The Founder and Director of the American Athletic Institute, Mr. John Underwood,
will present "Community Strategies to Prevent Drug Use and Underage Drinking" on
Monday, November 2 at 7 p.m. in the F-M High School Auditorium.

A former international-level distance runner and World Class Masters Champion,
Mr. Underwood holds three international Olympic Solidarity diplomas for coaching
and has been a crusader for drug-free sport at all levels. He is also the Master
Trainer for the New York Public High School Athletic Association drug prevention
program.

Mr. Underwood's presentation will focus on the negative effect drug and alcohol
use has on all aspects of a young student`s life including social, personal,
psychological, educational and legal.

The evening is hosted by F-M High School Character Education Program and F-M
Safe, Smart and Sober. The event is open to the public.

Thank you to the Crew parents who worked with us at the FM football game Friday
night, either in the snack shack or selling tickets: Jim and Kris King, Rosemary
O'Leary, Jim Opgenorth, Kathy Mowins, Marty Coles, Suzanne Meyers, Brian and
Wendy Lee, and Kim Ritchie. We had a great time helping the Sports Boosters,
showing them we appreciate all the support they give to FM Crew. -- David and
Susan Geary

----- Original Message -----

From: kathleen mowins

To: FMHS_Crew@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:21 AM

Subject: Re: [FMHS_Crew] A Final Plea for Help

 

Sue if no one has come forward, I will be happy to help you out.  I have never done it before, but I am always up for a new adventure.  Kathy Mowins --- On Tue, 9/22/09, susan.geary <sugeary@twcny.rr.com> wrote: From: susan.geary <sugeary@twcny.rr.com> Subject: [FMHS_Crew] A Final Plea for Help To: FMHS_Crew@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 11:51 AM   If you are a crew parent planning to attend Friday night's FM home football game (9/25), please consider working in the snack shack for the Sports Booster Club. We, as Crewsters, are obliged to provide volunteers for only one football game, and this is it! Volunteers work from about 6-9 p.m. We only need a couple more people to fulfill our obligation. Respond to this email or call Susan Geary, 682-5140.

If you are a crew parent planning to attend Friday night's FM home football game
(9/25), please consider working in the snack shack for the Sports Booster Club.
We, as Crewsters, are obliged to provide volunteers for only one football game,
and this is it! Volunteers work from about 6-9 p.m. We only need a couple more
people to fulfill our obligation. Respond to this email or call Susan Geary,
682-5140.

I can help set up or clean up. I will be at the game, but Brennan plays football
and it is Senior Night. Let me know.
Karen McDonough

Hello again everyone! Still looking for help this Friday night, Sept. 25. FM
Sports Boosters have asked Crewsters to help at just one football game, selling
tickets and working snack shack.
THE DETAILS: All volunteers should arrive between 5:45-6 p.m. Those working
ticket sales stay at the gates until half-time. Those working the snack shack
stay until the game is over, unless relieved by a ticket sales person.
Please respond to this email, or contact Susan Geary 682-5140. Thanks!

Our good friends from the FM Sports Booster Club have asked the Crewsters to
help man ticket sales and the snack shack at next weekend's (Friday, Sept. 25)
home football game.
This will be the only football game the Crewsters will work, so if any parents
out there want to help, please respond to this email or contact Susan Geary
(682-5140) asap.
THE DETAILS: All volunteers should arrive between 5:45 and 6 p.m. Those working
ticket sales stay at the gates until half-time. Ticket sellers may then leave,
watch the game or help in the snack shack, if needed. Those working the snack
shack should probably plan to stay until the end of the game, unless relieved by
a ticket sales person.

The Crewsters would like to thank the parents that have elected to
contribute to our club through the United Way Donor Choice option
program.

For those parents who don't know about or haven't participated in the
Donor Choice option, it is a great way to augment the Crewsters
fundraising efforts. United Way of Central New York provides funding
to hundreds of not-for-profit human service organizations in our
communities and now the FM-Crewsters is one of them.

Participating is easy. If you work for a company in the area that
distributes pledge cards and wish to allocate all or a portion of
your annual contribution, simply look for the Donor Choice section on
the pledge card. Enter FM-Crewsters as the organization, the amount
you wish to allocate, and our address, which is P.O. Box 351,
Manlius, NY 13104. Return the completed card to your United Way
Coordinator. It's that simple.

Please consider participating in the United Way and allocating a
portion of your pledge to help maintain our program. Pass the
word. Donations can also come from family and friends.

Thank you for you support,
Mike Coles

Crewsters:
As of today our total tickets sales if ZERO.

Last day to purchase is September 17.

To remain qualified to sell tickets next year we have to sell a minimum of 40
tickets this year.

If anyone is still interested, please let me know.
Mike

REMINDER:  The Turning Stone Champianship Tickets will be on sale at the Manlius
Breuggers this Saturday between 8-10am.

Thanks to the Ritchies for manning the ticket table last Saturday.  I also want
to thank Pat Mahardy and Brian and Hanna Lee for selling on July 18th.

Anyone interested in helping out on a given Saturday, please let me know.  We
will be selling up to September 17th.

Thanks,
Mike

Anyone interested in selling tickets Saturday?  I will buy the coffee!
Let me know by tomorrow; I will be leaving town on Friday.

Thanks,
Mike

--- In FMHS_Crew@yahoogroups.com, "mcoles1959" <mcoles1959@...> wrote:
>
> CREWSTERS,
> I will be out of town on Saturday 8/1 and need a volunteer to sell tickets @
Brueggers from 8-10am.  If anyone is interested, please let me know before
Thursday and I can make arrangements to get the ticket sale forms to you.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>

----- Original Message -----

From: Wendy Lee

To: FMHS_Crew@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:46 AM

Subject: [FMHS_Crew] row, ride, race

 

DEAR ALL, 

HOPE EVERONE IS HAVING A GREAT SUMMER. 

AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, REBECCA IS PARTICIPATING IN THE

ROW, RIDE, RACE PROGRAM IN SARATOGA THIS SUMMER.  AFTER

FOUR WEEKS OF ROWING AND RIDING 20+ GIRLS AND COACHES

ARE STARTING THEIR “TOUR DE HENLEY” ACROSS NYS, DESTINATION

ST. CATHERINE’S TO COMPETE IN THE CANADIAN HENLEY REGATTA!!

TOMORROW (THURS.) THE GROUP WILL BE BIKING THRU BALDWINSVILLE BETWEEN

2-3PM.  IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN CHEERING THEM ON AS THEY BIKE THRU

TOWN, WE WILL BE MEETING ON THE LAWN IN FRONT OF THE BUDWEISER

BREWERY ON ROUTE 31 IN BALDWINSVILLE IF YOU’D LIKE TO JOIN US.

CHECK THURS. EMAIL FOR MORE SPECIFIC TIME AS WEATHER, FLAT TIRES ETC.

MAY CHANGE THE TIME SLIGHTLY.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

WENDY LEE

CREWSTERS,
I will be out of town on Saturday 8/1 and need a volunteer to sell tickets @
Brueggers from 8-10am.  If anyone is interested, please let me know before
Thursday and I can make arrangements to get the ticket sale forms to you.

Thanks,
Mike

----- Original Message -----

From: mcoles1959

To: FMHS_Crew@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:24 PM

Subject: [FMHS_Crew] Ticket Sale Reminder

 

I will be at the Manlius Brueggers for 8-10am on Saturday July 25 selling tickets.

I am also looking for someone to sell tickets on the following Saturdays, August 1 and August 8.

I just found out that we need to sell a minimum of 40 tickets to qualify for next year's program. Qualifying will allow us to put together a plan before the ticket sale program begins.

Thanks, Mike

All,

Here is a great article on rowing sent to me from Larry Laszlo (Liverpool coach
and US Rowing referee). For all you rowing enthusiasts, I believe you will find
this interesting.

I hope your summers are going well!
 
-Bob Garofalo
Girls Varsity Coach - FM



----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Larry Laszlo <Larry_Laszlo@...>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 9:43:32 AM
Subject: NY Times article

Forever Rowing Upstream 

Unbeknownst to even the most rabid sports fans, one of America’s oldest
and most storied athletic disciplines is pursued daily on a nearby river,
lake or bay. Thousands of people power racing shells, narrow boats 26 feet
to 60 feet long (depending on the number of rowers, from one to eight).
Some row slowly and methodically; others push themselves to their physical
limit, the long heavy oars hitting the water up to 45 times a minute,
their muscles tortured and their lungs burning.

It’s understandable if you haven’t noticed: Rowers frequently start at
5:30 a.m., before most of us leave for work. What’s surprising is how
ignorant we are of big-time regattas.

Even for a non-Olympic year, this was a busy season. Last weekend in
Lucerne, Switzerland, U.S. rowers finished fourth among 37 countries
competing at the third of three World Cup regattas. On the last Saturday
of June, 21 titles were awarded at the 138th U.S. Rowing National
Championships on Mercer Lake in New Jersey. Earlier that month, the
University of Washington men took first at the Intercollegiate Rowing
Association National Championships in early June; Stanford University
women won the NCAA championships in May.

Results made few newspapers and rated nary a second of ESPN coverage.

“That’s a problem for us,” conceded Glenn Merry, head of U.S. Rowing, the
sport’s national governing body, in a phone interview. “Right now we have
maybe 150,000 who regularly participate in a sport out of a population of
300 million. To most Americans, we’re just not relevant.”

This is sad for a sport with a rich heritage. Rowing was the first
American collegiate sport, predating football in 1852 by 17 years. College
teams won gold medals in eight consecutive Olympics from 1920 through 1956
in the men’s eight, the most prominent event.

That early success, hard won by crews from such schools as the Naval
Academy and Yale, earned rowing a wholesome image. But today’s
multibillion-dollar sports machines are driven by stars, money and
violence. A team sport with no professional league, rowing has been
ignored by television—the fan’s conduit to sports. Yet U.S. Rowing
estimates that 85,000 people now row competitively, up from 32,000 in
1986; an additional 65,000 row recreationally. Occasionally races draw
crowds: Boston’s Head of the Charles regatta claims an attendance of
300,000 over its two days each October.

While high schools and colleges form rowing’s core, the new growth is
aided by community rowing clubs. They are everywhere where there’s water:
Boulder, Colo. and Alexandria, Va.; New York City, Chicago, Oklahoma City
and throughout Canada.

One of the busiest is Community Rowing Inc. on Boston’s Charles River, a
nonprofit organization that helps its 1,560 youth and adult participants
row at introductory and competitive levels. CRI began in 1985, when
Harvard coach Harry Parker opened his facilities to new rowers. It offers
classes for a fee to anyone and community outreach free to more than 200
teenage girls from the Boston area—“a third black, a third white, and a
third from all over,” according to CRI.

“Once the sport realized that the perception was the only way to get into
the water was to attend an elite college, people worked really hard to
change that,” said director Bruce Smith from the new CRI boathouse.
“Community rowing exists because a bunch of those elite people said we’ve
got to open the doors of this sport.” Rowing’s image as a sport for the
wealthy and white troubled U.S. Rowing enough to create a new position,
inclusion manager, and hire Richard Butler in May. His exact duties are as
yet undefined, but he might start by examining the work of CRI.

At 5:30 on a recent Friday morning, dozens of boats propelled by a diverse
group of rowers left the CRI dock: women in the four-oared shells with
coxswain—a nonrowing on-board coach who steers the boat—and men in their
four, each rower with a single oar, all members of the competitive groups;
women just learning in their eight-person shells, and lots and lots of
scullers, singles and doubles and quads—boats with one, two or four
rowers, each with two oars. They glided up river and down river, under the
bridges of Boston, nearly silent except for the occasional correction of a
coach from an accompanying motor launch.

Other Boston boathouses offer learner programs, part of a nationwide
effort to popularize rowing. But increased numbers have not translated
into Olympic success. Rowing is our third-largest Olympic team, behind
track-and-field and swimming, but it produced only three medals in 2008,
compared with 31 for swimming and 23 for track and field. The U.S. Olympic
Committee blames an emphasis on big boats, reasoning that eight rowers
could conceivably win medals in three or more smaller boats.

“They asked what it will take to move the other events forward,” according
to Mr. Merry, making it clear that the USOC uses funding for leverage. “If
we weren’t willing to make more of an effort in the other events, they
would have to put more money into another sport, like sailing. We’re
working on that.”

But U.S. Olympic problems are not limited to a division of effort. Because
rowers traditionally start in high school or college, even the best don’t
reach an elite level until their late 20s. This pushes the strenuous
training of advanced rowing up against studies and career, causing many to
quit. The dropout rate for freshman rowers is as high as 90%.

Collin Buesser, with high-school experience and a family tradition of
rowing, left Northeastern’s crew after his freshman year in 2008. “We
trained two, three hours every morning starting at 5:45 and then another
two to three hours in the afternoon,” he said. “I just couldn’t balance
all that with nine hours of homework.”

Plenty do manage, however. They put in their hours at college and clubs
dedicated to rowing. One of the oldest is the Riverside Boat Club, just
down the Charles from CRI. Its 210 members pay $550 a year and often row
11 times a week, training to compete against other clubs and some of the
nation’s best at national championships.

“It’s almost like it’s this closet subculture,” said Riverside trustee
Kate Sullivan one recent morning as early rowers took to the water. “On
the one hand, it’s too bad. Then again, it isn’t.”

For some rowers, anonymity is part of their bond.

—Mr. Rozin writes about sports for the Journal.


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Crewsters:  Thanks to all that participated in our Dough Raising Event in June. 
We had $1525 in total receipts which netted us $305 in profit.
Thanks agian,
Mike