b'I started here on July 2, 1982, three days before my 18 thbirthday.Again, I am fortunate to be on this list! A fun fact, our own Ryan Weeks after I started, a new Club Manager, Hans Pietsch, arrivedKrings trained under Charlie. Look at him now!from St. Louis, Missouri. Long story short, less than two years later, Aunt Kay and Hans fell in love, he accepted a position at the ParadiseLets talk about the gathering spaces inside the Valley Golf and Country Club in Phoenix, Arizona, where they movedClub. What rooms are used most often and how?and got married, and the rest is history! By September 1984, we had aForla carte, I would say the 1903 Tap & Table is most popular, just new manager, Dennis Watts, who offered me the full-time secretary/ because it is a casual space, with all the TVs, to gather, eat, drink and receptionist job. At some point I wore the badge of administrativecheer on your team! assistant and just a few years ago my title became Office Manager.For banquets, the Crystal Room is most popular. It gives our The title has never mattered. Im just happy and blessed to still be amembers privacy on the first floor for meetings, family dinners, or part of CCL this many years later. any kind of party for up to 20 guests.Obviously, everyone wants to be outside on the Patio in the Is there anyone at the Club who has you beat onsummer and around the new Cabana area with the pizza oven!tenure?The list of past employees speaks volumes about the kind of placeWere told you still have members call and ask CCL isLawren Brodd, a grounds maintenance mechanic, wasfor reservations for rooms by other names.here 50 years. He worked full-time for the Lincoln Fire Department,Oh yes. They still ask for the Grill Dining Room, which is now the becoming Chief, and gave us his Kelly days during those years.more formal Swingfest Room. Jim Williamson plays the piano down (Reader, these are scheduled days off in a firefighters shift schedule tothere on Friday nights, to add to the ambiance. I have to get my plug create a standard work week.) in since hes my husband! Boyd Fulmer, in grounds maintenance, was here 45 years. He alsoOr the Swingfest Room, now the Swingfest Lounge, or what many of worked for the Lincoln Fire Department and gave us his Kelly days. us call Myrnas Bar. Back in the day, this was an enclosed room, for Jerri Butler served CCL in bookkeeping for 45 years. During thismen only, at lunchtime. It had its own bar and TV. In the evenings, time, she left and moved to Guam, then came back and workedit was overflow for the Grill Dining Room. A gentleman named Burt from home until the 1980s when she started working in the officeNewton ran the Swingfest Room over lunch. The guys all loved Burt. at the Club. Well, we all did!You read about CCL Horticulturist Jeannie Hadwick, who retiredThe Main Dining Room is now 1903 Tap & Table. It used to be our in 2024 after 44 years, in the Spring 2024 LOOK. Jeannie workedformal dining room.many years as a seasonal employee, then went full-time, year- And the Snack Bar is now the Cabana, which dishes up a whole lot round, joining the Hadwick staff dynasty. Brother Tom Hadwick,more than hot dogs and ice cream!an irrigation specialist, worked in grounds maintenance for 40It was a lot to keep straight when the Club changed the names of years. Her father, Joe Hadwick, was CCLs golf course maintenanceall these rooms, especially for the member or staff person whos been superintendent for 33 years, and brother Charlie held that samehere any length of time. I had to post a map for all the office girls and role for 20 years. Brothers John and Bob worked many seasons asnew staff with the different dining areas and what their names used assistant superintendents. That Hadwick family on the groundsto be and what they are now, since what they ask for depends on who crew was something else! No one will ever forget them! They werecalls in. dedicated, hard workers.If these walls could talk continued on page 18.Kim WilliamsonCCL Office ManagerTom McKittericktom@ccl.cc |CLUB'