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| Chris Maietta |
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Biographical Note:
Founder of several rowing programs including Wayland-Weston.
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| Maggie Klarberg Kennedy |
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College rowing: U. Penn
Biographical Note:
TBD
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| Tom Boyle |
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College rowing: Brown
Biographical Note:
After rowing for Mr Brown at PA I ended up rowing first heavyweights at Brown in ’76 & ’77, including the Eastern Sprints and IRA’s
each year. Our effort at the Head in ’77 was handicapped by our breaking a rigger in the first 1 mile – so only 7 rowing the last 2 miles
but we managed to finish ahead of three other entries. I chose not to row my senior year at Brown. My rowing thereafter has been spotty.
I now row occasionally on weekends at Saugatuck Rowing Club in Westport, CT in a single – still in reasonably good shape - although 3 miles
seems a long haul!
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| Foster "Forty" Conklin |
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College rowing: BU
Biographical Note:
I share the great pleasure of learning to row on the same lake as Vincent Broderick. I attended Camp Mowglis on Newfound Lake and rowed for the Blue
Crew 1969 to 1974. We rowed in a six man boat with the oarlock mounted on the gunwale without sliding seats. I rowed at Andover 1975 to 1979 with
Mr. Brown. I started in the bow of the Junior boat and finished as varsity stroke. I rowed eight terms. I stopped freshman year at Boston University.
I have rowed sporadically in my basement for the past decade. Last rowed in the Head of the Charles in 1978. Last rowed on the Merrimack during the
monsoon of 2006. Hope this project is beginning of something big.
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| Dave Lippold |
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College rowing: Yale
Biographical Note:
As far as ancient history goes, I rowed at PA for Mr. Brown from 1970-1974. At Yale, I rowed for 4 years on the Lightweight squad, when most
boats and oars were wooden. In total, I rowed the Head of the Charles 8 times, but never learned the course. I bought a Concept 2 (again
wooden handle and stretcher) and have been a dry land rower ever since. I did the CRASH-B's last year and did not tip over. So, in summary
I think I will finish this race and will not cause the boat to sink.
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| John Pawlowski |
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College rowing: Yale
Biographical Note:
After graduating from Andover in 1974, I was a member of Cornell’s heavyweight freshman team and then transitioned to the varsity lightweight
team for my remaining three years at Cornell. While on the lightweight team, I alternated rowing between the JV and 3V boats. To this day
I still question my sanity for become a “lightweight” as I did not enjoy losing the 10 pounds every week I would gain after each weigh-in
for next week’s race.
I then moved to the Washington, D.C. area and joined the Potomac Boat Club. I raced competitively for several years after which time with the
arrival of children I became an inactive member. Within the past five years I reactivated my Potomac membership and became more serious about
rowing when my daughter started rowing for her high school. The last time I rowed on the water on a daily basis was three years ago. As an
alternative, I purchased an erg (which has the fishing game on it which I still do not know how to use) and like John, have participated in the
Crash B sprints over the past several years. In lieu of rowing on the water, I decided to follow rowing regattas by becoming a referee
(does not require as much effort as actually rowing) and rowing on land.
The last time I was at the HOC was two years ago when I watched my daughter row while it was snowing.
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| Carl Taeusch |
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College rowing: Princeton
Biographical Note:
After rowing upper and senior years in the 3b and occasionally JV at Andover, and two years of freshman and varsity lightweight at
Princeton, I didn't row on water again until 2003, when I joined the Mitsubishi Boat Club at Lake Toda (near Tokyo), Japan. The first couple
of years with MBC was mainly casual rowing, but in 2005, I began rowing more competitively in an F8 (average age 60), 1000 m races mostly in
the Tokyo area. Until then it was all sweep rowing. In 2006, I rowed with a friend at the World Masters Regatta at Princeton in a 2X. More
1000 meter races, and an occasional 3K and 7K race in the F8 for the next year through spring, 2008. In 2008, I returned to New York and
joined the New York Rowing Association on the Harlem River, which is 95% sculling - 4X and 2X; no 8s, no coxes; most rowers age 27 through
45, with a few in their late 50s, one 62, and me. That's where I am now, keeping in relatively good shape for a 66 year-old, but mostly
sculling. No experience in a head race, except the much less complicated 3Ks and 7Ks on the Tsurumi River in Yokohama, Japan.
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| Randy Tagg |
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College rowing: Cal Tech
Biographical Note:
I actually first rowed sweep on the Thames when I attended a school in London when I was 12-14 years old. Then, after rowing at Andover 1971-1973, I went to
college at Caltech and found few opportunities to row in southern California, so instead contemplated (but never built) a land-based rowing vehicle with the
aim of rowing across the country. In the meantime I consoled myself with karate, which I continued when moving back east for grad school at MIT. While at
MIT, I shared an apartment with Chris Maietta for several years. I managed to get out on the Charles a couple of times in a double during that period.
Then, while I was a postdoc at the University of Texas Austin, my wife and I obtained our own double - thanks to wedding gifts from our family and the
help of my brother-in-law Peter Huntsman, who rowed at Mt. Herman and Harvard, coached women's crew, and will also be in the Head of the Charles on a
Harvard alumni boat this year. I rowed in the Head of the Colorado in Austin in 1989. Austin is an absolutely beautiful place to row! In this time, we
also did make a human-powered cross country trek from Maine to Oregon, but on bicylce rather than rowing machine. I have lived in the foothills outside
Denver since 1990, where I am on the physics faculty at the University of Colorado Denver. Amongst my research projects, which involves many undergrads
and now also high school students, is the application of chaos theory to the prediction of boat motion...work funded the Office of Naval Research. I aspire
to building the Rocky Mountain Naval Testing Basin, perhaps in the new high school research lab I am setting up. Our double was on loan to the Rocky Mountain
Rowing Club most of these years without our using it. In the meantime, we found a new liking for mountain lake kayaking. Lately I have succeeded in losing
45 pounds of weight over the summer, just in time to receive the invitation to be on the Andover alumni crew. With training, I hope to knock off another 10
pounds. It will be great to be back on the Charles in a month: I hope to earn the right in this regatta to eat a hearty Thanksgiving meal a month later with
my stepdaughter Maggie and her husband Gabe in Morro Bay, California.
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| Hunter Washburn |
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College rowing: Navy
Biographical Note:
I'm very much looking forward to rowing with everyone at the Charles. I rowed all 4 years at Andover and graduated in 2000. From there I
headed south to row for the Navy lightweights, graduating in 2004. Upon commissioning I was stationed on a destroyer for 3.5 years then I
went back to the Naval Academy and worked in the PE department and coached the 3V and the freshman. I received my MBA out in Monterey, CA
and now am in the training pipeline to go back to sea.
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| Vincent Broderick |
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College rowing: Wesleyan
Biographical Note:
I was first drawn to the camp I now run in 1967 because of its rowing program. When I got to Andover that fall, I was delighted that rowing
was available, and I abandoned my football plans. In 1971 with many good memories of rowing under Bill Brown. I moved to coaching during the
summer. I rowed the next four years at Wesleyan and coached the freshmen men at Williams the year after graduation. St. Christopher’s School
in Richmond, VA, where I taught until 1986 had no program. In 1987, however, I moved back north to Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, MA,
and coached there until 1996. In 1997, I was hired as Director of Camp Pasquaney in Hebron, NH, and I have done about ten years of coaching
at Derryfield School in Manchester in the Fall and Spring, back on the Merrimack in Hooksett, NH. I missed much of Mr. Brown’s celebration
a few years back because I was running a regatta in the downpour some of you experienced that day. I get out on our lake for occasional
rows in the fall. The water leaves our lake and ultimately reaches the Merrimack, a much different color from its color up here, but
much cleaner than it was when we rowed on it back in the early 70s.
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| Sarah Sherman |
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College rowing: Princeton
Biographical Note:
I was a coxswain for Pete Washburn on B1 at PA from 2000-2004. After that, I coxed the freshman and varsity lightweight men at Princeton
until 2008. Since then, I've been coxing recreationally in Los Angeles, since there's not much more than recreational rowing here! I've
raced HOCR about 7 or 8 times, the last of which was in 2008. Can't wait to go back!
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