To
attempt a summary of this year’s Event,
it
must
begin with the huge crowd of Players who gathered together in the name
of
Charity.
180 in number.
Men,
Women, Boys, and Girls
… all ages and sizes … good people … community-minded citizens … coming
out to
the Park … signing-up to enter … buying extra mulligans … bringing
extra cans
and boxes of food … playing a couple rounds of Disc Golf … some names
and faces
from the past … some from the present … some sure to be in the future …
increasing the total donations to all-time Records … all on a one-day
event …
all in the name of the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma … some
notables
that I must point out with
extra donations of time, effort, and
cash:
Martin Norris (out
there all-day, from dark-to-dark); Carla Barton (on top of 180
scorecards);
Gary Nail (as
always helping everywhere and adding
$20); Jeremy Taylor (bringing extra bodies and extra fund-raising
prizes) and
Dan Bougher (helping raise-funds with those prizes); Brad Zimmerman
(always the
first $20 donation from a guy who never-gets-to-play in it); David Wise
(calling-out a challenge to others to match his $100, which he then
expanded to
$151); Scott “FurDog” Schumacher (the undeniable king-of-the-hill,
wearing his
pajamas, and adding $151); Evan McKee of the upcoming Fort Smith Bowl
(adding
$150 and extra prizes); Doug Duff (adding his smile and $100); Bud
Johnson
(adding $100); Dale Patterson (our Bartlesville TD adding $78); Cris
Hicks
(deferring his payout to add $33); Teresa Duff (adding $10); Susan
Hartman of
the Food Bank (showing up at the Park AND allowing us to “load up” her
vehicle
with all that food) and got Wal-Mart involved once again
(matching-funds-grant
$1000); Michael Barr (whose son Isiah Barr once again pulled his wagon
door-to-door
through his neighborhood and collected 117 pounds of food); several
Players who
wouldn’t take their change and asked instead to add-it-in;
Steve
and Kathy Ward for the Website work … all
Players who attend and play in “Flights Doubles Events” (mulligan
totals of
$508) …
and ALL the Players who
patiently stood in line to enter and play, thereby achieving for
2009 the
Biggest Ice Bowl results that Tulsa has ever accomplished.
Those results?
180 Players
5 volunteers assisting
731 pounds of Food
$5,081 of Cash
‘nuff
said
p.s. : Through all those Januarys
of doing
this … from the
earlier years when I got to play also … to the realization that I had
better
not … I needed to brace up and prepare for the masses of good-hearted
people
who are ready to respond positively for this Charity … Riverside Park
has
always been a great location for these efforts … but this is a note to
myself
as-well-as a note to the public … I will once again return in 2010 to
serve as
Tournament Director for your Tulsa Ice Bowl … and I will once again ask
in
advance to host this Event at Chandler Park … if we are
lucky:
Scott Schumacher, Marie Greninger, Pat Standingbear, Patricia Ward, and
Tulsa
County Parks will allow us the use of the Disc Golf Course(s) there …
in
January of 2010, look for two
Courses to hold all the possible players.
Best wishes and
regards to all of you,
Wayne
Forest
