)
- Offer them assistance in their school work, give them tips and help with
their current school work.
9/20/06
9/20/06
Member minutes: Dan Vetere, Marc Mimmo,Nate Salamore, Steve Hicks, Ryan Avery,
Geek, John Micklus, James Poro, Matt Sterns, Lindsey Hoffman, Jason
Dowgiewicz, Kevin Haslam, Ian Bass, Phillip Bathalon, Matthew Korlowski, Shawn
Spear, Toney Moughan, Ryan Messier, Tim Kurr, Jake Ledgard, Ben Polzin, Kevin
Peters, Weston Neff, Michael Marciano, Joseph Durell, Eric Still, Nathan Doty,
Greg Atanasio, Ryan Bjorn, Anthony Delaiarro, Craig Strobl, Dan Lambrecht, Joe
Kane, Nick Beaulien, Tyler Stafford, Michelle DaCosta, Ben Walworth, Ryan
Dehlinger
New Member introduction
-Acting members talked to incoming members of about 27 on what the turf
club is about
-Topics talked about
-Internships
-Projects that we have done and want to do
-What we foresee in the future of the club
-The importance of networking with people in the business
-TPC Renovations
-The New England Turf Show
-Information about our website, GCSAA, and GCSAA New England
-The renovation to the Umass sports field
-The renovation of a lacross field in Tewksbury, MA for learning
purposes
-Offered collar Turf Club shirts to new members with a cost of
$18-$20
-Making up a list of superintendents that graduated Umass for
networking
Post meeting topics discussed among officers
-Participating at the NRE field day Friday the 29th of September
-possibly set up a raffle to raise money, lawn services, etc
-have samples of turf, answers questions about lawns
-Meeting at the turf plots to get to know eachother Tuesday 26th
-Meet with Martha Baker to discuss starting money and future revenue
-Set up an account for all of our fundraising money to go into
-Send letters to numerous turf companies
-Offer them advertisment on the website or booths
-Line up speakers for the meetings
-people from all aspects of the turf field
-superientendents, salesmen,professors
-talk about different topics like budgeting,chemical,fertilizer programs
-come up with 4 questions for each speaker to talk about
-Order new shirts for new members, fundraisers and to sell
