Due to excellent weather and increased support, the 14th annual St. Anthony Golf Classic held on Monday, June 25, 2012 at the Carroll Country Club Golf Course generated a record amount for the hospital and its services, $55,214. Proceeds from this year’s Golf Classic are being designated toward the St. Anthony Pastoral Care Endowment. With this year’s proceeds, more than $615,000 has been raised through St. Anthony’s annual golf outing for hospital projects.

Hole-in-one sponsors for this year’s event were Ace Hardware, Champion Ford, Drees Company, Lenz Insurance & Real Estate, Walsh Motors, Wilkie Clothiers and Wittrock Motors. Evening social and awards time was sponsored by Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons, JEO Consulting Group Inc., 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 was the Iowa Hospital Association.

Major sponsors for this year’s event were Badding Construction, Bank of the West, Cassling Diagnostics, Cookie’s Food Products, Dell Perot, Deloitte & Touche, DePuy Orthopaedics, Drees Company, First Fiduciary Investment Counsel, Fisher Francis Trees & Watts, Graham Construction Co., Graham Group Inc., Harris Associates L.P., Horty Elving & Associates, ING Financial Services, Mediacom Communications, Neuberger Berman, Nelson Electric, Shared Medical Services, St. Anthony Auxiliary, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company Inc., and Stone Office Products.

Co-chairs for this year’s Golf Classic were Megan Badding and Ken Payer. Committee members included Kyle Atkinson, Tony Badding, Brent Baumhover, Stacy Boyer, Rob Cordes, Tom Duff, Scarlett Fleshner, Rachel Fransen, Doug Gifford, Caitlin Hagen, Shellie Haluska, Jodi Kanne, Ryan Milligan, Jerry Mowrey, Jill Schweers, Ann Slechta 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.

Pictured in Photo:
(1st Row) Caitlin Hagen; Rachel Fransen; Stacy Boyer; Jill Schweers; Ken Payer, Co-Chair; Todd Duff.
(2nd Row) Gary Riedmann, President of St. Anthony Regional Hospital; John Munson, Vice-President/CFO of St. Anthony Regional Hopsital; Deb Porter; Ann Slechta; Tony Badding; Wade Wilkie; and Scarlett Fleshner.
(3rd Row) Stacey Vonnahme, Ryan Milligan, Kyle Atkinson, Rob Cordes, Jerry Mowrey, Ed Smith, Interim CEO of St. Anthony Regional Hospital, Trish Roberts, and Shellie Haluska.
Missing are: Megan Badding, Co-Chair; Brent Baumhover, Doug Gifford and Jodi Kanne.