CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS Information

The CAGCS Superintendent of the Year Award is our association's most treasured award and is given annually to an active Class A or Life member who has been a CAGCS Class A member for at least five years, a person who has shown exemplary skills in maintaining a golf facility and has devoted his or her time and effort to help benefit fellow superintendents and local and national golf associations. The Superintendent of the Year Award is bestowed upon the recipient by his or her peers and is determined by a mail-in ballot from all voting members. The winner of this award is not eligible for consideration again for 15 years. This year's recipient began his career-probably unknowingly-by starting his own landscape business while he was in high school. Bob continued his education at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at the University of Massachusetts and completed his education at the University of Rhode Island. His first position as a golf course superintendent was at the East Greenwich Country Club in Rhode Island. He was a very active member of the Rhode Island Golf Course Superintendents Association, and served that association working on many committees and eventually served as its President. Bob joined CAGCS in 1970, about the same time he took on the superintendent's position at the Shennecossett Golf Course in Groton, CT, where he is beginning his 27th year. Since 1970 he has continuously served our association by chairing the Public Relations Committee, as well as working on many others, including Scholarship & Research. His first position on the board was that of Vice President and thereafter served as our President in 1988 and 1989. Bob has been on and off the board serving a total of 12 years. He has never said "no" to any request, and he is still active in CAGCS business, as he is presently working on our history to contribute to the National's endeavor of saving the history of the golf course superintendent. While being educated at U-Mass and URI, Bob recognized the importance of GCSAA's ...