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Publication Type:
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Author(s): | Hood, Sarah B. |
Title: | Seeding the future: Mike Van Beek has gone from nurturing turf to nurturing new professionals |
Column Name: | The back nine Other records with the "The back nine" Column
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Source: | GreenMaster. Vol. 44, No. 2, March/April 2009, p. 46. |
Publishing Information: | Richmond Hill, Ontario: Kenilworth Publishing Inc. |
# of Pages: | 1 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Personal profile; Career growth; Education; Golf course industry
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Subjects' Names: | Van Beek, Mike |
Abstract/Contents: | Profiles Mike Van Beek, stating that he grew up "on a farm in the Cambridge area...[and] drifted into his first golf course job in his early teens." Notes the he graduated from the University of Guelph in 1981 with a degree in Environmental Horticulture. States that after he graduated he worked as "assistant superintendent...at Glen Abbey until 1986." Also states that he "left Abbey to start up a little lawn care and landscape company...however...in the fall of 1980, Seneca's first GCT [Golf Course Technician] class entered the college. Glen Abbey was a destination for occasional field trips, and Van Beek was recruited into the faculty [at Seneca College]." |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
Note: | Pictures, color |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Hood, S. B. 2009. Seeding the future: Mike Van Beek has gone from nurturing turf to nurturing new professionals. GreenMaster. 44(2):p. 46. |
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