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ThanksgivingDay Buffet

Thursday November 27 th

11:00am-1:00pm

Call for Reservations (909) 882-1735

We’re finally back from vacation! Gina and I spent two weeks on

Maui and pretty much split our time playing golf and shopping to refresh the condo. Last week we were at the New-port Coast. We had a good time, but like most vacations, it’s good to get home.

The one week or so that I was here, Wayne and Roger Work recruited me into hard labor. We had a drainage prob-lem in the snack shop around one of the floor drains, so we jack hammered and dug out the floor to get to the innards of the plumbing. The culprit was an old cast iron trap that had finally given up the ghost. It was cracked and had a hole in it about the size of a fifty-cent piece. Once replaced, we had to refill, re-con-crete and re-tile the floor and replace some wallboard and seal it up. Good as new and saved a lot of money.

We continue to manage a very difficult cash flow situation each month as well as a drop of 1 to 2 members. Thank you to all who continue to support and participate in your Club.

Our transition to new software for the club is underway. It’s a fully integrated package that covers everything from the pro shop to the restaurant to the front office. It should provide us with greater efficiencies and eliminate a lot of “hands on” effort.

Our introductory program continues to succeed, but remember it takes two in-troductory members to generate the same income as an equity member. If you know anyone that may be interested in joining, please talk with them or give Elise or Wayne their contact information. We need your help – and remember the incentive pro-gram is still in place.

-Gary

Arrowhead Country Club Newsletter

Gary Schelin - PresidentGary Schelin - President

Arrowhead Country ClubMembers of

November 2014November 20143433 Parks ide dr san Bernardino, Ca 92404 (909)882- 1735

Adults $28.95 Children $13.95

Arrowhead Country Club Newsletter November 2014

rrowsAWe start this months

article with a shout out to Eve Clayton. Eve recorded her 7th lifetime hole in one on October 26th while playing with her father Jerry Patterson. A perfectly struck hybrid to a middle pin on hole #4 gives Eve now 4 hole in one’s at Arrowhead C.C. and her second on the 4th hole. Mr. Patterson is still without one himself but has been present during 4 of Eve’s hole in one’s. Congratulations to the both of you and we hope that Eve is present for Jerry’s first.

For November we are going to have our annual

G L O W IN THE DARK Jack n Jill on the 14th. This will be a 5:30 pm shotgun start with dinner to follow. Sign up with another couple and come on out

for some fun in the dark.

The ladies will have their monthly meeting and draw on the 6th with a 9am shotgun start. The ladies Thanksgiving tournament will be on the 20th with a 9am start.

The Golf Course will be closed on Monday, Nov. 10th until 2pm,

Thursday, Nov. 13th & Monday, Nov. 17th. As always if you would like to play elsewhere on these days we would be happy to help with other arrangements.

See you on the course.

AWGAArrowhead Women’sGolf Association

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Activities planned for November:

November 6th, 9:00 a.m. shotgun -

Putts and Platters, followed the General Meeting

November 11th, AWGA Play,

make your tee timesNovember 20th,

Thanksgiving TournamentNovember 25th,

AWGA Play, make your tee times

The golf shop guys.

1st Quarter Ringer Results 2014-15“A” Flight

Gross Net1. Lisa Richey 1. Judy Graves2. Eve Clayton 2. Heather Hundley3. Katie Ankrum 3. Ann Doty & Miyako Fletcher (tie)

“B” Flight Gross Net1. Pris Krasney 1. Julie Garcia2. Gina Schelin 2. Nancy Hedding &3. Linda Foster Margy Spears (tie)

NEWLY APPOINTEDACC BOARD MEMBERS &

APPOINTEESGary Schelin, President

Gene Tate, Vice PresidentWacy Armstrong, Club Attorney

Robert Martin, SecretaryEve Clayton, Treasurer

BOARD ORGANIZATIONLarry Fletcher (3rd yr.)-

Greens and Mens InvitationalGene Tate (3rd yr.) - Pool, Tennis & Skeet

Dr. Monty Maples (2nd yr.)- Pro Shop & Risk Management

Ken Williams (2nd yr.) - Golf, Jr. Golf & Handicap

Merrily Roesch (2nd yr.) - House

Karl Doerner (1st yr.) - Social, AWGA, & PublicityBernard Kersey (1st yr.) -

Energy & Membership Roger Work (1st yr.) - Finance

STAFF MEMBERSWayne Austin -

General ManagerSergio Victorio -

Food and Beverage ManagerRachele Rechou - Chef DeCuisine

Sean Cherry - Director of GolfAlan Briggs -

Head Golf ProfessionalElise Campbell -

Membership Director Tisha Cable - Office Manager

Peder Rauen - Course Superintendent

NUMBERSArrowhead Country Club

(909) 882-1735Fax-(909) 882-7262

Pro Shop-(909) 882-1638Office email-

[email protected] Shop email -

[email protected]: www.arrowheadcc.org

Most Improved Player for the month of September was Linda Foster followed by Liz Hiltabidel, Miyako Fletcher, Eve Clayton and Pris Krasney.

October’s Platter winner was Nancy Hedding with a net 72. Putt winners were Katie Ankrum, Vicki Goeres, and Denise Work who tied with 29 putts.

Because WSCGA is hosting a CIF tournament at ACC on November 13, AWGA play will be on Tuesday, November 11. Also, with Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 27, AWGA play will be on Tuesday, November 25.

Our Thanksgiving Tournament will be November 20 with a “Turkey Trot” theme. This will be a 9:00 a.m. shotgun, $25 per participant, beakfast provided. This will be a really fun event! Sign up in the Locker Room!

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November 2014

Although it has officially been autumn for several

weeks, we are just now seeing and starting to feel the effects of this seasonal change. The cooler temperatures, shorter day lengths and minimized sun ex-posure are all the first signs that winter is on its way. It is import-ant during the fall months to be proactive in preparing for the freezing temperatures that await us in the months to come. Some of the preparation that has been done over the past few weeks in-cludes the overseeding of select areas around the property, the building and implementation of scatter blocks around the golf course, and cutting down rotten or potentially dangerous trees prior to the winter storms that are surely on their way.

For a variety of reasons, it was decided earlier this year that the only areas on our near-ly 100 acre property that would be overseeded are the tee boxes (2.0 acres), clubhouse lawns (.5 acres), and the driving range/practice areas (3.0 acres). De-spite the significantly reduced amount of acreage that was in need of overseeding this year, there was still quite a bit of preparation required to com-plete this process. The first step is spraying the soon to be over-seeded turf with a high rate of growth regulator. This greatly slowed the growth of the ex-isting common bermudagrass on the tees, driving range and clubhouse lawns. Several days after this application, the turf was mowed down to roughly half of its existing height. This “scalping” of the turf greatly reduces the carbohydrates that

are available to the plant and coupled with the residual effects of the growth regulators applied at correct rates, put the bermu-dagrass into an induced dor-mancy period. This “induced dormancy” allows for the cool season ryegrass seed to outcom-pete the bermudagrass for essen-tial nutrients and water that are needed during the germination period.

As many of you have surely noticed, many of the ropes and stakes around the golf course have been replaced with “scatter blocks” that serve a similar pur-pose while looking much clean-er and professional. These scat-ter blocks were built in-house for 8% of the cost of purchas-ing the same thing from a golf course accessory provider. This winter it is of utmost impor-tance that these scatter blocks are in place as most of the turf-grass on the golf course will be going dormant in a short few months. During a dormancy period the plant does not have the ability to regenerate itself and will therefore quickly suc-cumb to the traffic wear that is common at the beginning and ends of our “scatter-style” cart path design. Other areas that

will be particularly susceptible to traffic wear this year are the green surrounds which primari-ly consist of bermudagrass.

With winter storms ap-proaching, it is important for general safety to identify and re-move any rotten or precariously positioned trees throughout the property. Particular areas of con-cern are the tee and green com-plexes as that is where the most time is spent during a round of golf (hopefully at least!). These areas are also where golf carts are parked for sustained periods, causing potential for significant property damage. With this in mind, two rotten trees were re-moved from the tenth and the fourth tee complexes toward the end of the month. The remov-al of these very rotten trees was done carefully with extra pre-cautions being taken to ensure they landed in the proper place

and where any damage would be minimized.

In closing, I would like to kindly remind everyone that proper course etiquette can go a long way in improving overall course conditions. I mention this because, unlike past years, there are many areas (like the green surrounds) that were not overseeded and will become dormant just as the fairways have the past two seasons. Be-cause of this, I ask that all golf-ers strictly obey the ACC House Regulations that clearly state (UNLESS FLYING A HAND-ICAPPED FLAG) all golf carts must be

1) ON THE CART PATH WHENEVER ONE IS PRO-VIDED

2) AT LEAST 75 FEET FROM THE FRONT OF ANY GREEN, and

3) AT LEAST 40 FEET FROM THE SIDE OR BACK OF ANY PUTTING GREEN.

I sincerely hope that after this friendly reminder, all of you have enough pride in this club to not only obey these guide-lines but to also hold one an-other accountable when a fellow member is disregarding these community rules. Thank you in advance for your help in this matter.

Happy Golfing!

Peder RauenGreenway Golf Superintendent

Arrowhead Country Club

Greetings from

Your golf course maintenance crew


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DinnerPasta Buffet

5-8:30 pm


DinnerReal Taco Buffet

Buffet5-8:30 pm


DinnerReal Taco Bar

Buffet 5-8:30 pm


DinnerWestern BBQ

Buffet5-8:30 pm


Ladies’ General Meeting

8:00 am Shotgun

Putts & Platters

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Ladies Thanksgiving Tournament

9:00 am Shotgun

Thanksgiving DayGrand Buffet

11 am- 1:00 pm

Dinner Prime Rib & Fresh

Fish Special 5-8:30 pm

Wine Tasting6:00 pm

Free Jr. Tennis

Glow in the DarkJack&Jill @5:30

Dinner Prime Rib &

Fresh Fish Special 5-8:30 pm

Live EntertainmentOne in the Jar

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- Mondays Clubhouse Closed- Breakfast every Saturday & Sunday

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- Lunch, Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm(Unless marked on the calendar)


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Gale StocktonJunior Tournament

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Course Closed

DinnerReal Taco Bar Buffet

5-8:30 pm


College Football Championship Game

8:30 pm10th tee & Course

Open at 12 pmBar Open at 2:30pm

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Bar Open at 2:30pm


Heaven & Hell Tournament

8:30 am shotgun

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5-8:30 pm


Jack & Jill Tournament 12 pm Start


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Ladies’ Halloween Member/Guest

Tournament8:30 am Shotgun/Start

Ladies’ Christmas Tournament

9:00 am Shotgun

Christmas Day

Members Christmas Party and

Pro Shop Sale4:00pm

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Special 5-8:30 pmWine Tasting 6pmJack & Jill 5:30pm

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Prime Rib & Fresh Fish Special 5-8:30 pm

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Special 5-8:30 pm Free Jr. Tennis Jack & Jill 5:30pm

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Childrens Christmas Party

11:00am to 1:00pm

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Jack & Jill Tournament 12 pm Start


3 rd Sunday Brunch

Breakfast 7:00 am - 1:00pmLunch 11:00 am - 2:30pm

Clubhouse Closed

December

This is chapter twelve, and we are now standing on the tee of num-

ber 12 in keeping with the format of the holes being chapters in our evolving history of Arrowhead Country Club.

Our present number 12 was number 10 in the original routing.

It is late Monday afternoon, Decem-ber 4th, 1933, and if we happened to glance to the east across Pepper Tree Lane, it would be our last look at our first clubhouse, a structure that was erected by Mark Sibley Severance and his wife Annie as their ranch house in 1894.

When “it was built it was regarded as one of the finest suburban residence properties in Southern California.” It was known as the “Japanese Village” because of its “peculiar style” of archi-tecture. However, that night, in De-cember 1933 a blaze was ignited in the north-east corner of the building near the kitchen, and within a short time the building was consumed in flames and burned to the ground.

I never had a photo, descrip-tion or even an inkling of what the Severance home looked like. I only knew that it doubled as the Rendezvous Night Club and the clubhouse of the San Bernardino Valley Country Club in the last few years of its existence.

But thanks to Sue Payne, and her access to the archives in the California Room of the Feldheym Library, I end-ed up getting much more then I had hoped for.

Our club has a very impressive and interesting pedigree; enough for several issues of the Arrows.

Mark Sibley Severance (all his friends and family called him Sibley) met his future wife Annie Crittenden in San Francisco in 1879 and then traveled to the Inland Empire a few years af-ter they were married. The Severance family had real estate obligations in the Inland Empire that were incurred by T.C. and Caroline Severance, the parents of Sibley, that predated Sibley and Annie’s marriage. This real estate obligation was Rancho Muscupiabe... that’s right, they owned an entire Span-ish land grant.

However, the Severances were land poor and there were flaws in the owner-

ship of the Rancho that involved legal fees in order to clear the title. Annie Severance, Annie Crittenden, was not poor...she was very rich, and she was a niece of Mark Hopkins, a famous early Californian. So if we’re looking for the original endowment or the person who made Arrowhead CC possible, Annie is our gal. Sibley and Annie arrived in the San Bernardino area in 1885, and shortly thereafter started parceling out their Muscupiabe empire one signifi-cant property at a time. However, the Severances needed a base to work out of so they first carved out a home-stead of 129 acres for themselves that they named Valencia and built their home on it. That’s where we get the name of the Eucalyptus lined avenue that runs alongside our sixth and sev-enth holes. That 129-acre homestead would later become San Bernardino Valley Country Club in 1923, and the home itself the future clubhouse, but at the time the Severances were devoted to race horses and dog breeding.

This was a fashionable place this homestead, and the society sections of the local papers talked about the so-

cially-elect gathering there, but none of them were as elect as Mark Sibley Severance’s moth-er!

I do not have a photo of Sibley Severance or of his wife

Annie, but I have lots and lots and I mean lots of photos of his mother, and for good reason.

Caroline Severance was a member of the inner circle of that foremost suf-fragette Susan B. Anthony, the driving force behind the passage of the 19th amendment that secured the right to vote for women in 1922. That’s Caro-line standing and looking over the right shoulder of Susan B. Anthony in one of the photos I’ve included with this month’s essay. I also know that Car-oline Severance visited Valencia sever-al times, but I don’t know if she ever brought Susan B. Anthony along with her. I never met Caroline Severance or Susan B. Anthony, but I have met Lisa Richey and I know for sure, regardless of how foreboding the demeanor of Su-san B. Anthony, Lisa would definitely have charmed both those ladies into becoming members of our ladies club.


November 2014

Did you KnowB y To m S e l f

Susan B.Anthony

The Severance Family and our

First Clubhouse


November 2014

Pierre Ferland

Office:909.888.4802Fax:909.888.8982

Contractors License #901067E-Mail: [email protected]

275 South G StreetSan Bernardino, CA. 92410

Junior tennis clinics Mon, Tue, Wed,

From 4:30-6:00 pm Cost is $8.00 per player.

High School & VarsitySaturday, 11:00-12:30 PM Cost is $8.00 per player.

Adult clinic6:00-7:15 PM Wednesday, Cost varies on the number

of participants.Please contact Scott before the class starts

Please go to www.scottsmithtennis.com

For more info

Holiday CampComing soon

Free Junior tennis clinic2nd & 4th Friday. 4:00-5:00 PM,

Must RSVP Scott by 5:00 PM Wednesday of that week.

Free Adult tennis clinic4th Friday 5:00-6:00 PM

Must RSVP Scott by 5:00 PM

Wednesday of that week.

Lesson SpecialBuy 5 lessons and get the 6 for free.

Tennis this month

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NUMBERSArrowhead Country Club

(909)882-1735Fax

(909)882-7262Pro Shop

(909)882-1638Office email

[email protected] Shop email

[email protected]:

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lifetime hole

eve clayton

good time

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new software

floor drains

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