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WCSU Alumni Golf Tournament on Oct. 18 at Richter Park

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DANBURY, Connecticut — Western Connecticut State University’s Alumni Association will host the 2023 Neil Wagner WCSU AA Golf Tournament on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, at Richter Park Golf Course, 100 Aunt Hack Road, Danbury. Proceeds benefit the WCSU Alumni Association Student Scholarship Fund. Tickets and sponsorships are available now at www.wcsu.edu/alumni/golf.

This year’s tournament will commemorate the 10-year anniversary of alumnus and former WCSU faculty member Neil Wagner’s passing. Wagner ’52 was former dean of the WCSU University Center for Lifelong Learning, Alumni Association Golf Tournament co-chairman and lifetime member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, among other roles at WCSU. This is the 37th golf event the Alumni Association has sponsored on behalf of the university, which is celebrating its 120th anniversary this year.

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. during the continental breakfast, and the scramble-format tournament tees off with a shotgun start at 10 a.m. The event also features lunch at the turn, hole-in-one prizes, on-course activities and entertainment, a par 3 give-away and tournament prizes, a silent auction and raffles. The day ends with a Player Awards Reception with a buffet dinner and complimentary cocktails at Café on the Green.

To register for an individual spot or foursome at the tournament, a reservation at the awards/cocktail reception only or to be a tournament sponsor, contact Director of Alumni Relations Tom Crucitti by Friday, Sept. 8, at crucittit@wcsu.edu, call the WCSU Office of Alumni Relations at (203) 837-9090 or go to www.wcsu.edu/alumni/golf.

For more information, contact WCSU Public Relations at pr@wcsu.edu.

 

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