Bio

1950 Golf Team

Once again the Everett Junior College golf team ended the season as state champions, continuing a string of titles that began in 1947.  Chuck Kinney, Earl Allen, Ed Barfield, Stan Bruhn, and Nick Puhich all played for the Trojans in the regular season; the first four competed in the state meet held at the Kitsap Golf and Country Club in Bremerton.  

Kinney was the medalist in the state meet with a two-under par 70 – six strokes ahead of the second honors golfer - and the team’s gross score of 318 was nine strokes ahead of second place Olympic College.

Nick Puhich went on to play basketball at Gonzaga University; Stan Bruhn had a successful legal career in Mount Vernon; and Chuck Kinney served in the USAF as a pilot.

1951 Golf Team

The 1951 Trojan Golf team started the year with no returning golfers from the prior year.  That did not deter the team from capturing its fifth consecutive title under the guidance of local golf professional (and EvCC Hall of Fame member) Ken Tucker and faculty member Clarence Anderson. 

Regular season matches were held against Western Washington College of Education (later WWU), Seattle University, and Grays Harbor College.  The Trojans soundly defeated Grays Harbor 15-0 the week before the state championship meet.  In the title match the Trojan quartet of Chet Hamer, Chuck Horensky, Don Mulligan, and Fred Mercer bested second place Grays Harbor by 22 strokes.  This was the fifth consecutive state championship for the program.  Regular season participants included Jim Richstad and Bob Crane.  Hamer continued to golf throughout his life and coached high school golf on Orcas Island; Horensky and Richstad became educators, and Mulligan served in the Air Force and continued to golf until he turned 92 years old.