St. Anthony Golf Classic

The ninth annual St. Anthony Golf Classic was held on Monday, June 25, 2006 at the Carroll Country Club Golf Course. Funds raised from the event totaled $51,246 which will be used to support education, recruitment and retention of healthcare employees. Over the past eight years more than $356,000 has been raised through St. Anthony’s annual golf outing for hospital projects.

Hole-in-one sponsors for this year’s event were Carroll Cycle Center, Drees Company, Hill-Rom Corporation, Hot Springs Spas, Rueter Red Power, Wilkie Clothiers and Wittrock Motors. Evening social and awards time was sponsored by RBC Capital Markets and Mid-Iowa Insurance and Real Estate.

Carroll Hy-Vee provided a grand prize gift package of $500 in Hy-Vee gift cards to the team with the overall best score. Winning team members were Lonny Lehrkamp, Dan Hannasch, Whitey Steinkamp and Jim White, all playing for Farner-Bocken Co.

Major sponsors for this year’s event were ABN AMRO Asset Management, Badding Construction, Cassling Diagnostic Imaging, Cookie’s Food Products, Deloitte & Touche, DePuy Orthopaedics, Drees Company, First Fiduciary Investment Counsel Inc, Graham Construction, Graham Group Inc., Harris Associates L.P., Horty Elving & Associates, ING Financial Services, JEO Consulting Group Inc., MediaCom Communications, Menninga Electric Inc., Shared Medical Services, St. Anthony Auxiliary, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company Inc. and Stone Office Products.

Co-chairs for this year’s Golf Classic were Brent Baumhover and Tom Duff. Committee members were Troy Auen, Megan Badding, Kurt Baumhover, Andy Eissens, Rachel Fransen, Cameron Janson, Matt Laing, Pat Macke, Zoe Ruchti, Ashley Schable, and Wade Wilkie. 

St. Anthony would like to thank all the volunteers, committee members and prize and gift sponsors for making this event a tremendous success.