Meet Henry Boeschen ’27, Stanford’s only undergraduate greenskeeper

At 4:30 a.m., Henry Boeschen ’27 rolls out of bed. By 5 a.m., he’s sitting on a lawnmower at the Stanford Golf Course, tending to the turf while the rest of the campus sleeps. 

Early mornings are routine for greenskeepers — the behind-the-scenes workers who maintain the playing surfaces of the golf course every day. Boeschen, however, is the only undergraduate student on the Stanford crew. Once he clocks out, often around 10 a.m., the international relations major showers and heads straight to class.