NEWSLETTER VOL. 49 ISSUE 1 2006 MSU VARSITY ‘S’ GOLF OUTING Join the Varsity Alumni ‘S’ Club for our annual golf outing on Friday June 9, 2006 at the Forest Akers West Golf Course. There will be a morning registration and continental breakfast at the course, and a 10:00 am shotgun start for each foursome followed by cocktails, an awards banquet, and our annual meeting in the University Club Ballroom. The golf outing is the Club’s annual fundraising event, and the entry fee is $95 per golfer. Proceeds and additional donations are used to fund our annual commitments. Sign up today using the form on the next page, or contact (517) 355-8523 to make your reservation. Sponsorship Opportunities Sponsorships offer you and your business an additional opportunity to support the activities of the Varsity Alumni ‘S’ Club—including support for the Clara Bell Smith Center and the maintenance of our Clubroom in Spartan Stadium. Sign up for: Memory Lane $100 (Memorial sign posted along cart path to the first hole) Go Green $250 (Listed on sponsor board, company sign posted at a tee box or green, and announced at dinner) Go White $500 (All of “Go Green” plus tent cards on tables at dinner) Captain $1,000 (All of “Go White” plus individual banner at registration and dinner) Coach $2,500 (Lunch or Dinner Sponsor) (All of “Captain” plus banner at registration, lunch & dinner, special recognition at dinner banquet, and opportunity to play golf with one of the celebrity golfers to be determined) For questions about each sponsorship level or to make a donation please contact the Varsity ‘S’ Club Office at (517) 355-8523 or [email protected]. We can customize a program to fit your interests and donation level. winter 2 0 0 6 newsletter 2005-2006 Greetings From MSU Varsity ‘S’ Alumni Club Board the President Joey Spano ...................................... President Dear Fellow Spartans, Eldon VanSpybrook ......................... First Vice President Mike Vorkapich ............................... Secretary It is an honor to serve as your president. Along with your dedicated David Brogan ................................... Treasurer board of directors, I am committed to the continued success and growth John Breslin ..................................... Past President Hank Bullough ................................. Director of the Varsity ‘S’ Club. Bill Burke .......................................... Director As we embark on a new calendar year, we have many important projects Colin Cronin ...................................... Director Bill Herrmann ................................... Director on our docket for 2006. First and foremost is establishing our new Angela Howard................................ Director Varsity ‘S’ office across from our clubroom in Spartan Stadium. New Ed McLoud ....................................... Director office space adjacent to our clubroom in the beautiful stadium addition will provide for Chris Piwowarczyk ......................... Director a more professional setting and better efficiency. We hope to be moving into our new Sue Selke.......................................... Director Claudia Papanikolas ....................... Office Secretary quarters within the next few months. Equally important is finishing our newly renovated clubroom. We are planning to create Visit us on the web at www.varsityS.msu.edu. conversation areas, add new furniture and lamps, select paint colors for the walls, new accent carpeting and improve the overhead lighting. A concessions area will be built to allow us to host catered functions in the clubroom and offer a more extensive menu for Golf Outing Registration football games. ❏ Men’s foursome 10:00 a.m. $95/person We are always looking to expand membership and provide better member service. Your ❏ Women’s foursome 10:00 a.m. $95/person Varsity ‘S’ card admits you to all Olympic sport home contests with the exception of ❏ Mixed foursome 10:00 a.m. $95/person football, hockey, and men’s and women’s basketball. ❏ Dinner only 4:30 p.m. $40/person I am very pleased to announce that the board has teamed up with Wheat Jewelers of ❏ Please contact me regarding Sponsorship or Okemos to provide a beautiful line of outstanding jewelry designed exclusively for and Memory Lane possibilities available only to Varsity ‘S’ Club members. Kevin Wheat, founder, is offering these items at very reasonable prices and will donate a portion of each sale to our club. Kevin is also Subtotal ______ creating and donating a piece of jewelry to our annual award winners. Additional Donation ______ One of the most important things we do is honor outstanding Spartan letter winners TOTAL ______ through the Jack Breslin Life Achievement, Nell Jackson Outstanding Alumna and Henry Bullough Service Awards. This year, we are adding a Retired Coaches Achievement Award. Name I encourage each of you to submit a nomination for one or more of these awards. Certainly Address you know of fellow Spartan letter winners who have made significant professional and City State Zip civic contributions and brought honor to our alma mater who are most deserving of one of these awards. Nomination forms are available on our website at [email protected]. Phone Email Don’t forget to make plans to attend the club’s two major events in 2006, our annual Golf ❏ I will be playing with: Outing June 9 at Forest Akers West and Varsity ‘S’ Club Reunion Weekend, September ❏ Please sign me/us up with any available group 7, 8 and 9. Colin Cronin will again chair the Golf Outing, always an enjoyable event and Method of payment the major fundraiser for our Club. This year’s Golf Outing will see a greater involvement ❏ Check - Payable to MSU Varsity Alumni ‘S’ Club by our Spartan head and assistant coaches in all sports. This year is the tenth annual ❏ Visa ❏ MasterCard Varsity ‘S’ Club Reunion Weekend and we hope to make it our best yet. This is a great way to reunite with former teammates and enjoy our beautiful campus. Credit Card # Finally, we will be electing new members for open positions on the Board of Directors in Exp. Date Signature May. If you have a desire to give something back to MSU athletics and are committed to The field is limited. In order to secure your spot and strengthening our Club; I urge you to consider running for a position on the board. Look tee time preference, payment needs to be received for a nomination form on our website and in this newsletter. for your entire foursome. Wishing you the best in 2006. Please return with payment to: GO STATE! MSU Varsity Alumni ‘S’ Club P.O. Box 6411, East Lansing, MI 48826 Kindest regards, Fax (517) 432-7769 For additional information contact the Varsity ‘S’ Club Joey Spano, President office staff: (517)355-8523 • [email protected] ✁ 2 winter 2 0 0 6 newsletter Varsity Clubroom Restoration Update During the construction of the wiring, lighting, ceiling tile, and concession area will be added than our current office in the Spartan Stadium addition, a carpeting have been installed. before the 2006 football season. basement of the Student Union. water and condensation problem Also, non-weight bearing walls It was a long-standing Varsity A new very spacious reception was discovered that over the years were removed to make the room Club tradition to have letter area has been added at the caused black mold to grow in our more spacious. In addition, we winners carve their names in the concourse level with the Varsity walls. Also, because of heavy rains have gained approximately 400 old wooden tabletops. Those Club sign on the door. This area while the old and new sections of square feet from a university tops are now mounted on the also has new wiring, lighting, the stadium were being joined, storeroom on the north end of walls. We will have plaques ceiling tile, carpeting, and leaks destroyed our ceiling and the room where the plasma TV is for our Varsity Club award freshly painted walls. Once the carpet. Once the problem was located. winners, as well as recognition construction is completed on discovered our TVs, pictures, The first phase of the restoration for people who have purchased the stadium addition we will and furniture were removed and was quickly completed by Varsity Club chairs and tables, have handicap accessibility to the stored in a safe dry location in MSU and Kares Construction and for those who have donated clubroom via elevator. the stadium. Company to allow us to use the money earmarked for the Varsity At the present time your Board The black mold has been Varsity Club Room this past fall. Clubroom. It has been suggested is working with the University’s removed and to solve the All the current construction has we add a collage of pictures that interior decorating department problem of condensation and been completed at no cost to the will reflect the history of Spartan to complete the project by the water seeping through the Varsity Club. athletics, and include all sports. end of the summer. We are using stadium deck a roof was built Our current restrooms will be The Varsity Club office will be the same staff that decorated the under the stadium seats over the removed this winter giving us moved to the stadium this spring suites, clubroom, and press box. top of the clubroom. We have additional space. We will then into the new office area across Thank you for your all new drywall and fresh paint. have two very large handicap from the clubroom. The new For the first time, we have air understanding and patience accessible restrooms adjacent office will be significantly larger during the restoration process. conditioning in the clubroom to the clubroom. Also, a new and more conveniently located and a sprinkler system. New Basketball 1950-52 Jill Hoehlein, Field Hockey John M. Mullen, Football 1964-66 Barbara Branson John Hofstettler, Baseball 1951 A. Dennis Olmstead, Hockey 1972-74 Bob Brawley, Football 1964-66, Men’s Roger Howard, Baseball 1951-52 Rodney Orth, Baseball 1989-91 Thank Field Hockey 1965-67, Hockey 1965-67 Terry M.