Success at last!!

I want to send a big thank you out to all of those in my class who helped make the 2009 Turfgrass Symposium a success. I could not have done it without help from everyone, and I think it is safe to say that they day was a big thumbs up. I recently heard that we were even published about in the school newspaper!

Dr. Tom Hsiang, Ron Scheidel and Keith Bartlett were our key speakers for the day, and everything that they had to talk about was pertinent to our industry. I was feeling the stress big time at 4am when I got up at my house in Milton to get the day started, but by the time Ron hit the stage as our second speaker I began to calm down. Everyone was in their seats, they all had coffee (thank goodness for coffee!), and laughter was occurring in the room. The knowledge that I took away from the day surpassed the excitement that I felt when the day was over. Not just because it was over, but because it was a success. Everything went as it was supposed to, there were no mix ups, and I have only heard good things from guests and students alike.

To anyone who is thinking of running an event like this, let me tell you that it is 100% worth the stress you experience up to the day of. I didn’t know if I was going to make it at some points, but in the end, I wouldn’t take any of it back! I was so proud of myself to know that at 20 years old, I was able to pull off being the project manager for the 2009 Turfgrass Symposium entitled Doing more with less: Turf in tough times.

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