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PRESENT AND FUTURE “The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.” ~ ROBERT HENRI, PAINTER
F
mem-
In the past 40 years, and most especially during the last 27 years while
bers must have the same philosophy: that they are nothing more
Barclay has served as president, the club has improved in profound
than its temporary guardians.
and fundamental ways, on the course and from the top floor of the
OR A CLUB TO ENDURE, every generation of
renovated clubhouse down to its basement, so recently hewed out of
The Newport Country Club will welcome its seventh generation
the stone that gave Rocky Farm its name.
of members during the next decade, but these are not separate waves of members; they are, instead, tied
We have a club that we can be
together by the links of family. Of
proud of, for its facilities, of course,
the 20 board members currently
but, more importantly, for what it
serving, four are direct descendants
values. This book was meant to
of NCC founders; two others are re-
gather our history before parts of it
lated to the Gammell and King
would disappear into the past. But,
families, from whom the club’s
during the process of its research
most significant lands were pur-
and writing, and every time a mem-
chased, and 14 members of the
ber reads it, this volume will serve to
board are related to past officers or
re-connect the club with its past, its
members of the board. With such continuity through the eras, it is
present generation to its predecessors, the members to their ancestors.
impossible to talk of the Newport Country Club without using the
With time’s steady march, we will become part of the history
word “family.”
that our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will read
Ninety-seven years ago, NCC’s two-man Green Committee con-
about. We are more than just a club, we are a family, drawn from
sisted of my grandfather Robert W. Goelet, and J. Gordon Douglas,
Newport’s history, drawn back each summer to the place where our
the grandfather of NCC’s current president, Barclay Douglas, Jr.
ancestors came. — Robert G. Manice, Vice-President, November 2013
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