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He attended Texas A & M University from 1965-1966 and in 1969 received his B.S. from the University of Missouri, where he majored in landscape, horticulture and turf management. He served as assistant superintendent of Joliet Country Club for a year before being named superintendent, a position he held from 1970 to 1973. Following his superintendency, Miles leased and operated two public golf course facilities in the area. The 28 year old manager, a member of Phi Eta Sigma, a national scholastic honor fraternity, has been the recipient of scholarships from the Rotary Club, trans-Mississippi Turf Association and the GCSAA. He worked as superintendent trainee of Olympia Fields Country Club and Cedar Crest Country Club in Quincy, Illinois. His experiences have also included being captain of the University of Missouri Golf Team, and golf instructor and teacher of golf related subjects at Joliet Junior College. In appointing Miles, the Administrative Board commented, "If the residents of Villa Park and Elmhurst respond as enthusiastically to the Sugar Creek Golf Course as Miles has, we can expect 40,000 rounds the first year of operation." The new manager says he will "work toward providing the two communities with the finest executive golf course in the Chicagoland area." ______________________________________ Steve Gonzalez has joined the Office of Conservation Services, Illinois Department of Conservation as an Administrative Assistant II. His responsibilities include serving as the program manager for the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Grants-In-Aid program, and assisting with the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation's Land and Water Conservation Act's and the Illinois Department of Conservation's Open Space Lands Acquisition grant programs. Steve is presently on the Board of the Illinois Park and Recreation Society and has served on various I.P.R.S. committees. He was formerly employed by the Dundee Township Park District as Recreation Supervisor. ______________________________________
______________________________________ Mr. Rick Mackey has been appointed to the position of Athletic Supervisor with the Des Plaines Park District. Mr. Mackey will be responsible for all mens' and boys' activities including all athletic programs and the indoor aquatic program. Prior to accepting this position, Mr. Mackey had been Recreation Director in Middlebury, Vermont for the past three years. He has an extensive athletic background in collegiate athletics where he participated in soccer, baseball, and skiing. While completing his Bachelor of Arts degree at Johnson State College he was also assistant ski coach and assistant intramural director. ______________________________________
His job responsibilities have begun and he is currently hiring staff and setting up programs in preparation of the opening of Haeger indoor pool on September 15th. ______________________________________
A Barrington, Illinois, resident, Mogle attended Barrington High School until graduation in 1971. His first two years of college were spent at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado and his final two years at Western, where he earned a degree in Recreation and Park Administration. Mogle was introduced to the field of Recreation and Parks through his employment at Barrington Park District. Here he spent four summers Illinois Parks and Recreation 26 November/December, 1975 working in several different areas in the Park District. These areas included lifeguarding, swimming instruction, pool and park maintenance, and recreation leadership and programming. He also spent ten weeks doing his fieldwork at St. Charles. His duties at the Dundee Township Park District include men's and boys athletics and the Bessinger Community Center Director. Mogle also is the Director for the Park District 50-Plus Senior Citizen Club. ______________________________________ David Graversen has been appointed to the position of Aquatics Facility Manager of the Champaign Park District. Graversen has a Bachelor's degree in Recreation from the University of Iowa. In August he completed a Master's degree in Recreation and Park Administration from Indiana University. He was active in student professional societies at both Iowa and Indiana. Most recently Graversen served as an Associate Instructor at Indiana University. He completed his student internship with the Decorah, Iowa Park and Recreation Department as well as organizing and implementing a recreation program for inmates at the Johnson County, Iowa jail. Graversen served as a varsity football manager while attending the University of Iowa. He served four years with the United States Navy. Graversen's duties will include managing the Champaign Park District's year round, indoor-outdoor swimming facility. ______________________________________ A BEQUEST IN YOUR WILL to the Illinois Association of Park Districts helps insure the continuance of the Association's programs which you now support through your membership. A SUGGESTED BEQUEST FORM: "I hereby give, devise and bequeath to the Illinois Association of Park Districts, an Illinois not - for - profit corporation, St. George Bldg.— Suite 206, 300 East Monroe Street, Springfield, Illinois, the sum of (dollars) (other gift as described here) to be used for the general purposes of said Association." ______________________________________
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, We are a small park district with an assessed valuation of $4,500,000 and no professional staff. We look for ideas anyplace we can find them and, I think, the primary source for park and recreation ideas should come from a park and recreation magazine such as yours. I read almost every article looking for ideas we can use. I would like to see a little more related to smaller park districts (realizing that most of the park districts are larger and therefore most of your articles relate to them). Listed below are some of our areas of interest. Pictures help a lot also.
a. types of trees to plant; types of campaigns to obtain donated trees; types of publicity associated with trees;
The legislative notes are always of interest and definitely should be retained. This is our only contact with what is happening in the legislature. We also like the list of commercial advertisers showing the services available. Our only regret is that more downstate companies do not advertise. Possibly some of the vendors at the State convention could be enticed to become associate members and list their services. We made several contacts with vendors at your convention in St. Louis which resulted in several orders. I could ramble on and on, however, it all leads to the same thing. We use the magazine to get ideas and to know what's going on. We would like to see parks from various parts of the state featured from time to time. Sincerely yours, Roger A. Roley, President Board of Commissioners New Athens Park District _____________________________________ Dear Editor, May I for one, extend sincere appreciation to the many professional colleagues in the Chicago Metropolitan Area for the recent Park and Recreation EXPO held at Woodfield Mall September 12, 13 and 14. Sponsored by the Suburban Park and Recreation Association, the EXPO promoted no single individual agency but rather highlighted the field of leisure in total as a Park District governmental function. The thousands who attended benefited from the activities of the EXPO and left with a greater awareness of the role of Park and Recreation agencies in their own area. The months of planning and hours of volunteer time and effort culminated in a successful boost to our profession as well. As a beneficiary of that achievement, I say thanks! Sincerely, David B. Colmar, Director Homewood-Flossmoor Park & Recreation Illinois Parks and Recreation 27 November/December, 1975 |
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