There are still spaces available for the Arc Gloucester golf tournament.
The golf tournament honoring the memory of Nancy Elkis and Jack Love, scheduled Monday, Sept. 28 at Scotland Run in Williamstown, is in its 47th year, stamping it as one of the longest-running charitable golf events in South Jersey.
Bob Shryock Benefiting the American Heart Association, the tournament has raised in excess of $1.5 million since it debuted at the old Tall Pines in 1968. The tournament has been played at several venues, notably Scotland Run in recent years.
This year's tourney, chaired again by Dr. James George, will have a somber tone. John Love, eldest son of Sally Love and Dr. Jack Love, her late husband, was killed last spring in a job-related accident. John was a regular participant in the Elkis-Love tournament.
Entry fee for the four-golfer scramble is $250 per golfer, covering all golf amenities, dinner, lunch, awards, and silent auction.
Entry form is available on the AHA website. For additional information, call Grace Donatucci at the AHA office, 215-463-1234. There is space for more players.
More room in "The arc"
There also is room for additional golfers in The Arc Gloucester Golf Tournament slated for Wednesday, Sept. 23 at Ron Jaworski's RiverWinds with proceeds benefiting the facility's Camp Sun 'n Fun.
The four-golfer scramble carries a $150 entry fee which includes golf, lunch, awards dinner and an auction highlighted by a paperweight donated by noted glass artist Paul Stankard of Mantua.
This tournament also features the National Anthem sung by Michael Jones, the brilliant blind vocalist from Washington Township who has been fighting health problems.
This tourney was chaired by the late BIll Dalton, mayor of Glassboro, for nearly 20 years His son, Larry Dalton, assumed chairmanship upon Bill's passing, and serves on a newly-formed committee for the 2015 Arc Gloucester event.
Memories from Manganello
Joe Manganello, former long-time Gloucester County College professor and county freeholder, read the recent column about John Borrell and shed "a few tears." Borrell, a Pitman High School graduate, was a teaching golf professional who died recently at age 59.
Retired and living in Florida, Joe tells a poignant story about he and then freeholder director Jim Atkinson crisscrossing Gloucester County one day and stopping to enjoy the view from the parking lot at Pitman Golf Course.
"We saw John giving lessons to a group of disabled youngsters. He did not see us, but we sure saw him. Here was this man with movie-star features teaching a mesmerized audience.
"There is an old expression that came to mind: 'A man is never taller than when he stops to help a child.
"John was a prince. He was kind, elegant, and transformative."
Recalling an old tale
Mark Vogeding, son of the late John Vogeding of Paulsboro, recalls the recent column about our 2-0 football prediction in the late 1960s, Kingsway beating Woodstown under monsoon conditions.
"I heard dad tell the story many times," says Voge, a special education teacher and assistant athletic director at his PHS alma mater.
His dad left PHS, where he was a classroom teacher, to report sports for the Times before moving to the Courier-Post as long-time assistant sports editor.
