b'IN THIS ISSUE121518 CHEF LORIN DOESNTSKY HIGH CCL CORNFEST!SKIP A BEET CCL PGA Director of Golf Nick Muller How Corn Guy left the maize to find Read about CCLs collaboration withgives CCL University traininga home and a love match.farmer-owned Lone Tree Foods andrecruits their wings.what they bring to your spring plate.192026 MEMBER TASTEMAKERS A TIME TO PLANT, THE WALK TO STORYBOOKCCL has the runway in golf and tennis style.A TIME TO PLAY Meet Mr. & Mrs. Jack Maly.Shop the collections on pages 19 and 25. Look out Mother Nature! Krings andQuitno are large and in charge.W e asked our GM/CEO Tom McKitterick, CCM, CCE,Tom played football at Southwest State University in Marshall, to give us a view from the stands of his storied past so our newest members can get to know him better.Minnesota, and signed on to the Hotel, Restaurant, and Chances are, even our longer-tenured members dontInstitutional Management program there. After two years he know hes a three-time CCL track star.transferred to UNL (his folks had retired to Lincoln to be near Yes, this is a three-peat, he says. I worked here in collegefamily), graduating with a degree in Food Service Management too. Hospitality, specifically restaurants, has been my thing since Iwith an emphasis in Restaurant Management. He was hired by was 15 and worked summers as a dishwasher and busser at HowardCCL as a server.Johnsons in Rapid City, South Dakota. My dad was stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base just outside Rapid City (his last Air Force assignment). I rode my motorcycle to HoJos and workedthe cash tips at Jax won out but his love of CCL, with its wonderful crazy late hours washing dishes for banquets at their conventionmembers, was ingrained.center. I worked my way up to cook by my senior year and still have nightmares about all the clams I breaded and fried for their FridayANOTHER LAP ON A FAST TRACKAll You Can Eat clam nights. Before graduating from UNL, Tom tells us, he had an internship at Many of you will remember Assistant Club Manager David Barrthe [then] new Cornhusker Hotel, and they hired him on after he and General Manager Hans Pietsch. Mr. Barr, with his Irish heritagegot his degree. About six months later Hillcrest Country Club was and strong accent, was proud of my Irish last name and hired me onadvertising for an assistant club manager. My club management March 17, 1983. career began when Club Manager Jim Roswell hired me. Side note, Tom was hired on at Jax Shack as a server at about the same time.Jims son, Jordan, is a longtime kitchen team member here at CCL! When fall came around, he had to decide which job to keep. He saysJim left about six months after he hired me. The Board at HCC did a HE IS PURECLUB | MOTORTom McKittericktom@ccl.cc'