NJSGA CSF Kicks Off 70 For 70 Campaign In Late Summer Issue Of NJSGA Golf Magazine
Seventy years have passed since the first caddie was awarded a grant from the New Jersey State Golf Association’s Caddie Scholarship Foundation to further his education.
In that time, the CSF has raised more than $13 million and nearly 3,000 caddies have received college tuition grants from the NJSGA. In honor of the 70-year milestone, the NJSGA Caddie Scholarship Foundation is conducting a campaign to award even more in tuition grants to young men and women in New Jersey.
Ben Del Vento, Sr., Chairman of the Foundation, and a Caddie Scholar alumnus, invites all golfers in the state of new Jersey to join the Caddie Scholarship Foundation in celebrating this year’s significant milestone by participating in its “70 For 70” campaign. The program’s objective is to reach $1 million in fundraising this year to increase annual scholarship awards.
While many New Jersey member clubs and their memberships participate in an automatic billing contribution to the Caddie Scholarship Fund, often at the Par Club level, the CSF hopes to reach the golfing community which may not have access to caddie programs at their respective clubs, but still values the tradition and the experience.
$70 not only represents the seven decades of this wonderful program, it also—fortuitously---is the average equivalent to a caddie fee for one round of golf with a caddie in New Jersey.
On Wednesday, June 21 at the NJSGA Caddie Scholarship Foundation’s Annual Caddie Reception at Galloping Hill Golf Course, Del Vento unveiled the Program’s commemorative campaign. “We are announcing tonight our ’70 For 70’ campaign in which we will ask contributors to donate $70 in honor of our 70 years. We are proud to have reached this milestone.”
“We have received so many letters of congratulations on our 70thanniversary. Our Caddie Scholars have achieved so much in many different fields. We have to be thankful for the opportunities the great game of golf has given us all for 70 years and for many more years in the future,” Del Vento said.
Thank you for “Keeping the Caddie in Golf” for seven decades and recognizing that “education is the most precious gift.”
