On the morning of October 23, 2004, I returned
to Stanford for my 50th Class Reunion. Not many
of those
at the reunion showed up for my photograph below, although more showed up
for the official
photograph.
Crew members of the Class of 1954 met at the new
Stanford Rowing and Sailing Center
at Redwood
Shores.
For me, it was the
first
time in 50 years.
Wayne Dow, Bill Greninger,
Stan Lewis, Dixon Smith, Bill Allen, Bill Findlay, Pete Paup,
Jim Stockton.
Allen Dailey
[click
on above image to enlarge]
Pete Paup (Cox), Allen Dailey (#8), Bill Findlay (#7), Stan Lewis (#6),
Bill Greninger (#5), Bill Allen (#4), Austin
Shoemaker '06 (#3), Dixon Smith (#2), Justin Brown '08 (#1). Stanford
Rowing and Sailing Center in background.
What you see
above is a cardiologist's "dream": mostly 72 year-olds rowing
in a high tech, hyper carbon fiber,
starboard-rigged shell. The coxswain has a
Cox-BoxTM
(headband microphone, a mounted
amplifier/timer with speakers
throughout the boat) and a tiny tiller is integrated in a fixed fin
under the
shell immediately behind
the cox.
50 years ago, most
shells were made of wood, had steel riggers and were only
port-rigged (you had
to row port if you were a stroke [#8]); there
was a much larger hinged tiller at the tip of the stern; and the
cox
had a headband megaphone (had to shout) and a mechanical stop watch
hanging from the neck.
