Meet the Staff

 

 

 

Rusty Mason is the Club's General Manager as well as the Head PGA Professional.  An Indiana native, Rusty joined Morris Park in January 2002. He served as the Head PGA Professional at Cambridge Golf Club in Evansville, Indiana from 1999-2001.  Prior to that, Rusty spent seven years at Sultan's Run Golf Club in Jasper, Indiana, first as an Assistant Professional (1992-95), then as the Head PGA Professional (1995-97), and then took on additional duties of General Manager from 1997-99.  He was an Associate Golf Professional at the famed Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland from 1991-92.

Rusty turned professional in 1990 shortly after he married his wife Susan, and they have two children; son Austin (14), and daughter Gabrielle (8). He played golf one year at the University of Maryland under former Coach and now PGA Tour/Champions Tour Player Fred Funk before transferring to play golf at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications.

Kathryn has been employed by Morris Park Country Club for nearly18 years. Starting out as a server and then a bartender, Kathryn worked while attending college at Indiana University, South Bend, where she became a published poet in the 1997 IUSB Analecta, and obtained a Bachelors of Art degree in Psychology in 2000, with additional concentration in Sociology and Women’s Studies. In 2003, Kathryn was promoted to a newly created House Supervisor’s position and was then promoted to Morris Park’s Clubhouse Manager in 2005.

 

Kathryn is a South Bend native, a Marian High School graduate and had previously worked for Gordon’s Jewelers as an Area Accounting Supervisor in South Bend, Mishawaka, and Indianapolis, Indiana, Benton Harbor, Michigan, Toledo, Ohio and Dallas, Texas. Multitasktress extraordinaire, Kathryn’s hobbies’ include Eastern and Western personality theories and enjoying the great outdoors with her daughters, family and friends.

 

 

Anne Landis joined the Morris Park Management Team in February 2003.  She heads up the Special Event and Club Event Department for the Club.  Her expertise and practical advice as a Professional Wedding Planner has served the Michiana area for over a decade.  In addition to helping members and clients plan the perfect wedding reception, business meeting or special event, she can also provide wedding planning services from concept to completion.

 

Prior to her arrival at Morris Park, Anne enjoyed a successful career in design and marketing.  Anne received her planning education through ISES (International Special Events Society), and is still an active member.  She is a contributing editor for the Northern Indiana and Southwestern Michigan Wedding Day Magazine.  Originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Anne now resides in Granger, Indiana along with husband Jim, and four children, Jeremy, Justine, Julia, and Joey.

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Philip took the reigns as the Executive Chef in January 2007, moving up the Morris Park culinary ladder from Sous Chef.  His education includes a short stint at Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis, before he decided to pursue a degree in the culinary arts.  He graduated at the top of his class with a 4.0 G.P.A. from Le Cordon Bleu's Western Culinary Insititute in Portland, Oregon in 2004.  His work experience includes Vinnie’s Restaurant, a premiere fine dining restaurant in Auckland, New Zealand, Oakley’s Bistro in Indianapolis, Del Friscoe’s Double Eagle Steakhouse in New York City's Rockefeller Center, and Broad Ripple Steak House in Indianapolis.

 

Philip is a Mishawaka native and a 1998 graduate of Mishawaka High School.  He enjoys watching Michigan State football and basketball along with his beloved Indianapolis Colts.  He resides in Mishawaka with his lovely wife Jessica, and two daughters Payton 4, and Lauryn 5 months.

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Becky’s been with Morris Park Country Club since 1988. Starting out as the Assistant Club Manager under the tutelage of European born and bred Luis Leal, Club Manager, she worked from 1988-1996 spending the majority of her time coordinating club banquets/events, working round the clock and getting to know the ins and out of country club life. In 1996, she transferred into the accounting office as a result of her marriage to “Plumber Dave”, who insisted she “have a life” and “stop working nights, weekends and holidays” so they could spend more time together…She whole-heartedly agreed with his vision and happily demoted herself to the office assistant working only 4 days a week and reveled in her newly found private life. After a year of punching the clock, she was then promoted to Club Accountant when longtime employee, Marion DenOtter, decided to retire.  For the past twelve years, Becky’s been “counting beans” for the club, enjoying working her “banker’s hours” and looks to be with us forever…

Becky graduated from Clay High School in 1980 whereupon she attended Saint Mary’s College for one year as a math major. She then transferred to Purdue University and received a bachelor’s degree in Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management, Business Option in 1984. She graduated on the Dean’s List and was a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society, the Treasurer of Eta Sigma Delta (International Hospitality Management Society, Purdue Chapter), and spent time as a professional musician (piano soloist and accompanist) throughout her teenage years.

After graduation, she worked at the Ramada Inn of South Bend, working in reservations for a couple years and then as the Dining Room Manager. She came to Morris Park in 1988 at the ripe old age of 25 has been a loyal employee ever since…

She’s been married to Dave for over 12 years and is the proud aunt/great aunt to twenty-four nieces and nephews and the extremely proud parent of three “canine children” (a.k.a. “her babies” sans the epidural). She’s an avid Notre Dame football fan, so don’t be surprised to hear a frog-like voice over the phone on Mondays following the games.

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