One of my favorite charities and a classy event. Details via former QB/DB Rich Hewlett (coincidentally, he was featured yesterday in WPW!) who shared this note today about the event and how to get involved: I ask you to join me as I again serve as Chairperson for a special event designed to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and The University of Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UMCDC). On May 19, my family will host the 2014 Swing to Cure Diabetes Golf Outing at the University of Michigan Golf Course. With your participation and support, UMCDC and JDRF will continue their important research that will lead to a cure. Through our first five golf outings we have raised over $285,000! This year’s event will take place at the U of M Golf Course on Monday, May 19, 2014 with a 9:30 AM shotgun start. The agenda for the day is as follows: 8:00 AM — Check in 9:15 AM — Introduction/Welcome Remarks 9:30 AM — Shotgun Start 2:30 PM — Dinner 3:00 PM — Program 3:30 PM — Conclusion Activities for the day will include a silent and live auction, competitions, prizes, and more. Breakfast, beverages, boxed lunch, and a buffet-style diner also will be provided. Please join us for the Swing to Cure Diabetes Golf Outing. Click here…
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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…