WITH HONORS
Commemorating Payne ... Vintage fashion ... Trading places ... Entrepreneurial spirit.
ONE MOMENT IN TIME
Ah, yes, what a moment it was. When Payne Stewart sank the 15-foot putt
on the 18th hole of Pinehurst No. 2 to win the 1999 U.S. Open by one stroke,
it was a moment that encapsulated the game of golf — the drama, the
competition, the spirit. And Stewart’s reaction? Dressed in his trademark
knickers and tam-o’-shanter cap, he punched the air in victory. The
triumphant moment is now forever captured at
Pinehurst,
in the Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina, in an inspirational 7.5-foot
bronze statue of Stewart that faces the 18th green of the legendary No. 2,
where he made the winning putt. The statue, which reflects Stewart’s actual
height of 6 feet, 2 inches, joins the existing bronze likenesses of Donald
Ross and Richard S. Tufts on the garden lawn. The pair, positioned together,
appear to be in conversation as they observe Stewart’s feat from off the
“green.” Pennsylvania-based sculptor Zenos Frudakis, who created the Tufts
statue (as well as bronzes of Arnold Palmer and Bobby Jones that reside at
Georgia’s Hall of Fame in Augusta), took about 18 months to complete the
350-pound statue of Stewart. He fully formed his creation in clay before
sending it to a Philadelphia foundry for casting. Stewart’s widow, Tracey,
and their children, Chelsea and Aaron, attended the dedication ceremony for
the statue, which opened with a Scottish bagpipe presentation. “Pinehurst
was a special place to Payne,” Tracey said, “not only because he won his
last U.S. Open Championship there but also because of the rich golf
tradition that it represents. We are grateful that Pinehurst has elected to
honor Payne and include him in their tradition with such a prominent
reminder of his dramatic victory.” The Pinehurst tradition continues as the
resort prepares to welcome the U.S. Open again in 2005. —
Louis
Marroquin
Photography by Thomas Toohey Brown.
ROMANTIC GOLFWEAR
Rick Martin, a member of
Stonebriar
Country Club near Dallas, and founder and president of Fairway
& Greene Ltd., designs golf attire with the 1940s in mind. Players at that
time, like Ben Hogan, wore white shirts with closed collars, alpaca
sweaters, and even ties on the course. “I’m just a hapless romantic and a
lover of the game,” Martin says. Missing from today’s golf fashions, he
says, is a sense of individuality — and that’s why the Fairway & Greene
collection is only found in private clubs. “There need to be different
styles for each individual club,” Martin says. “Private clubs are the last
bastion of individuality.” Martin retired from the golf apparel business in
1992, dismayed that quantity was replacing quality. So he set out to produce
a hand-tailored golf shirt, made of the finest fabrics. “I did it as more of
a lark than anything,” Martin says. After researching fabrics for two years,
Martin launched Fairway & Greene in 1995. Depicting classic colors, simple
designs, and top-quality fabrics, such as French lisle, the first clothing
catalog appeared later that year. But, in keeping with the more casual
attire of today, there is one vintage golf fashion missing from the
collection: ties. —
Anne
Clarrissimeaux
Photography by Lisa Means.
MEET THE PRESIDENT
As one of 32 female executives to meet with President George W. Bush
last summer to discuss foreign trade issues, Judy Huang Lewis says she felt
blessed. “Having the honor to meet with the President as an immigrant and as
a medium-sized company, to hear that he supports trade and would like us to
help — that was a proud moment,” says Lewis, a member of the
Capital Club
in Columbus, Ohio. The founder of 889 Global Solutions Ltd., Lewis helps
companies implement profitable strategies for Greater China, such as aiding
with direct factory contracts, increasing sales to China through better
positioning, or helping a company shift manufacturing to China. She moved to
the United States from China with her parents in 1981 and considers herself
a product of both U.S. and Chinese cultures. Representatives from 31 U.S.
companies attended the meeting to help promote passage of Trade Promotion
Authority, a bill that would open up global trade. “The United States has
just two trade agreements — with Israel and Mexico,” Lewis says. “In
contrast, Europe has 32 and Japan has 28.” The presidential meeting, also
attended by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and Secretary of
Agriculture Ann Veneman, was about more than just dollars and deals, though.
“Opening up trade creates jobs and improves human rights and intellectual
property rights issues,” Lewis says. “I came away from this event feeling
proud and thankful that our country is run by a government that cares about
important issues.” —
Mary Sue
Lawrence
Photography by Daivd Cook.
THE VOICE SOUNDS FAMILIAR
Jodi Carlisle may be the most prolific TV actress you’ve never seen.
She’s a regular cast member of a hit show, a veteran of commercials, and an
occasional guest star on sitcoms. And she does almost all of it without
showing her face. Carlisle, a member of
Braemar Country
Club near Los Angeles, is an accomplished voice actor. Most
notably, she is the voice of Marianne, the mom on Nickelodeon’s
The Wild
Thornberrys. “It’s a great way to make a living,” she says. “I
can do just about anything and not have to worry about what I look like.” To
be sure, appearances can be deceiving. When in the presence of kids who
watch the show, she often has to turn around and speak to make them believe
she’s Marianne. (After all, she looks nothing like her animated alter ego.)
Carlisle found her niche in voice work in the 1980s, but the theater is her
first love. A member of The Colony Theatre Company in Los Angeles, Carlisle
has performed in such plays as
The Matchmaker,
Heartbreak House,
King of Hearts,
and
Noises Off, and was honored
by the L.A. Drama Critics’ Circle in 1997 as the best emerging comic
actress. Still, the greatest demand is for her voice work, and she’s more
than happy to step up to the microphone. “You can make a nice living and be
creative and not have a hard time going to the supermarket,” she says. —
Will Pry
Photography by Kim Kulish/SABA
IN RECOGNITION OF CADDIES
If you’ve ever played Pinehurst No. 2, undoubtedly you remember every
detail of the experience — the direction of the wind, the way your ball
rolled off the fifth green and, most of all, the name of your caddie. To
most, walking No. 2 with a caddie is the ultimate golf experience.
Recognizing that fact,
Pinehurst
in the Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina, has created the
Pinehurst Caddie Hall of Fame to honor those individuals who have
distinguished themselves while caddying at the resort. “No one in this
resort has a more personalized relationship with the guests, for a longer
period of time, than a caddie,” says Patrick A. Corso, president and chief
executive officer of Pinehurst. “These gentlemen are an integral part of
Pinehurst’s heritage. They are more important than any building.” At a
special dinner and ceremony earlier this year, 10 caddies past and present
were inducted into the 2001 class of the Hall of Fame. Inaugural inductees
included Jeff Ferguson (“Ratman”), Fletcher Gaines, Teddy Marley, Willie
McRae, Robert Robinson (“Hardrock”), Hilton Rodgers (“Doctor”), and Robert
Stafford. Posthumous inductees were John T. Daniel (“Barney Google”), Jimmy
Steed, and longtime caddie master Jack Williams. Among them, these gentlemen
have devoted more than 350 years of service to golfers at Pinehurst. They
have walked No. 2 with Donald Ross, Ben Hogan, Walter Hagen, Sam Snead,
Curtis Strange, and Payne Stewart. But, more important, they carried the bag
and read the greens for thousands of golfers whose names we don’t know. If
the fingerprints of No. 2 are her greens, the heart of No. 2 is her caddies.
—
Melody
Crow
A NEW APPROACH
Nicholas Susner discovered a new way of examining the human body — but
first he had to get his head out of the stars. Several years ago, Susner,
president and chief executive officer of Science & Technology International
and a member of the
Plaza Club
in Honolulu, redirected the company’s state-of-the-art optical imaging
systems to study the human body rather than space. “This technology can
describe the moon and Jupiter down to the size of a coffee table,” Susner
says. “But I wanted to know, can we use it for the human body?” Today, the
company’s HyperSpectral Diagnostic Imaging (HSDI) technology is awaiting
Food and Drug Administration approval as a noninvasive, noncontact approach
to diagnosing cervical cancer. “This is a whole new tool that allows the
gynecologist to see the cancer sooner so it can be dealt with more quickly
and safely,” Susner says. From about 8 inches away from the patient, the
HSDI cervical instrument takes a color picture. “Our camera sees 288
colors,” he says. “The human eye typically sees many blends of just three
colors.” Tissue types are distinguished by their characteristic absorption
of light, allowing the colors to help discriminate healthy from unhealthy
tissue. “Rather than poking and pinching and probing and cutting,” Susner
says, “this approach takes just a few seconds and immediately determines the
presence of cancer.” —
Mary Sue
Lawrence
Photography by John DeMello.
STRONG MEN
If a member of the
Fairlane Club
in Dearborn, Michigan, tells you he lifts weights with North America’s
Strongest Man, he may not be exaggerating. That’s because two of the club’s
personal trainers, Steve Dmytrow and Dan Balestrieri, competed for that
title last fall — and did so in Herculean fashion. Although Balestrieri was
edged out during his first attempt in his weight division, Dmytrow, who won
the heavyweight title in 1999, came in third in his division. Training for
the competition, in which contestants drag fire engines and haul 330-pound
boulders for speed and distance, required lots of heavy lifting … and lots
of heavy eating. Dmytrow ate about 10,000 calories a day to fuel his
6-foot-3-inch, 335-pound frame; the 5-11, 235-pound Balestrieri took in
4,000 to 5,000 calories a day. Their workouts included hours each day in the
weight room and in the club’s parking lot, where the sight of a man pulling
four chained-together pickup trucks with a rope and a harness became
routine. But this undertaking was about more than just protein shakes and
bench presses. “The mental aspect to any sport is underestimated,” Dmytrow
says. “To do this, you have to put your body in a place it doesn’t want to
go. It takes a lot of mental discipline to do that.” That discipline will
continue as he prepares to participate in the East Coast Challenge, an
international Strongman invitational, in February. —
Will Pry
Photography by George Fiala.
AN ETCH IN TIME
One of Carrie Swoboda’s favorite toys as a child was the Etch A Sketch,
that red rectangular drawing toy that, with the turn of its white knobs,
continues to capture the imaginations of kids and adults alike. These days,
the Ohio Art Company, the makers of Etch A Sketch, is one of her favorite
clients. As president of Lou Beres & Associates, one of Chicago’s top
advertising agencies, Swoboda, a member of
410 Club and
Conference Center in Chicago, develops national campaigns for
products and companies with household names including Etch A Sketch, the
Betty Spaghetty doll, Wrigley, VTech, and OMROM. “Being in a creative
setting, in a dynamic field, yet still on the business side, is where I
belong,” she says. Swoboda can trace her entrepreneurial success to her
childhood days of selling lemonade and hand-painted rocks, and taking over a
pregnant neighbor’s Avon route. The 8-year-old “Avon lady” is now, at 34,
one of the youngest female presidents of an advertising agency in the
country. “People like me, who have an entrepreneurial spirit, capture
that and run with it. It’s been the essence of my career.” —
Mary Sue Lawrence
Photography by Andy Goodwin.
AT HIS FINGERTIPS
There’s something primal about finger painting, Allen Montague says,
something that makes him think the cavemen must have done something similar
in their day. Maybe, but they darn sure never did it on TV. Montague, a
member of the
Capital City Club
in Raleigh, North Carolina, loves sharing his hands-on approach to art with
audiences of his two locally broadcast programs. “It’s so freeing,” he says
of finger painting. “It lets the little kid out of you. When you take the
tools out of it, you have more of a feeling you’re doing it.” Montague’s
done just about anything that tickled his fancy, from music to clothing
design to art to cooking. He started his impressionistic style of finger
painting on a fluke, jumping into it when he realized he’d forgotten his
brushes once and he still wanted to paint. And his can-do spirit pours over
into his TV shows,
The Art
of Living and
Southern Palette,
a show in which he finishes a painting and cooks a gourmet meal each
episode. “When I wake up, I’ll ask myself, ‘Do I want to be a chef today? Do
I want to be an artist today? Do I want to produce a TV show today?’“ he
says. Montague’s goal is to have his shows syndicated so he can reach a
broader audience and turn
The Art
of Living into a charity program designed to help children
build self-esteem through art. For all his interests and passions, he says,
“What I really like is to encourage people.” —
Will Pry
ORGANIC PRODUCER
Growing and tasting red, sweet, juicy grapefruit has convinced Dennis
Holbrook that organic is better. In 1984, Holbrook, a member of the
Club at Cimarron
in Mission, Texas, established South Tex Organics. He is the only
commercial-size organic grower in Texas. His 400-acre Rio Grande Valley farm
yields organic grapefruit, oranges, onions, red potatoes, and watermelon.
“It stands to reason that produce grown in organically rich and balanced
soil will taste better,” he says. During the produce season, which starts in
November and runs through May, Holbrook ships to major grocery and health
food stores throughout the United States and Canada. His wife, Lynda, runs a
mail-order business (www.stxorganics.com) offering citrus in assorted size
cartons. In the off-season, Holbrook is a real-estate developer. He also
serves as board chairman of the Texas Organic Growers Association, sits on
the Texas Department of Agriculture’s marketing and promotion committee, and
the Organic Certification and Standards Advisory Committee. But there is no
off-season for Holbrook’s passion for organic farming. “I am gratified that
I ship produce that contains a high nutritional output,” he says. “It makes
me feel good about what I do.” —
Diane S. Dickinson
A SPOT OF TEAPOTS
Sonny and Gloria Kamm are passionate about teapots. So passionate that
since 1985 they have collected 6,000 teapots ranging from antiques to
contemporary designs. The Kamms, members at
City Club on Bunker Hill
in Los Angeles, are on
Art &
Antiques magazine’s list of America’s Top 100 Collectors. In
May, their 20th century collection, featuring 250 teapots by more than 100
artists, will travel to museums throughout North America. Sonny says their
most unusual teapot is a 10-foot-wide by 9-foot-high playhouse. It weighs
4,000 pounds, has a stucco exterior, hardwood floors, and a spout and
handle. The teapot is displayed in their daughter’s backyard where their
grandchildren can play in, around, and through it. Princess Diana’s mother
originally owned the couple’s most valuable teapot, the “Chinaman Teapot,”
though Sonny is not one to talk prices. It is one of only five produced by
Chelsea in England during the early 1700s. Sonny, an attorney, credits
Gloria, a docent at the Los Angeles County Art Museum, for having a more
“refined eye for art,” while he inhales all sorts of teapots.” His zeal is
plainly stated on his car’s license plate frame: “He who has the most
teapots wins.” —
Diane S. Dickinson
THE ARTFUL TEAPOT: 20th Century Expressions from the
Kamm Collection
North American Tour Schedule
May 16, 2002-Sept. 2, 2002
OPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts
Napa, California
www.copia.org
Nov. 2, 2002-Jan. 5,
2003
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Montgomery, Alabama
www.mmfa.org
Feb. 6, 2003-May
25, 2003
The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
Toronto, Ontario
www.gardinermuseum.on.ca
June 20
2003-Sept. 14, 2003
Long Beach Museum of Art
Long Beach, California
www.lbma.org
Oct. 18,
2003-Jan. 11, 2004
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago, Illinois
(Reserved)
www.ci.chi.il.us/Tourism/CulturalCenter
Feb. 1, 2004-June
1, 2004
Mint Museum of Craft + Design
Charlotte, North Carolina
(Reserved)
www.mintmuseum.org
* Venues marked "Reserved" are in the process of signing their contracts.
Photography by Jeff Rayer/Splashnews.com.
MAGIC MOMENTS
GOLF
Jamie Elliott, head professional at
Stonebriar
Country Club near Dallas, won the Fina NTPGA Championship (the
Northern Texas Section of the PGA of America) by five strokes with a
three-round total of 204 (-12). Elliott’s win earns him an exemption into
the 2002 Verizon Byron Nelson Classic and the 2002 Buy.com Permian Basin
Open…. Michael J. McColgan, 18, a member of
Crow Canyon
Country Club near San
Francisco, won the gold medal at the California State Special Olympics Golf
Championship…. Wendy Lodwick, Tricia Cooney, Heidi Andonian, and Julie
Farrell, women’s team members from
Quail Hollow Country
Club near Cleveland, recently competed and won the
Northern Ohio PGA Oldsmobile Scramble Sectional Championship.
CHARITIES
The annual TaylorMade-adidas Golf "Fore" Your Heart Pro-Am Tournament,
held this year at
Shadowridge Country Club
near San Diego, raised a 16-year record high $130,000 to benefit
cardiovascular services and the Heart Center at Tri-City Medical Center in
Oceanside, California…. The Southwest Section of the PGA partnered with
Gainey Ranch Golf
Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, for a charity golf tournament
called "A Drive for America." More than $100,000 was raised for the American
Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Participants each paid a $100 minimum
donation, although one member paid $1,100 to play…. The
Columbia Tower Club
in Seattle raised more than $100,000 for the American Liver Foundation
at its annual celebrity chef dinner…. The 10th Annual Family Health Center
Pro-Am at
Brookhaven
Country Club near Dallas raised more than $30,000 for the
Andrew Magee-Scott Verplank-Brian Watts Family Health Center, which provides
medical assistance to underprivileged families in the area. The namesake PGA
pros grew up playing in Brookhaven’s junior program…. With the aid of a
match from its Partners Assistance Fund,
Barton Creek
in Austin, Texas, raised $28,000 for the American Red Cross Relief Fund. The
resort set aside one day for members and the public to play for a minimum
donation of $100 to the American Red Cross….
Fair Oaks Ranch
Golf & Country Club near San Antonio, Texas, exceeded
expectations during a recent golf tournament fund-raiser. Though the club
set a goal of $10,000, the final tally came to $14,650, which was raised to
benefit the American Red Cross Relief Fund.
KUDOS
Leonard G. Cooke, chief of police in Portsmouth, Virginia, and a member
at
Town Point Club
in Norfolk, Virginia, has been elected president of the National
Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives…. Mr. and Mrs. Victor LoBue
of
Indian Wells
Country Club near Palm
Springs, California, celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary at the
Silicon Valley
Capital Club in San Jose,
California.