John Schiro will let you know that the museum the late Lee Brandenburg created at Cinnabar Hills Golf Membership in South San Jose is much more than you’ll discover at nearly any golf course within the nation.
“Most country clubs have a museum to talk about their history or if they have a great player,” mentioned Schiro, who’s the curator of the Brandenburg Historic Golf Museum. “But nobody has one that’s about the history of the sport.”
Schiro gave a chat concerning the historical past of the museum and a few of the key elements of the gathering to a bunch of a pair dozen folks that included Brandenburg’s spouse Diane Brandenburg; professional golfer Ken Venturi’s son Matt Venturi and grandson, Andrew Venturi; San Jose Sports activities Authority CEO John Poch and members of the San Jose State males’s golf staff with their coach, John Kennaday.
Brandenburg, who died in 2017, began taking part in golf in highschool and was a passionate fan of the sport all through his life. Schiro advised tales about Brandenburg, when he was a second lieutenant stationed at close by Camp Gordon and sneaked onto the course at Augusta Nationwide to look at Dwight Eisenhower, then the President-elect, play. He wound up assembly Ike that day, and later Brandenburg acquired Eisenhower’s inexperienced members jacket. (A reproduction of it’s on show at Cinnabar Hills, as the dear unique is underneath lock and key.)
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The gathering took many years to construct, and when Cinnabar Hills opened in 1998, Brandenburg thought he would share it with the individuals who got here to the membership nestled within the Coyote Valley.
Within the early 2000s, the Brandenburgs met a silversmith in England who crafted replicas of golf’s 4 main trophies and the Ryder Cup, that are every displayed in instances together with a duplicate of the U.S. Beginner trophy. The USGA and different associations despatched threatening letters insisting the unlicensed replicas be destroyed, however Brandenburg ignored them — or replied within the profoundly destructive.
These are nonetheless on show, together with classic golf balls and golf equipment, tributes to famed golfers like Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Arnold Palmer. There’s a framed correspondence between Hogan and Hugh Hefner, who was making an attempt to get the famed golfer to jot down an article for Playboy in 1956. Hef supplied potential subjects like “The Natural Superiority of Oysters” and “Women Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Vote,” however Hogan declined claiming he was simply too busy.
Certainly one of Brandenburg’s favourite artifact was a Royal Blackheath captain’s tailcoat from Scotland. Schiro mentioned he generally rearranges the items on show for selection, however when he moved the tailcoat following Brandenburg’s loss of life, he had an eerie feeling Lee wouldn’t like that.
“He had a big passion for golf, and because of his passion, this is what’s come out of it,” Schiro mentioned of the gathering. And it’s price a go to whether or not you’re a fan of golf or historical past.
SPARTAN CELEBRATION: There was numerous San Jose State pleasure on show Thursday evening at “Spartans of Significance,” the Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony held on the Scholar Union Ballroom. The honorees — Neat CEO Janine Pelosi, Bette and Dave Loomis, Decide Robert Rigbsy, Meeting Speaker Robert Rivas and Oracle co-founder Ed Oates — all had their very own tales to inform about how SJSU and public schooling usually opened doorways for them. It was nearly sufficient to make a man enroll in grad college.
There have been a couple of surprises through the night, beginning when Assemblymember Ash Kalra introduced to the gang that San Jose State President Cynthia Teniente-Matson can be honored as his district’s Lady of the Yr for 2025. The remainder of the gang bought a deal with when the San Jose State Choraliers, led by Dr. Jeffrey Benson, belted out a few tunes. It was a pleasant warmup for the group, which has a live performance March 8 at Campbell United Methodist Church and shall be heading out on a European live performance tour by means of Italy and Slovenia.
Talking of Spartans and celebrations, Milan Balinton, government director of the African American Neighborhood Providers Company in San Jose, was set to function the honorary coach of the San Jose State Girls’s Basketball staff Saturday — which additionally occurred to be his birthday.
GETTING JAZZED: The Boys and Women Golf equipment of Silicon Valley packed a ballroom on the Marriott San Jose on Feb. 7 for its annual Youth of the Yr Gala, the place a Reside Oak Excessive College senior, Alina, was honored with a $10,000 award for faculty bills and can symbolize the area on the Northern California Youth of the Yr Competitors. The golf equipment solely determine their Youth of the Yr by first identify.
There’s extra excellent news on the best way for the group, which would be the beneficiary of a live performance by the band All Issues Swamp on March 1 on the SJZ Break Room in downtown San Jose. The band, which is within the custom of New Orleans second line funk and blues, is releasing its new album, “Fully Dressed.” The group has a powerful lineup of West Coast musicians, together with Brian Switzer on trumpet, Aaron Lington on baritone sax, Dean Parks on tenor sax and guitar and Dan Gordon on tenor and bass trombone. The present begins at 2 p.m. and tickets can be found at www.sanjosejazz.org/occasions, with a minimal of $75 prompt.
AT THE MOVIES: Having simply wrapped up its Frank Capra competition, the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto is popping its tasks to a few different nice administrators. The basic theater on College Avenue will display screen films by Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamoulian and Josef von Sternberg by means of late April. Take a look at the complete lineup at www.stanfordtheatre.org.
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