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Ninth Annual Peabody Golf Day
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paraphernalia. I looked good, but my ball was cursed," Broome explained with a big grin while enjoying a hearty sandwich at the luncheon. "I'm going to have to go home and have it exorcised or something. I played well with my irons, I stayed in the middle of the fairway, but I couldn't putt to save my soul.
"This is my second year playing the course. It's a great time and it's a chance to meet your neighbors."
Unfortunately, Broome had to let his next-door neighbors win because he had to ride home with them.
"Actually," he said, "Maybe I should have tried to win because it's only a 15-minute walk."
Broome considered this to be the opportunity of a lifetime for any golfer.
"I have friends of mine who I tell about this and they want to move to Peabody just to play here a year," he said.
Credit has to be given to the Salem Country Club for the generosity reaching out to the community.
"We feel very special that we can be involved in the community affairs within Peabody," said Robert P. McCormack, president of the club. "Not that we were the reason for it, but the community members of the City of Beverly and Salem are doing
man who has been behind the organization of Peabody Golf Day.
"Over the past nine years, Joe O'Boyle has gotten the whip out and he's asked these volunteers to help out to make this day a success," McCormack said. "The commitment will always be there for the Salem Country Club to do our part to be part of the community of the city of Peabody."
"Back in 1995, we were celebrating our centennial just as the club was celebrating their bicentennial," explained the 83-year-old O'Boyle, a Salem CC member since 1967. "I was part of a committee that was at that we try to do something community-related and the committee thought that was a great idea and they elected me chairman.
"We're going to put $21,000 in the bank from this year's tournament, so we're up to $184,000 [overall], and what we do is pay out the interest every year to the students so that if something happens for some reason and we have to discontinue the tournament, the students will still be able to benefit."
In addition to the scholarships, the club picks up all of the costs for the event, ensuring that every nickel goes to
Peabody Golf Day Chairman Joe O'Boyle (left) and volunteer Kathy Trainor shield themselves from the rain during Monday's event.
the community.
The Mayor of Peabody, Mike Bonfanti, does not golf, but was one of those attending the luncheon. "It's a great way to be here today to honor the two young people being given
Memorial Scholarship Fund were Jessica Cyr and Jace Correia. Cyr is a Massachusetts-Dartmouth graduate majoring in Portuguese and Political Science while Correia
added Peabody resident Tom Moran, who has played in all nine Peabody Golf Days.
"It's a great course and I can't say enough about it. We're lucky to be able to take advantage of it. It's nice of the club to do it for us and the kids."
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Team effort boosts Mallett in Social Club Race
by Tom Jensen
As printed in Peabody & Lynnfield Weekly News
July 10th, 2003 Edition
LYNNFIELD - Discipline, dedication and self-motivation are usually the words associated with competitive running. Teamwork, however, is a rarity, although it did play a role during last Friday's 36th annual Social Club Scholarship Road Race in Lynnfield.
Peter Mallett, a 20-year-old junior at the University of New Hampshire, recorded the fastest time at 15:41 while his fellow UNH training partner, Steve Meinett, finished just a second behind at 15:42 in the 3.1-mile race. But while Peter, an English major, was getting hosed off in the shade, Steve was just beginning to run the race a second time. Peter willingly acknowledged the roll that Steve, also 20, played in the race, "He gave me the win. His job was just to go out there and pull me. He's my training partner and he wanted to do another round. He's in a little better shape than I am right now."
Mallett and Meinett are two of the anchors of the cross-country team at UNH and generally run about 70 and 100 miles a week, respectively. Over the summer they try to run together twice a week. Steve Meinett's motivation for the race was not a selfish one,
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"[I was running] strictly for my buddy. I was helping him out. I told him before that I was going to do it twice. I'm thinking of doing a ten-miler so I wanted to go a little further. I figured I'll help him and then I'll just do it again." This win marks the third time that Mallett, a Manchester, NH native whose aunt lives in Lynnfield, has competed in this race. "Last year I was dehydrated and went out the back door. This year I used it as a tune-up race."
Meinett's selfless act personified a race in which the overall goal is to raise scholarship money for graduating seniors as much as lower finishing times. Meinett, a junior majoring in sociology, enjoyed running in Lynnfield for the first time but admitted that, "the second time was definitely tougher. I was feeling the heat."
As for the women's winner, it was up to Amy Wallace, whose younger bother Shawn had won the race the last two years yet had to sit out this year's with an injury, to defend the family name. With a winning time of 20:10, she did just that.
Originally from Wakefield, Wallace still had plenty of familiar faces surrounding her during the race, even though her brother was forced to watch from the crowd. "I'm here cheering on these guys. They're my idols," said Shawn, last year's injured winner.
Amy's older brother, Bill Wallace, a science teacher at Lynnfield High School, ran the race while pushing his daughter in a stroller. Amy's mother, Judy, also competed this year and said, "I am very proud of her. I am proud of my son who ran with my granddaughter, too." While Amy's mother didn't run last year
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because it was too hot, "I got up this morning and I said I
think it's okay."
26 year-old Amy Wallace, who graduated from Wake Forest on
a track and cross-country scholarship in 1999, has run this race
once before. "I ran faster last time and came in second. This
time I ran slower and came in first." Wallace, who lives in
Allston, presently works in a pediatrician's office in Boston
while she takes classes at Northeastern.
As far as Wallace's training goes, "I'm dedicated, I ran all
through the winter time when it was negative 10 degrees. Six
o'clock in the morning, every morning, and then go to the gym
after work. All you need to be a runner is tremendous self-
discipline."
As for the race itself, "I was running with a few guys for
awhile in a little group. Then for the last half-mile I was on
my own." Did Wallace ever peek over her shoulder to size up the
competition? "Never look behind you!" However, describing
herself more as a distance runner, Amy is looking forward to her
next race, "I'm definitely running Beach to Beacon up in Maine,
a 10K."
With 238 runners competing in this year's race the most
ever, Marianne Wronka, a Lynnfield resident who has worked 10 or
more races as a volunteer, was all smiles,
"Last year at this time [because it was so hot] we were
hosing people off [before the race]." The beauty of this race is
that you don't need to cross the finish line to be a winner.
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"The goal of this," Wronka says, "is that the money that we raise goes to the Lynnfield Couples Club Scholarship Fund."
The three graduating seniors receiving scholarships, all from Lynnfield High School, are Caila Nickerson, Sarah Gerbick and Richard Palermo Jr. Nickerson, whose mother is a teacher at LHS, is heading to Syracuse. Gerbick, a National Honor Society Member and psychology major, will attend UMass Amherst. You'll get to see Richard Palermo Jr., a business major, jogging with Peter and Steve at UNH.
School Superintendent Richard Palermo achieved the fastest time among male Couple Club members at 20:56 and Susan Beaulieu led the women at 27:01. Richard's wife, Jeannette Palermo, a key organizer of the event, was also all smiles, "I think the race went really well, since it was cooler than last year I think that helped us achieve our biggest turnout to date and we're certainly looking forward to next year's race."
Peter Mallett's advice to anyone looking to take away his title next year: "Run a lot. Run everyday. And you better have trained harder than I did." Or at least as hard as Steve Meinett did?