Randall Herring
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andall Herring has spent his entire career at the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, Long Island. Indeed, his father, Ernest Herring, served National as General Manager from 1946 through his retirement in 1967. The Herrings, father and son, ran the National Golf Links for fifty-four years. Randall started at National in February of 1948 as a desk clerk, and in 1950 became a bookkeeper. He was drafted that December, and ultimately put in a tenmonth tour of duty in Korea. After his discharge in September of 1952, he returned to the National. For the next decade, he supplemented his duties as bookkeeper with fill-in roles at almost all categories of Club House employment except chef. After fifteen years Herring was promoted to assistant manager, and then to manager five years later upon his father’s retirement, and he served the club with distinction. After thirty-two years as General Manager and fifty-two years of employment at National, Herring retired in the Spring of 2000.
Randall Herring
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