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It takes more than cold wind and rain to keep our West Michigan SPE members off the golf course. Despite the conditions, we had almost 200 players enjoy a round of golf, lunch and dinner at Thornapple Pointe and Railside Golf Clubs.

This outing is our main fundraising effort for scholarships and grants given out each year to local students working toward a career in our industry. This years outing was another success with over $7,000 raised! Thank You to our many sponsors, participants and volunteers who made this years outing another success! Our Sponsors were:

Alloy Exchange
Bamberger Polymers
Action Mold & Engineering
Vaupell Midwest Molding
Mold Masters
Americhem
Soliant
Poly One Distribution Ashland Distribution
PolyOne Color TH Plastics
Vi-Chem

We are thankful as well for the generous prizes donated to the event by:

Alloy Exchange
TH Plastics
Action Mold & Engineering
Exxon
Performance Polymers
Bamberger Polymers
Clariant
Negri Bossi
Poly One Distribution
Extol
Intec Sales Company

M-Holland, Bissell and Grand Haven Plastics provided Grand Prize Donations.

I would like to thank my course volunteers that made the event run smoothly: Ricardo Ramirez, John Sturgeon, Mike McKloskey and Lori Foltz.

Congratulation to the event winners:

Railside Golf Club:
Closet to Pin: Randy Antaya
Longest Drive: Bruce Bertelson
Winning Foursome: Up Country Building with a score of 57

Thornapple Pointe Golf Course:
Closet to the pin: Becky Landis and Tom Kemppainen
Longest Drive: Michelle Courneya and Mike Cain
Winning Foursome: Poly One Distribution with a score of 56

Again, thank you all for your support! The 2008 West Michigan SPE Golf Outing will take place again next year on September 6, 2008 so mark your calendars. Please feel free to send me any comments or ideas for next year’s tournament so we can make it even better in years to come.

Matt Yanik
West Michigan SPE Golf Outing Chairman