Chapter
room block deadline July 18 Choose a hotel in New Orleans for your
chapter members in advance of housing registration
opening on August 1. Securing a chapter room block
is easy and there’s no attrition risk. The
deadline for requesting a chapter room block is
July 18.
There
are several benefits to reserving a chapter room
block:
Chapter members are guaranteed to be together
at the same hotel
Networking opportunities during breakfast and
evening cocktail and dinner hours
Hotel reservations are protected by professional
travel consultants at Golf Industry Travel
Your chapter could host evening functions at
the same hotel as your chapter room block
For
more information contact Judy
Schelar at 800-472-7878, Ext. 4459, or visit
here.
Mark
your calendar!
The 2008 Chapter Delegates Meeting will be held
on Oct. 24-26 in New Orleans. An invitation will
be emailed to chapter officers, delegates and executives
in mid-July. Registrations are due Aug. 25.
GCSAA
expands TGIF access to all member superintendents The most comprehensive index of turfgrass
information in existence is now available at the
touch of a button to all GCSAA Class A and Superintendent
Members. Try
it out!
Membership
directories coming soon
The 2008 GCSAA Membership Directory will be
mailed soon. All Class A, AA, ART, SM &
SMRT members should start watching for this
popular member benefit in the mail next week.
All other members should call the Member Solutions
Department at 1-800-472-7878 to request a
directory. The delivery date for this year
was delayed because of the conversion of data
to a new database. Also, this early summer
delivery date allows us the ability to provide
more updated information, including membership
milestones, governance documents and membership
applications. We appreciate everyone’s
patience through this process. Questions regarding
the membership directory should be directed
to Scott
Woodhead, GCSAA sr. mgr of governance/member
standards at 800-472-7878, ext. 4418.
GCSAA
Emergency Relief Fund available to members
in need GCSAA knows the
devastation that can be caused by tornados,
floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters,
as well as the unexpected financial stress
often associated with a family medical emergency.
The GCSAA Emergency Relief Fund is designed
to assist members when a disaster and/or
emergency strikes. Learn
more.
GCSAA
Education Conference Web site is now open! The
GCSAA Education Conference Web site is now
open. Check it out on a regular basis for
the most up-do-date information on the 2009
GCSAA Education Conference.
GCSAA
directs membership recruitment efforts at
assistants GCSAA mailed assistant superintendents
who are not currently members a recruitment
brochure in late June. What does your chapter
do to recruit assistant members? Check out
an example of GCSAA’s
newest recruitment effort for ideas.
Each month,
GCSAA provides membership reports of
new, reclassified and dropped members to assist
chapters with the shared membership verification
process. Get
these reports now.
Certification
reports
Congratulations to these individuals for on becoming certified
golf course superintendents: Justin C. Ruiz, CGCS - Cactus and Pine GCSA David Soltvedt, CGCS -Minnesota GCSA
The
GCSAA Education Conference Web site is now
open. Check it out on a regular basis for
the most up-do-date information on the 
