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Pictured in front of the Beach Club Hotel in Naples, Fla. at the 26th ASGCA Annual Meeting in 1972 are many ASGCA members proudly sporting their official red jackets, which were adopted in 1963. As ASGCA Executive Secretary Emeritus Paul Fullmer notes in “Presidents I Have Known,” the association began searching for a replacement jacket shortly after a guest at the hotel mistook an ASGCA member for the maitre d’and asked to be seated in the dining room. That, in addition to Past President Dick Phelps, ASGCA being asked when wearing the coat if he was part of a singing group, was the beginning of the end of the red jacket era.

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