• Cheers to Charlie

    Check out the nice piece on longtime U-M golf course manager Charlie Green in today’s Ann Arbor News.   Charlie last official day at the helm is December 31, concluding an amazing 52 years of services at the course.   From today’s piece: His memories at Michigan are good ones. “The athletic department has been like a second family for me,” he said. “There is a warmth here, people look out for each other, and even the big shots come around and visit.” Green was on a first-name basis with the people who have had buildings named after them — Crisler, Oosterbaan, Keen, Canham, Schembechler. He isn’t old enough to have Fielding Yost on the list, he said. Green recalls the day eight years ago when Bo Schembechler came to his office, sat down and said, “What’s this I hear about you?” That was shortly before Green was scheduled to have open heart surgery for an aneurysm. Bo had had his share of heart problems by then. “I’m going to show everyone that I’m as tough as you are,” Green replied. To which Bo said, “You’re not that tough!” and got up and stormed out. “I have met so many men, tough and hard-nosed on the outside, but, like Bo, who really cared,” Green said. “Those are my memories. Now we have…