Friday, April 11, 2008

Greetings from the New Commish

Gentlemen –

As you've probably seen in an email from Former-Commissioner-for-Life Dave Rieves, I'll be taking over Commissioner duties from him beginning this summer, and I hope to do half as good a job as he has done.

There are a lot of things I need to learn to administer a league that’s seven years older than I am, and Dave will be helping me along the way. If there’s ever a time you think I could benefit from your input, I hope you’ll share it with me. There are myriad ways to contact me when I’m not looking for my ball in the trees (but I’m not going to list them here in the blog, as that would make it too easy for spammers to find me). I’ll send that information via email. One way you can contact me here is to leave a comment on this or any other of my posts.

Other League News: Two golfers have retired from the league this off-season (joining the Champions Tour, I presume). (Captain) Dick Hemberger and Larry Gradel will not return. I should note that these decisions were made independent to my becoming Commissioner, so please save the rats/sinking ship analogies!

That leads us to our . . . FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS!

As Dave mentioned, we’ll need to recruit (or somehow form) an entire new team and captain for this season. If you know of anybody who may be interested in forming or joining a team, please let me know ASAP. I have put together a quick info sheet (click that link or the one on the right of this page) you can send or print off so you won’t have to explain everything to them. Obviously, UW employees will be given preferred status, but that dam’s already been busted by our team, so it’s not a concrete requirement.

Get those clubs dusted off! We tee off in 17 days!

- Dave

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dave,
Thanks for putting this up. Quick question on the schedule - is it close enough to being final that we can put the tee times on our calendar, or is there likely to be changes?
Thanks,
Charlie Hoslet (Miller Team)

Dave Wolfe said...

All - I wouldn't put those tee times on your calendar just yet. I did the schedule based on my memory of how Dave told me last fall that he did them. He'll check them over and we'll get out the final schedule next week some time. - Dave