- Paul Rieke, renowned turfgrass soil management educator and researcher, says he's stepping aside after more than 30 years as a seminar faculty member at GCSAA conference and shows.
"It's getting too hard to keep up with all the technology and new products," he said Thursday while stopping by GCSAA headquarters before heading home to Okemos, Mich. Rieke retired as a professor of turfgrass and soil science at Michigan State University about eight years ago.
Paul, who won GCSAA's Distingushed Service Award in 1996 and the USGA Green Section Award in '97, will be missed by literally thousands of superintendents who frequent GCSAA's education conference each year.
- Overheard in a convention center men's room, third stall from the left ... a superintendent on a cell phone giving his assistant back home instructions for the day's maintenance procedures.
Kind of puts an exclamation point on the notion that a superintendent's job has no downtime, doesn't it?
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