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For Director
John C. Miller, CGCS

John C. Miller, CGCS, has been the superintendent at the Golf Club at Yankee Trace in Centerville, Ohio, since 1993. Previously, he served as superintendent at Indian Springs Golf Course in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and London (Ohio) Country Club. He has a bachelor’s degree in agronomy from Ohio State University in Columbus. A GCSAA member for 24 years, Miller is currently serving on the Standards/ Bylaws Committee and previously served two years as vice chairman of the Education Committee. He has also served as a member of the Certification, Education and Standards/ Bylaws committees. Miller is a member and past president of the Miami Valley GCSA and has served on the education planning committee for the Ohio Turfgrass Foundation. He is also a past president of Play Golf Ohio.

Statement
I am seeking election to the GCSAA board of directors to give back to a profession that has given me so much. When I was first starting out in the business at a private nine-hole club, if I needed information, I would look at back issues of Golf Course Management or contact GCSAA. Through GCSAA and the local chapter of which I was a member, I started to develop a network and places to turn when I needed help. While I cannot return all of the valuable information to those that came before me and helped me, it is now time for me to help those superintendents that are in a similar position in their careers. Young superintendents need mentors that can help them make decisions and evaluate new products and techniques.
The industry as we know it is changing very fast and evolving to meet the challenges of trying times, both financially and agronomically. GCSAA needs to be able to provide education that is on the cutting edge and continue to deliver it to superintendents when they want and need it. With GCSAA’s help, golf course superintendents will be able to remain a strong influence in the game of golf and be represented at the facility management table.
GCSAA also needs to look into the future and make sure superintendents are trained to meet the changing professional needs of the clubs by offering alternative career paths so that those superintendents who desire to become general managers will have the proper training.

There are many issues that have surfaced over the past few years within the membership of GCSAA. While these issues are extremely important and must be evaluated, it is also important that we investigate the issues and make informed decisions, and those decisions should be what is best for GCSAA and the majority of the membership. My experiences at daily fee, private and municipal clubs allow me to represent a wide variety of golf course superintendents. In my quest for a director’s position last year, I was able to talk with many of the delegates and find issues that each chapter faced. It is important that these issues are brought to the board of directors, assigned to the proper committees and investigated so that proper decisions can be made in order to help these chapters resolve their issues.

I feel I bring a wide range of knowledge and background that would help GCSAA and its membership succeed in the future. All of these items combined are the reasons that I would like to be elected to the board of directors for GCSAA.

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