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02/25/2010
2010 Hancock Turfgrass Research Center Wish List
February 19, 2010
Dear MiGCSA Members and Friends,
We all know the importance of the Hancock Turfgrass Research Center to our businesses and our careers. The 56 acre facility is the center from which all of our Michigan State University research emanates. Recent state budget cuts have affected all of us but University funding has been especially hard hit.
We asked Mark Collins, Director of the HTRC and his fine staff to get us a list of supplies and equipment that they need to maintain the Center for the year. None of this includes any products that the professors use in their research. This is just the maintenance and upkeep of the center, the grounds and the plots.
Please find that list attached and look through it to see if there is anything on it that you might have extra from last year’s inventory or something that you can donate to the HTRC for the coming year. Together, we should have no problem getting everything on the list. Our goal is to share the load. If you have a case or two of something, it all adds up.
MTF President Dan Boak and MTF Vice President John Fulling will serve as “Filters” for Landscape and golf respectively so we don’t burden Mark and HTRC with calls and to keep an accurate and up to date list. MiGCSA Members please call or e-mail John Fulling to donate something or for any questions. He can be reached at 269-998-9748 or john@kalamazoocc.com.
Every club / business will get full face value credit as a donation to the MTF for items donated.
Thank you so much for your continued support of the MiGCSA, the MTF and Michigan State University.
Sincerely,
Ron Dahlin, CGCS
MiGCSA President
Download the 2009 HTRC Annual Report for 2009 Here
