TURF INDUSTRY NEWS

STMA Names Sales & Marketing Manager Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) has named Kenzie Jay as its new Sales and Marketing Manager. Jay joins STMA with a diverse background in communications, social media and recruiting. Her responsibilities will include managing commercial partner relationships, membership growth and retention, social media management and conference/trade show support. STMA is the professional organization for 2,600 men and women who manage sports fields worldwide who are critical to the safety of athletes and coaches.

STMA Announces 2017 Board of Directors Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) has announced its 2017 Board of Directors. Tim VanLoo, Certified Sports Field Manager (CSFM) and Manager of Athletic Turf & Grounds for Iowa State University, is the newly elected President. Other STMA officers elected to the Board include: President-Elect – Sarah Martin, CSFM, City of Phoenix (Phoenix, AZ); Immediate Past President – Jeff Salmond, CSFM, Director of Athletic Field Management, University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK); Secretary/Treasurer – Jody Gill, CSFM, Grounds Coordinator, Blue Valley School District (Overland Park, KS); Vice President Commercial – Doug Schattinger, President, Pioneer Athletics (Cleveland, OH); Professional Facilities Director – Weston Appelfeller, CSFM, Director of Grounds, Columbus Crew (Columbus, OH). Directors fulfilling second-year terms are: Academic Director – Elizabeth Guertal, Ph.D., Auburn University (Auburn, AL); Higher Education Director – Nick McKenna, CSFM, Baseball Field Manager, Texas A&M (College Station, TX). Members elected to Director positions include: Schools K-12 Director – Sun Roesslein, CSFM, Manager, North Area Athletic Complex (Arvada, CO); Commercial Director – Boyd Montgomery, CSFM, Certified Sales Executive, Regional Business Manager, Te Toro Company (Minneapolis, MN). Elected-at-Large Director – Matt Anderson, CSFM, Grounds Superintendent, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ). Members appointed to the Board include: Randy Price, Tri-Tex Grass (Granbury, TX) and Jimmy Simpson, CSFM, Town of Cary (Cary, NC) STMA conducted its annual elections electronically in late November and the Board officially took office during the Annual Meeting at the 2017 Conference & Exhibition in January.

Turfgrass Information Center Receives Valuable Collection Te Turfgrass Information Center of the Michigan State University Libraries, announced that it has received an incredibly generous donation of materials from Mr. Lee C. Dieter. Tis donation included well over 200 monographs, including works like the 1930 Lawrence Dickinson title Te Lawn accompanied by its rare book jacket, and other important monographs such as Cunningham’s 1914 Lawns, Golf Courses, Polo Fields, and How to Treat Tem and Sutton’s 1886 Permanent and Temporary Pastures. Tis donation also contained a significant collection of serial materials, including impressive runs of Lawn Care, TurfNet Monthly, Virginia Turfgrass Journal, bound editions of Outing and many copies of turfgrass field day and conference proceedings. Tis donation also included a noteworthy collection of nearly 300 scorecards from facilities all over the United States—the majority of which the Turfgrass Information Center had no prior holdings from! Also noteworthy was the vast collection of invaluable serial materials produced by the Mid-Atlantic Association of Golf Course Superintendents (MAAGCS), including: Turf News, Turf News Letter, Mid-Atlantic Association of Golf Course Superintendents Newsletter, Turf Talk, and Turfgrass Matters. Te MAAGCS materials alone totaled over 400 individual items, adding a third to the amount of material available through the MAAGCS full-text archive: http://archive. lib.msu.edu/tic/matnl/browse.html, including significant amounts of unheld issues from the 1950s-1970s. Lee C. Dieter, CGCS Retired, was superintendent at Washington Golf and Country Club for 36 years. Pete Cookingham, Head of the Turfgrass Information Center, said, “Lee Dieter’s long-standing interest in the collecting of turfgrass and golf course literature has now benefited turfgrass science and scholarship for the future. His eye for high quality and unusual pieces, and a broad view of the discipline from the perspective of a practicing golf course superintendent, makes this a wonderful donation. We are most pleased to be able to make these available to the world because of Mr. Dieter’s generosity.” Access to this collection and all other Turfgrass Information Center materials are available to TPI members as a member benefit.

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