C.E. “Tuck” and Becky Tate Turfgrass Scholarship

Tuck and Becky Tate spent the latter part of their lives owning and running the Frankfort Golf Club in Frankfort, Michigan.  Tuck was instrumental in starting the Northern Michigan Turf Managers association in 1980.  When they sold their Golf Club in 1984, they donated $100,000 to MSU to endow their Scholarship, that began in 1986.  To date the total scholarship money total well over $400,000.

YEAR RECIPIENT
1989 Kevin Bramer
  Allen Clemons
  Keith Gawronski
  Michael Miesle
  Jonathan Santina
1990 Douglas Kendziorski
  Steven Sump
1991 Patrick Howard
  William Mock
  Richard Murphy
1992 Gary Chapman
  Steve Sowatsky
1993 Terry Boehm
  Glen Rochester
1994 Alex Greenacre
  Mike Kitchen
1995 Paul Emling
  Richard Fadely
1996 Michael Normand
  Brian O'Kane
1997 Matthew Haberkorn
  Brett Hudson
  Stephen Princinsky
1998 Don Lawrence
  Jose Makk
  Deron Rake
1999 Tavis Horton
  Chad Papke
  Scott Spooner
2000 Greg Bliek
  Timothy Lee
  Scott Suchenski
2001 Sean Flynn
  Jeffrey Rottier
  Frederic Ruffer
2002 Francisco Blasquez
  Antonio Pineda
  Scott Rose
2003 Nicholas Hillyard
  Alison Robart
2004 Brad Champine
  Christian Koval
  Joseph Krum
2005 William Holloway
  Bradley Kiepert
  Kevin Wilson
2006 Nathaniel Borth
  William Devries
  Paul Grabbe
  Christopher Groene
2007 Joaquin Berjano
  Brent Kovacs
  John Smalley
2008 Matthew Belecki
  Brandon Drzewicki
  Christopher Parsons
2009 Joshua Fuhrman
  Michael Wallace
2010 Thomas Ham
  Diego Penapareja
  Robert Pray
2011 Brian Hilfinger
  Andrea Patussi
2012 N/A
2013 Thomas Jacobs
  Alex Lincoln
  Michael Montney
2014 Eric Chestnut
  Scott Peck
  Michael Stakoe
2015 Andres Gonzalez-Onieva
  Michael Wright
2016 Ryan Bearss
  Carlota Sanchez de Ocana Hudobro
  Lewis Nowakowski
2017 Jason Decker
  Peter Zeiger
2018 Sean Mcgorisk
  Justin Mooney
2019 Eric Boyle
  Nick Young
2020 Ismael Herruzo Delgado
  Adam Nadeau
  Cameron Wyatt
2021 Clayton Hoekwater
  Darryl Jackson
  Colin King
2022 Cole Luck
  David Parker
2023 Ben Grainer
  Eli Vandenbrand
  Alex Nagy