t all started with a part-time
job nearly 40 years ago.
Jere Mills, the City of
Dallas Superintendent of Special
Services, retires in August after a
29-year career that saw him work
tirelessly to enhance the conditions of
the city’s six municipal golf...
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t all started with a part-time
job nearly 40 years ago.
Jere Mills, the City of
Dallas Superintendent of Special
Services, retires in August after a
29-year career that saw him work
tirelessly to enhance the conditions of
the city’s six municipal golf courses.
Mills improved the working
relationships between the city and its
golf course head professionals and
turned Dallas staples such as Tenison
Park, Keeton Park and Cedar Crest
into some of the state’s best munis.
But it might have never happened
if not Mills’ obsession for finding a
way to spend the summers of his
youth outside.
After graduating from A&M
Consolidated High School in College
Station in 1971, he accepted a tennis
scholarship to Texas A&M, where his
father was a professor.
During that
summer before college, an unusual
window of opportunity opened.
“From the time I was born,”
Mills said, “I’d spent every summer
outside.
In the summer of 1971, for
the first time in years, I didn’t have
to play tennis.
I wanted to
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