June 2015 Cover Story Preview: The Late, Great… Brother Curt Beusman
Posted: June 3, 2015 in Other News
Curt Beusman
Publisher’s Note: The Memorial Celebration for Brother Curt Beusman will be held at the Saw Mill Club in Mount Kisco, New York on Sunday, July 12th at 3PM.
You could live a long, long time and never have the good fortune of getting to know a human being as wonderful and as talented as the late, great Brother Curt Beusman!
Curt Beusman passed away at age 84 on Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Jane, Curt’s wife of 58 years, and Blair, their daughter, who passed from breast cancer, predeceased Curt. Curt and Jane also had two sons, Robert, a filmmaker, and Rick, who runs the family club businesses in Mt. Kisco, New York and Stamford, Connecticut.
Brother Beusman is what I, and many folks in our great industry, began to call Curt, the Founder and owner of The Saw Mill River Club in Mount Kisco, New York after he began to deliver his “10 Commandments for Health Club Operators” to industry audiences across the land.
Brother Beusman was an amazingly talented and diverse man with many achievements in his lifetime, including a Big 10 Conference Singles Tennis Championship while he was at Northwestern University and earning a Master’s in business at Columbia University and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of Cincinnati. He went on to co-found a company called Curtis Instruments with Edward Marwell in 1960. The company now has 15 offices, employs over 1,000 and produces $100 million a year in revenue. Curt then founded the Saw Mill River Club in Mount Kisco, New York (Note: The word River was removed from the club name a few years back, rebranding the club to be The Saw Mill Club). Curt and his son, Rick, also created, owned and operated the Sportsplex/New Windsor Club, Mount Kisco Athletic Club and the Sportsplex/Stamford Club in Connecticut. Curt served as past-President of the National Tennis Association (NTA) and co-founded IHRSA with Rick Caro, Dale Dibble, Jennifer Wayt Saslaw, Todd Pulis, Peter Donahue and myself. The man impressed and amazed most everybody in our industry.
We reached out to many across the industry to comment on Curt, so don’t miss what they had to say in the June 2015 Edition of Club Insider.
