Golf team benefits from coach’s generosity

by Sheldon Ocker

Oct. 18 board of education work session

For the fourth consecutive year, Revere High School boys golf coach Dave Archer donated his $5,135 pay back to the team he oversees.

“He’s never taken a dime from us,” said Revere Treasurer Rick Berdine.

Berdine revealed that a year ago, Archer spent the cash he contributed to buy a golf simulator, which not only is an effective teaching tool, but can be lots of fun to use.

Berdine said the simulator was installed in a portion of a storage room off the auxiliary gym. “I’ve been there,” he said. “It’s pretty cool.”

Berdine added that when an item is needed by the golf team but has not been budgeted, Archer uses the pay he has donated back to the program to procure what is necessary.

Archer is an accomplished golfer who has won the Fairlawn Country Club championship multiple times. When Barberton Brookside Country Club was sold to a real estate developer and could no longer serve as Revere’s home course, Archer stepped in and convinced Fairlawn CC to host the Minutemen.

According to Berdine, during golf season, team members help take care of the course and some work as caddies for club members.

Archer was a member of the Kent State University golf team and a teammate of Ben Curtis, the school’s most renown golfer, who won the 2003 British Open. Archer is vice president of a financial planning firm based in Bath.

Driving the bus

Whereas school districts across the country have worked hard to keep enough bus drivers, that is not currently a problem at Revere, which now has two new drivers in training.