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1960 and 1961, who is a nine-time Fort Mitchell Club Champion, and who won the Kentucky State Senior Amateur in 1989. Dennis Hurley, who was a member of Covington Catholic High School’s State Championship Golf Team in 1969 and winner of the Kentucky Junior Championship in 1971. Margaret Jones, a part of the first group of inductees, who is a two-time winner of the Northern Kentucky Women’s Championship, won the Kentucky State Women’s Championship four times between 1962 and 1971, and was a threetime champion of the Cincinnati Metropolitan Women’s Tournament. Spencer Kerkow, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004, won the Northern Kentucky Amateur and the Central Kentucky Amateur Championships, and was a five-time club champion at Fort Mitchell Country Club before his death at age 26. The Amateur Championship was played in his honor and referred to as “The Kerkow” for a number of years. Robert Leach, a founding honoree, who won the Northern Kentucky Senior Amateur in 1995 and was the first recipient of the NKGA Distinguished Ser vice Award for his work in promoting local golf. He and Bob Schultz won the two-man Senior Championship in 2003 and 2004. Harry McAttee, another of the first-year inductees, who was head professional at the Highland Country Club for 36 years, was active in fundraising in the community, and loved to teach golf to old and young alike. The Harry McAttee Memorial Tournament is played each year to benefit the St. Luke Hospital Foundation. John Meyers, a first-year inductee and an original founder of the NKGA, who won the Northern Kentucky Amateur five times between 1946 and 1959, captured a Cincinnati Metropolitan title in 1951, and was a 13-time club champion at Summit Hills. Robert Schultz, a first-year inductee, who holds four Northern Kentucky Amateur Championships (1956, 1964, 1967, and 1978) and five Carran Memorial Titles, was Senior Amateur in 2001 and 2003, was named Senior Player of the Year in those years, won the Cincinnati Legends of Golf title three times, is a seven-time Summit Hills Country Club titleholder, and was the NKGA president from 2004 to 2006. A member of the Thomas More College Hall of Fame, he formerly coached the golf team there. Ralph “Pete” Stuntebeck, a first-year inductee, who began his golfi ng life as a caddie at Fort Mitchell Country Club; was the youngest golf professional in the United States, as club pro at Fort Mitchell at the age of 18; regained amateur status in 1937 and won numerous amateur titles including three Northern Kentucky titles and one Cincinnati Metropolitan; turned professional again in 1951 and was the head professional at Twin Oaks Golf Course for 26 years; and won both the Greater Cincinnati Stroke Play and Kentucky State Senior Open championships in 1955.
“Deupree Keeps on Winning,” CP, May 15, 1998, 1B. Northern Kentucky Golf Association. www.nkga .com (accessed on December 27, 2006).
Dennis W. Van Houten
GOOCH, DANIEL L. (b. October 28, 1853, Calhoun, Ky.; d. April 12, 1913, Covington, Ky.). Businessman and politician Daniel Linn Gooch (known as Linn) was born near Owensboro, where he was educated in a private school. At age 17 he entered the business world, by starting a company for the manufacture of medical supplies. The business was very successful, and after several years, Linn moved to Covington, hoping to fi nd an even larger market for his products. There he started the Cincinnati Drug and Chemical Company. Linn married Virginia Stout, and the couple had two daughters. The Gooch family lived at 520 Greenup St. As his wealth grew, Linn purchased a summer home, which he called Gooch Island, on the St. Clair River in the Virginia mountains. He entered politics in 1900 and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, as a Democrat, serving from March 4, 1901 through March 3, 1905. Linn lived a sedate existence during his retirement years, in the Arthur Apartments, at 545 Greenup St. In 1907 Gooch donated a 127-volume set of books, The War of the Rebellion, to the Covington Library (see Kenton Co. Public Library). He died in his Covington apartment at age 59 and was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. “Gooch, Daniel Linn.” www.bioguide.congress.gov (accessed November 22, 2005). “Linn Gooch Dies at Home in Covington,” KP, April 14, 1913, 2.
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH. Established in 1995 as a grassroots church with a handful of families, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (a member of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) now has about 350 members. The congregation dedicated a new building at 9066 Gunpowder Rd. in Florence, Ky., in 1998, and a Family Life and Education Center was scheduled for completion in spring 2008. “Good Shepherd Lutheran Bible School to Start,” KE, July 20, 2006, 4C. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. www.gslutheran .org/index.htm (accessed October 9, 2006). “Good Shepherd to Dedicate Sanctuary,” KP, November 7, 1998, 6K.
Melinda G. Motley
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES. Since 1916 Ohio Valley Goodwill Industries, which includes several Northern Kentucky counties in its ser vice area, has been providing ser vices for individuals with disabilities and other barriers to employment. The organization moved to its present facility in the village of Woodlawn, Ohio, in 1957 and in 2004 celebrated a grand reopening that marked a complete renovation of its 13-acre campus at 10600
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Springfield Pk. Over the years, many new programs and ser vices have been added. The Goodwill story is a simple but important one. Working in partnership with the community, Goodwill sells donated items in retail stores, and the funds received support programs and ser vices, such as the employment and training programs. At the core of Goodwill’s mission is its commitment to assist people with disabilities and provide services that encourage self-sufficiency. Goodwill’s rehabilitation employment and training division offers a multitude of programs and ser vices for individuals with disabilities and other barriers to employment. Ser vices for individuals include work evaluation, occupational skills training, work adjustment training, placement ser vices, job coaching support, and assistive technology. In 2005 Ohio Valley Goodwill provided ser vice to 2,609 individuals who were searching for vocational independence; 735 men and women were placed into competitive community employment. Goodwill’s work evaluation program assesses the individual’s need for additional rehabilitation ser vices such as skills training, placement assistance, job coaching, and assistive technology services. To help people develop needed vocational skills, Goodwill offers occupational skills training in four areas: office procedures and computer technology, janitorial ser vices, food ser vice, and grounds keeping and light janitorial. The job placement department provides services in the areas of job development, vocational exploration, market surveys, job-seeking skills training, and job retention. After individuals obtain employment, the job coaching department provides support including on-site job training, off-site ser vices, training in appropriate work behavior, self-advocacy skill training, travel training, personal adjustment, and long-term followup ser vices. Goodwill’s work adjustment training program offers an individualized program that reflects individual goals, wishes, and desires. The program serves individuals sponsored by county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities. In addition, Goodwill provides ser vice for transition students from various local school districts who are making the move from school to work. In 2004 Goodwill introduced its newest program option, CARE (the Center for Advocacy, Recreation and Education). The CARE is a ser vice that diversifies Goodwill’s program offerings to individuals with developmental disabilities, particularly those with personal care support needs. Goodwill also offers assistive-technology support for individuals either at home or in a work setting. The department helps to provide ser vices in a variety of areas including ergonomics, computer access, home accessibility, job-site accessibility, job accommodations, and seating and wheeled mobility. In Kenton Co., Goodwill has operated stores in Covington since at least the 1950s, in two locations