Board of Directors Meeting, February 4, 1954 2
years, and it is our way of saying "thank you." We will provide starters, take care of handicapping, and provide a "pro" to hold clinics. When it is concluded, we will have a cocktail party for forty-five minutes, and a buffet style dinner, and cards, for those who wish to play. We will make it worth while for whichever club is suggested, so that a profit will be made. You may wish to check on this, and can check with Maricopa Society, but wherever this has been previously held it is being held again. This must be arranged for the month of March, and time is needed to take care of the mechanics, the invitations, and so forth. All I need is authority to act with your Entertainment Committee. We have arranged so that the "pro" in the Club chosen will not be slighted. He will be paid a fee for the clinic and the prizes will be purchased from him.
Discussion opened.
Dr. Hileman--Do you have leeway with your entertainment so that you might consider underwriting the Picnic instead of the Golf Tournament?
Mr. O'Connor--This year it has been approved by the Company for a Tournament. It might be several years before we could obtain approval for your Picnic.
It might be nice if you would invite some of the men from out of town who do not normally get to these things--Davis-Monthan base and Veterans Hospital, Bisbee, Casa Grande, etc. It could be Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, and everyone come to the dinner and party on Thursday evening. If they can't get here in the afternoon, they could play in the morning and enter their scores. Each man is to play 18 holes. The first prize is for the low gross and the second is for low net. We would like very much to put this on for you.
Dr. Beaton--Is Dr. Pyre's implication correct that only golf players would be welcome at the party after the golf? Would we be welcome?
MR. O'Connor--Yes, you would be welcome.
Dr. Beaton--Is the Tucson Country Club making arrangements?
MR. O'Connor--We have not chosen a Club--we will leave that up to you.
Dr. Beaton--"Pfizer's-Physician's Tournament, sponsored by the Pima County Medical Society." Have you had any objections to using the word "sponsored?"
Mr. O'Connor--No, the reason for that name is that we would like to have it known as the "Pfizer-Physician's Tournament." We would not take part in it if any other pharmaceutical company entered into it at all. We want no lay publicity on it.
Dr. Bernstein--We have many physicians who do not play golf. If you are trying to show appreciation to us, there are those of us who play golf and those of who do not. Therefore, do I understand that members can accept though they have no intention of playing golf?
Mr. O'Connor--You would still serve the person who came to your bridge party after the game was over. The main reason for putting it in this manner is that in some places the idea of the dinner and party would become predominant, and it would lose the idea of being a Golf-Tournament.
Dr. Bernstein--Do I understand that the date has to be in March.
Mr. O'Connor--Yes, it will have to be in March. If you can give us 30 days, we can work out the mechanics.
Dr. Bernstein--This affair will be called a "Pfizer's-Physician's Golf Tournament. Where will that appear.
Mr. O'Connor--It will appear on the invitations. There will be no publicity whatsoever. The only place it appears is in our own journals which are sent to the men throughout the country. We do take pictures of the Tournaments, and can send you a souvenir picture as a memento.
It was moved by Dr. Beaton to go into executive session.
Dr. Bernstein thanked Mr. O'Connor for coming to the meeting, and he and Dr. Pyre were excused from the meeting.
