New Members: September 2013

By Joan Buck

Alyssa Fogel is returning to her native Massachusetts after spending several years at Carnegie Mellon University as an undergraduate and as a coach. She sweeps and sculls, which makes her a versatile addition to the Women’s Sweeps Team. Her favorite rowing moment is sitting on the start line in the final of the W2- at Dad Vail, because it was a boat she put a lot of work into. Welcome to RBC, Alyssa!

RBC welcomes another international member, Avalon Valstarfrom The Netherlands. Avalon is studying medicine in Rotterdam, she is here doing research at Boston’s Children’s Hospital as part of her degree. She started rowing at her university at home and can both sweep and scull. Her preference is for speed, so she likes 8’s and 4x’s. Despite only a few years of rowing experience, Avalon has several great memories. One stand out moment, is racing the GB Women in the 4- at the Royal Henley. Avalon brings a lot of fun and interesting experiences to RBC!

A former coxswain AND rower at Carnegie Mellon University, Josh Harvey is joining RBC. He can fill any seat in any boat as he can sweep and scull…and cox! The triple threat. His most memorable rowing experience is staying out for 3 hours of seat racing in the rain. Outside of RBC, he works as an analyst for Liberty Mutual. Apparently, he is also a classical pianist, maybe The Blades will recruit him for their next show!

Liz England is a new member to the Women’s HPG. Originally from Virginia, Liz learned to row as a novice at Clemson University, before transferring to Washington State University, where she rowed for 3 years. A member on the 2012 U-23 National Team, Liz lists her most memorable rowing moment as winning the OKC Night Sprints in 2011.

Charlotte Cavaille is another international member at RBC, originally from Brest, France. She is currently a PhD candidate at Harvard University. She started rowing last year at Oxford University with sweep rowing, but is currently learning how to scull. Her best rowing memory is her first race, a bumps race at Oxford! If you’re not sure what that entails, track her down and she can explain it!

Jimmy Hughes works upstream at CRI as the equipment coordinator at CRI, but he is happily returning to RBC to row after a couple years break. He learned to row with the Michigan State University Club team and can both sweep and scull, so he will be a great addition to the Sweeps Men. As an MSU Spartan, Jimmy was happy any time his boat beat a University of Michigan boat. With Jimmy around, we can hope for some more delicious treats at the Head of the Kevin breakfasts, as he went to culinary school and aspired to be a pastry chef!

A native of Reading, Massachusetts, Julia Saraidaridis has just joined RBC, while in her surgical residency. She rowed at Andover, continued rowing in college at Dartmouth, where she enjoyed pushing icebergs off the bow on the Connecticut River in March. Most recently she was rowing at Ann Arbor Rowing Club, mostly sweeping, with a little bit of sculling experience. She is attempting to hike all 4000 foot peaks this summer and fall and she’s looking for hiking buddies!

Ragan McNeely is a masters’ rower who first learned to row at University of Oregon. During the 80s and 90s, he rowed with the recreational sweeps team at CRI and now has come to RBC. His favorite rowing memory is racing in his first HOCR in 2009 in the Masters 8, where they placed 10th out of 42 boats. It seems that he’s pretty handy, as when he was younger he rebuilt the engine of his VW bus and was able to drive it cross country!

New Members: May 2013

Catherine Parkhurst, originally from Greenwich, CT, is a new member of Womens’ Sweeps at Riverside. A 2011 graduate from Princeton University, Catherine lists Princeton women sweeping the top 4 events at Eastern Sprints in 2011 as her favorite rowing moment. Currently, Catherine is working on premedical requirements at Harvard Extension School. Please welcome her to RBC!

Claire Churchhouse is a citizen of the world (she’s British, but grew up in Abu Dhabi) and is joining us at Riverside, because she is in Boston working on her Post Doc at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. Claire learned to row at Oxford University and will be joining Womens’ Sweeps. Every row she doesn’t catch an ejector crab is considered a success for Claire.

Brookline Varsity Crew 2013 Season Recap

By Julien Mahler, Robert Richards and Aaron Sege, 2013-2014 Boys Varsity Captains

After a grueling winter training season that began in November, Brookline rowers left our high school’s basement and flew to Georgia to begin our spring season in February. Rowing on Lake Lanier, the 1996 Olympic course, we practiced sculling and sweeping in all boat classes before scrimmaging against Arlington-Belmont, who had also come down for the school vacation week. All Brookline boats won.

We kicked off the racing season on April 6 with our only race on the Charles. All four boys boats beat Hingham. The two girls boats both lost to Hingham but beat Boston Latin, retaining the First Salvo Sup. At the Andover-Exeter Invitational on Lake Quinsigamond two weeks later, the boys first boat achieved a huge upset by knocking down Andover, finishing in second behind Exeter in a very close race. The following week was the Lake Quinsigamond Cup hosted by Saint John’s, which both the boys and girls first boats won.

We had a very strong showing at the USRowing Northeast Regional Championships, our Nationals qualifier. Of our boats, the girls quad and four both made it to the semifinals. The boys heavy four made it to the semifinals and the boys light eight finished fourth in the finals, just short of a Nationals berth.

Both the light four, consisting of Adam Rintell ‘13, Julien Mahler ‘14, Cam Chiasson ‘13, Jacob Anmahian ‘13 and coxswain Max Condon ‘13 and the light double, consisting of Jack Ruske ‘13 and Jordi Cabanas ‘15 won gold, easily qualifying for Nationals in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Both the boys and the girls qualified all of their varsity eights for NEIRA Champaionships nad raced against the fastest schools in New England. The girls first boat came in fourth in the petite finals, and boys came in third.

The Massachusetts Public School Rowing Association Championship was our culminating race as a team. The race course was shortened from 1500m to around 1200m due to a very strong tailwind, making all the races very fast and close. In the finals, the girls third boat came in fourth, and their second and first boats both came in fifth. The boys first, second and third boats all captured silver medals.

Nationals, in Tennessee, was the last race for the seniors in Brookline colors–a graduation of sorts from Brookline Rowing. Alas, those who went had to forego Brookline High School’s official graduation, which was the same weekend. The light four did considerably well, placing fourth in the C final. The double, who placed first in their heat and semifinal, did no different at the Grand Final, speeding down the course to win first place and be crowned fastest light double in America.

Catching up with Rob White

How did you get started in rowing?
I started rowing in 1986 at the University of Rhode Island.  It was the spring of my sophomore year, and I had spent the last half of the fall recovering from a cycling injury. I was living with a group of rowers and they let me joint them in their winter training, helping to jumpstart my training again.  It was time for them to go out on the water and me the road, but something happened and I ended up sitting in a boat with socks on my hands and an oar in my hands.  I was very interested and tried to make it work for two more semesters before I took a year off to hike the AT. When I went back to school I realized sculling was in my future; I’m not the greatest team sports guy. I purchased a used Vespoli single and proceeded to win my first race in Albany where Burt Aphelbaum  saw me and asked me to join his guys (PVRA) rowing out of Trinity college’s boathouse.

How did you end up at Riverside?
1995 was the year.  I met Wendy Harland hiking with friends.  She was a member of the summer lightweight program and she introduced me to Jamie Ames.  And that is how I started rowing again after a four year break.

Rob with his family at his boat dedication.

You were President of the club from 2005 to 2007, tell us about a major project or projects you facilitated? 
I was Captain of the club in 1998. It was the year the master’s sweep programs came to life in a big way. The challenge was equipment and managing expectations, all the typical stuff with a group of eager new members that want to be on the water as much as possible during core hours.  AND then the ramp collapsed!  We replaced all the ramps with the current ones.  It was all about keeping my head above water.  At the time I only had email at work, and the emails were coming in at such a breakneck pace, that I was forced to have our IT guy put a filter in to turn emails back.  At the end of the year I decided to run for Trustee and was elected.  With the shellacking I took as Captain, I realized the best thing I could do as Trustee was to help the Captain get off to a good year.  I worked with Cheri Ruane, the new captain, to make her life easier by initiating a captain’s committee and assistants to help with scheduling.  My three year term didn’t even make it to a year when I decided to take a two year ex-pat assignment in Germany with Bosch.  I took off in the fall and brought my boat with me. I had two great years of rowing in Strasbourg, France.

When I returned from Germany it was late fall and elections were coming up.  Savas asked me to run for VP and I did.  I wasn’t elected, but on the spot I was nominated and elected for Trustee.  It was an interesting first year as Trustee.  My first main task was to have an open forum to discuss teaming up with either Simmons or G-ROW to improve the boathouse.  It went down like a ton of bricks; we’ve come a long ways since then!  After that I worked with Caro on the bathroom reconstruction, the sweep bay rubber roof and skylights, the heating system, the exterior lighting, repair of the rubber roof over the porch, managed the rigger, and many excel spreadsheets about building expenses, program costs…

Then I was asked to be President.  I thought Patricia was crazy, but between Sarah and Patricia they persuaded me to do it.  I’m certainly not the most charismatic leader, but I got into the nuts and bolts of running Riverside with the goal of getting the financial picture squared away such that RBC could entertain teaming up with another organization to improve the club.  Additionally with Sarah running the membership, we were focused on staying connected with supporting members, alumni, Simmons, Brookline and other clubs on the river with the goal of creating a larger RBC community than those of us that row regularly.  We also made some of the first bylaw changes since they were originally written. We added a presidents committee to the club that had grown by nearly 100 members since I had joined; it was becoming less manageable.  I can’t deny that there were a number of frustrating moments while on the board, but I’m glad I did it.

Tell us about a memorable racing experience.
My first speed order down at Princeton was an 8k Saturday evening.  I was 4th overall and the fastest lightweight with the previous year’s single sculler behind me.  The next morning we did 2ks. I won the lightweight men’s single by 2 open lengths. At this point I had only been sculling a year.  It ended several months after that with a herniated disk in my lower back.

You and Kevin are pretty quick in the double, any future athletic endeavors on the horizon?
Kevin is great to row with.  He makes me row so much better than when I am by myself.  Sarah doesn’t know this, but I’ve been contemplating cycling again.

What are you reading/watching right now?
Downton Abby – this is Sarah’s evening soap opera.

Tell us something we do not know about you.
I like to cook everything!  Dishes I crave are a northern Italian lasagna made with a ragu, béchamel sauce and homemade pasta.  I love to make fruit crisps, custards and English trifle.  When there is time I also like to make bread.

One additional fact, I stood 8 feet away from a 500lb grizzly bear in Alaska, we surprised each other and I didn’t make my underwear untidy!

Crusher Casey History

Among Riverside Boat Club’s best oarsmen during the late 1930s and early 40s and certainly its most colorful were three brothers from Sneen, County Kerry, Ireland, Steve, Jim and Tom Casey. In keeping with rowing’s long association with pugilism, Steve, Tom and two other brothers had been successful professional boxers and wrestlers in Ireland, but the seven siblings’ first love was rowing.  They raced victoriously in the 1930’s and it is said that five of them would have competed for Ireland in the 1936 Olympics had they not been disqualified for taking prize fight money.

In 1938, Steve “Crusher” Casey, recently arrived in Boston with Tom and Jim, won the world heavyweight wrestling championship at the Garden, a title he would hold until 1947.  Looking for a place to row, the three gravitated to Riverside, the Boston club with an Irish as well as a boxing pedigree, where they were soon known as “the famous Caseys.”  In 1940, they issued a challenge through the Boston Globe to any four in the country to race them on the Charles.  They were to be joined by another brother once it was accepted.  After watching the Caseys train, however, no one responded until Union Boat Club’s Russell Codman, Jr., a silver medalist sculler in a recent national championships but now 45 years of age, agreed to a singles race.  The Boston Globe sponsored the event, offering $1,000 in prize money.

Former Harvard oar Governor Leverett Saltonstall put up a cup for the winner.  The principals raised $2,000 in stakes.  Arranged for November 10, the race attracted an enormous crowd, reported to have included young Jack Kennedy.  Tom Casey, age 25 and famed for his blistering cadence, finished first, Jim was second, Steve third and Codman fourth.  Tom is said to have gone on to win every race he entered.  As for Crusher, it is testimony to his popularity on both sides of the Atlantic that his statue stands today in Sneen, while in this country his bars, Casey’s in Boston and Casey’s Too in Hull, were favorite watering holes for locals, Irish immigrants and rowers alike.

RBC 2012 Awards

Every year the board recognizes members who have gone above and beyond for the club. This past year, 2012, proved to be no less than extraordinary. Some of those recognized have dedicated several hours over a number of years while others are recognized for work done within this past year.

President’s Award

Development Committee: Dick Gaver, Lisa Kunze, Lynn Osborn, and Severine Imbert de Smirnoff

RBC President, Igor Belakovskyi recognized Dick, Lisa, Lynn and Severine for their tireless effort towards Riverside’s development and fundraising effort. Stepping in as Riverside’s Development Coordinator, Lynn Osborn combined efforts with Dick and Lisa to develop a mission statement for Riverside to guide the membership:

Riverside Boat Club strives to support the attainment of its members’ rowing goals, from recreation to the highest level of international competition, and to promote the art and enjoyment of rowing, by providing safe facilities, quality rowing equipment, and coaching in a friendly, collaborative, social community.

Since then they have taken on countless other tasks ranging from populating the Riverside sub-committees to having facilities drawings produced as RBC looks to the future.

Severine joined the Development Committee to chair the Fundraising Committee. In her first year, with help from countless other members, she helped organized three important events (100th Anniversary Celebration, 9/15 Olympic evening – silent auction, and a stewardship cocktail evening) that has lead to raising $236,721 in 2012.

Service Awards

Mary O’Neill
Mary had dedicated countless hours and years of service previously leading the Building and Grounds Committee. She had to deal with a range boathouse issues from broken urinals, to a broken boiler to managing the energy efficiency of fans in the boathouse. Essentially, she’s helped keep Riverside running! In general Mary helps Riverside be mindful of important concerns and membership contribution while always keeping Riverside’s best interest at heart.
 
Katy Ruderman
At times, Katy is a Riverside more than HPG rowers. 2012 marked her first year as co-chair for Cromwell Cup – by no means a small task. She is also a big reason why the Juniors have been well received in the infancy of the program. Whenever a volunteer task is up for grabs, Katy is the first to email a response to help get the Juniors involved with the task at hand.

Lib Diamond
Lib’s countless years of support for Riverside through her role as Director of Operations at Head of the Charles is no small feat and has been a great asset to Riverside (—as well as a great resource to find out what spot you’re at on the waitlist  for HOCR!). Well over a year ago Lib helped establish a policy for trailer cleanup to help clarify what teams need to take care of post-regatta. More recently she has helped lead the effort to outline a damage policy for the board to reference when equipment is damaged. Also in 2012, Lib lead the effort to formalize the General Membership meeting set-up. Riverside will greatly miss Lib when she moves to Denver in March.

Todd Milne
At the end of 2012, Riverside transitioned it’s communications to GroupSpaces and now has an online Membership Directory. This miraculous feat could not have been done without the hours upon hours Todd put into researching platforms, setting it up, testing it and eventually implementing the change. His role on the Membership Committee has been incredibly valuable and boathouse communications are constantly improving with his guidance and continually maintenance of the the directory.

Rookie of the Year

• Kelly Woodacre

• Antonia Villa

Both Kelly and Antonia stepped up to lend a hand with various volunteer activities. They volunteered so often it was impossible not to have met them along the way – Riverside is lucky to gain members like them!

Team/Committee

9/15 event, An Olympic Evening Committee: Amanda Milad, Antonia Villa, Ed Frankenberry, Katie Ward, Katy Ruderman, Kelsea Gusk, Laurissa Gulich, Mike Farry, Severine Imbert de Smirnoff, Stephanie Bakkum

This exceptional group of volunteers helped organize the first annual silent auction for Riverside. The event was held at Cambridge Boat Club and everything from caters to silent auction prizes was arranged and managed by this group. A total of 75 tickets were sold and the total income was $11,185 for a net total of $6,052.

Mileage

(most miles from Dec 1, 2011 – Dec 1, 2012)

• Ilana Zieff (female)

• Jake Georgeson (male)

Fob Award

(most used boathouse fob)

• Laurissa Gulich (female)

• Tom Keister  (male)

Bridge Award

Women’s Sweep

Concept 2 Virtual Team Challenge

RBC was 2nd place among “non-virtual” clubs behind CRI with 33 million meters from 453 rowers and HAVK Mladost (Croatia) with 23 million meters from 209 rowers. Jake Georgeson and Dorian Weber led team RBC with >730k meters each followed by Cornelia Willis and Sean Wolf >600k meters. Nikolay Kurmakov roared back from an early January vacation to finish in 5th place and was followed closely by Sarah Schwegman, both had >540k. Honorable mention to Sally Ruderman who crushed the U20 field, as well as the rest of us, with 483k. Check out the Concept 2 website for all of the details.

Well done RBC!

Riverside finished in 5th place overall in this worldwide competition of 325 teams. Pictured above: Lucas G.

New members: November 2012

Like our beloved chief Secretary Kit Casey, Dan Polasky hails from Minnesota. He’s currently a research technician in a lab at the Tufts Medical Center doing biochemistry/analytical chemistry/stuff. Dan began rowing at Bowdoin College, the more studious cousin of Bates and Colby, and his favorite rowing moment is placing 4th (medaling!) in the Collegiate Four at the 2011 HOCR. Dan also competed on the Bowdoin Nordic team. He’ll be racing the Birkie this February with several other RBC athletes who have slightly less skill but enough pride to hopefully complete all those k’s (call us for lessons, please?).

Jon Kraus, friend to (or of) the McAuliffe Gig, comes to Riverside after taking time off from URI during a collegiate bout of mono. Jon’s hometown is Milton, MA but he is originally from South Boston. Pending recovery from both the gig and the mono (and the fall catch-up course-load), he’ll return to the program at URI. Jon’s favorite rowing moment was having the opportunity to stroke a 4+ at ACRA’s on the Olympic Course at Lake Lanier.

Don’t look this kid in the eye. Hannah Jeton is an Andover native who joins RBC after rowing at Dartmouth College. She is an Architecture Project Coordinator and Assistant at TROJB. She is an RBC rookie (Caro, sign her up for something), a sweep rower, and can hold one eye crossed. We can only hope that the Dartmouth tradition at RBC is carried on with her membership.

Suthesh Sivapalaratnam is a Post Research Fellow (MD PhD) originally from Amsterdam. He began rowing in 2001 and continues to prefer sweep rowing (of the big boat variety). Last year, he watched what was likely the most controversial Boat Race ever rowed. He is eager to get involved at RBC and is an avid cyclist and runner when not enjoying the bends of the Charles.

Jordan Sullivan is a Mainer, South Berwick to be exact. He’s been living in Cambridge since 2008 and only recently heeded the siren of the stripes. Jordan rowed all four years at Davidson College and his only experience in a single found him in the water. He now does genetic analysis at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. As luck would have it, Jordan’s favorite rowing moment is also having the opportunity to compete on Lake Lanier. Jordan used to work at a brewery so hopefully he’ll consider joining the ranks of the van Lennep Social Committee.

Katie Melvin is a Florence, Alabama native now working at Composite Engineering. She rowed at Georgia Tech from 2007 – 2011 and her favorite rowing moment is battling it out on the Schuylkill at Dad Vails in 2010 for a silver medal and taking second with just .016 over the third place boat. She’s a sweep rower eager to get involved at RBC and to cite her next best (or next-best) rowing moment on the Charles. She has lived in four cities in 18 months, so let’s encourage her to stay and row for a while.

Jamie Nicole Heinzen is a Neurologist originally from San Clemente, CA. She rowed for 2 years at Oxford, 1 year at Cambridge, and 1 – 2 years at MBRA in San Diego. Her favorite rowing moment is paddling out on the Isis River in Oxford at sunrise with the swans swimming around the boats and the steam rising off the water. I’m sure the geese and sweet sweet scent of bacon near the Hyatt will replace that soon enough. Jamie is a starboard and met her husband, fellow RBC member Evan Labuzetta, in the middle of a “Bumps” race (British collegiate rowing competition) in England. FYI, captains don’t approve of bumping in club equipment so please keep it clean. Welcome to RBC everyone!

Kansas meets Syracuse

Jeff and Lisa

How did it all start?
Lisa: I started rowing as an undergraduate at the University of Kansas in 1978. I signed up for rowing because 2 tall, gorgeous men were recruiting during enrollment. The club had no funding and little equipment. The men and women shared a Pocock 8+ from 1936 that was covered with fiberglass and weighed about 400 lbs. The coach was a former coxswain, so he coached from a small boat tethered to the 8+. Later, I bought a Vespoli 1x in 1985 and since I learned how to scull by watching videos of German scullers, I carried my hands right over left for several months. I often had to race against men as there were few women scullers in the Midwest. Despite the dearth of sculling in the Midwest in the 1980s, I was coached briefly by the Canadian rower, Theodore Dubois, and by Miriam Baer from the Minnesota Boat Club.

Jeff: I started rowing in the 9th grade at Poughkeepsie High School in upstate New York. I had been swimming, racing row boats, and mountain climbing since I could walk, so it seemed like a good sport for me. I had been playing the baritone horn in the marching band, but couldn’t do both band and rowing. I think the band director was relieved. I had a scholarship to Syracuse in rowing. I funded my post-collegiate rowing by coaching. I coached at St. Anthony’s High school on Long Island, the Merchant Marine academy at King’s Point, Northeastern University, and MIT as well as a few other places. I also started the rowing program in Albany, NY where Austin Meyer (who finished 4th in the under 23 2x at the world championships this year) learned to row.

Memories…
Lisa: Memorable experiences, both bad and good, make us better. Only 4 months after teaching myself how to scull I entered Women’s nationals in Corning, NY. I drove 22 hours with my old boyfriend in a VW rabbit. The water pump blew out on the way, a tornado wiped out the motel where I planned to stay, and then I raced Ann Marden in my first heat. Many of my fondest memories of rowing at RBC were of training with the sculling group every morning in the 1990s with coaches Jeanne Flannagan (Olympic 8+ silver medalist in 1984) and Iskra Balcheva (Bulgarian Olympian). There was the ever present smell of chocolate Necco wafers in the basin. One year I drove to the Canadian Henley with Jim Hanley and Jamie Ames. Hanley kept rolling up the window when Jamie was trying to spit cherry pits outside. Two of my best memories are rowing with Jeff in a double at the Foot of the Charles on the morning of our wedding and in June of 2009 after his heart surgery. Winning the HOCR in the master’s women’s 1x after starting dead last was rather fun, too. I have started last 3 times.

Jeff: My most memorable experiences of rowing are of racing. I won the San Diego Crew Classic with Andy O’Brien in my boat twice. I raced with John Condon (former RBC president) many times. Rowing with John is always a memorable experience. He had a lot of enthusiasm. Winning 3 gold medals in a row while not getting off the water at the Master World’s in Belgium was really a highlight. I won the 2x, 4-, and 8+. Lisa also reminded me that I met her at the RBC HOCR party after winning the Master’s 8+ at the HOCR. That was definitely a memorable rowing experience.

Coming to Riverside…
Lisa: I rowed with a women’s 4x in 1988 at RBC, but I officially joined RBC in 1989. A couple of other friends from Kansas had joined RBC a year before me and told me that it was a really great club with nice boats, fast rowers, good coaches, and indoor plumbing. I had raced at Canadian Henley a couple of times prior to moving to Boston and many of the winners were wearing the blue and white stripes that I figured it would be a good place for me to learn how to row fast. Since I had to sell my boat when I moved here, Jim Hanley let me use his boat for racing. I am forever in his debt. Folks on the board discovered that I could repair boats and rig, so I worked part time as the rigger.

Jeff: I joined RBC in 1999. I had been coaching several people at MIT including President Igor Belakovskiy. They had joined RBC and I wanted to continue training with fast people so I joined as well. I was working at Gentle Giant and RBC was a good bargain. I could also keep my boat on the lawn. I drove the trailer for a few years for RBC to help with the rowing expenses.

Seriously, Kastle Kunze?
Lisa: I was leaving Boston to start my residency in orthopedic surgery at University of Michigan in 1997. Teddy Littlefield was still the groundskeeper at RBC and although he liked to paint, his efforts often resemble a Jackson Pollock painting. The B&G people would hide the brushes and paint, but he would just buy more. One day I caught him entering the women’s locker room with paint in hand. I stopped him and told him that I was planning on painting the locker room before going to Michigan. I really didn’t want to do that, but I ended up painting the entire locker room and repairing several lockers. In honor and in jest of my deeds, Marianne Ganzer painted the “Kastle Kunze” sign and put it over the locker room. That’s it.

Current Riverside Project…
Lisa: I am working on the Development Committee, and my primary focus is on program development. It is a long term effort, but this year I have spoken with many RBC members and coaches about how to create good programs. My goal is to initiate changes that will improve our programs and make them financially sound. This will take time and money. Some improvements in the program structure, function, and equipment can be made over the next year, but overall, this is a 5-10 year project. I am so appreciative of the people who have helped me up to this point. If you have ideas about how to make programs run better, I would like to hear about them!

It seems like you and Jeff are always on the go no matter the season. Let’s play a game. I’ll give you a date and weather conditions and you tell me where I can find you.

February, 20 degrees, snow, wind: 5 mph
Lisa/Jeff: Biathlon experience at Soldier Hollow. Lisa scores 14/15 and Jeff 8/15. Neither of us can ski for beans, but we had a blast. Later that day we headed to the Olympic venue in Park City and did the bobsled and zip-lined along the ski jumps. Weeeee.

March, 18 degrees, snowing, wind: 30 mph
Lisa/Jeff: Lifting weights at the Murr Center at Harvard and running into the awesome Sarah Schwegman who is also pumping some iron and demonstrating her exceptional balance. (Note: There may have been some bribery associated with this response.)

June, 72 degrees, partly cloudy, wind: 8 mph
Lisa/Jeff: There is no better day to do 2 minute pieces. We welcome others to share our pain.

August, 91 degrees, clear and sunny, 72 degrees, wind: 2 mph
Lisa/Jeff: Paddleboarding at Marblehead! Lobstas for dinner.

October, 48 degrees, cloudy, wind: 12 mph
Lisa/Jeff: Rowing in the HOCR and cheering others on from the dock.
Lisa: I volunteer with the first aid team for the HOCR.
Jeff: I roam the crowds to talk with the some of the hundreds of rowing people from my past.
Lisa: After the races are over we head to the kickin’ RBC party. We first met at one of the parties so it’s one of our anniversaries.

Results: 2012 Head of the Charles

Event # | Event Bow # |  Stroke finished | time

1 Men’s Grand Master Singles [50+] 10 J. Tracey 10 / 19:58.30
2 Women’s Grand Master Singles [50+] 27 L. Kunze 9 / 22:10.524
3 Men’s Senior Master Singles [40+] 1 J. McGaffigan 5 / 18:48.885
3 Men’s Senior Master Singles [40+] 2 S. Wolf 2 / 22:10.524
3 Men’s Senior Master Singles [40+] 27 J. Bers 29 / 21:24.974
4 Women’s Senior Masters Singles [40+] 2 T. Vandersteel 1 / 20:36.039
7 Men’s Senior Master Fours [50+] 3 E. Frankenberry 2 / 17:58.985
7 Men’s Senior Master Fours [50+] 15 S. Danberg 20 / 19:50.059
10 Women’s Senior Master Doubles [50+] 16 L. Osborn 4 / 20:20.172
13 Men’s Club Singles 27 N. Kuronen 33 / 20:23.809
13 Men’s Club Singles 52 A. Neils 6 / 19:10.049
14 Womens Club Singles 1 A. Booth 16 / 22:05.210
14 Womens Club Singles 14 K. Woodacre 1 / 20:56.319
14 Womens Club Singles 16 C. Mance 26 / 22:34.027
14 Womens Club Singles 23 H. Walters 35 / 23:45.883
14 Womens Club Singles 38 K. Casey 27 / 22:54.382
15 Men’s Club Fours 13 J. Mercuri 3 / 17:07.266
18 Women’s Club Eights 21 H. Jeton 4 / 17:27.306
19 Men’s Master Doubles [40+] 3 K. McDonnell 3 / 17:46.124
23 Men’s Master Eights [40+] 9 G. Milne 9 / 16:04.904
25 Men’s Championship Doubles 18 C. Dyke 12 / 18:13.125
26 Women’s Championship Doubles 1 C. Reddick 5 / 19:11.672
26 Women’s Championship Doubles 8 M. Page 4 / 18:57.787
26 Women’s Championship Doubles 12 M. Foster 8 / 19:32.236
30 Women’s Championship Singles 6 E. Huelskamp 12 / 21:08.689
30 Women’s Championship Singles 9 L. Schmetterling 6 / 20:05.564
33 Men’s Senior Veteran Singles I and II [70+] 25 N. Daniloff 21/25:05.22
33 Men’s Senior Veteran Singles I and II [70+] 31 J. Peters 35/30:31.96
35 Men’s Veteran Singles I and II [60+] 22 J. Hanley 32/23:12.22
35 Men’s Veteran Singles I and II [60+] 26 P. Dale 18/21:57.21
36 Men’s Youth Fours 48 A. Rintell 17/17:54.65
37 Women’s Youth Fours 72 A. Bell 43/21:06.49
38 Men’s Master Singles 1 P. Morelli 2/19:20.91
38 Men’s Master Singles 6 I. Belakovskiy 11/20:06.37
39 Women’s Master Singles 4 S. White 5/22:10.12
39 Women’s Master Singles 8 E. Diamond 9/22:31.82
39 Women’s Master Singles 10 M. O’Neill 11/23:17.39
42 Men’s Lightweight Singles 10 M. Farry 14/19:56.14
43 Women’s Lightweight Singles 2 A. Sneff 4/21:41.82
43 Women’s Lightweight Singles 20 I. Zieff 15/23:17.59
43 Women’s Lightweight Singles 22 L. Gulich 9/22:15.62
DCM4x Directors’ Challenge Men’s Quads 1 Then There Were Four 1/16:08.781
DCM4x Directors’ Challenge Men’s Quads 17 Akamai 30/20:32.052
DCM4x Directors’ Challenge Men’s Quads 28 P. Smith 18/17:58.921
46 Men’s Championship Fours 18 K. Evans 14/17:56.223
47 Women’s Championship Fours 12 E. van Lennep 14/20:48.902

DCMX4x Directors’ Challenge Mixed Quads 7 Chevrons & Stripes 2/17:57.842