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  • A Special Place

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    July will mark the 50th anniversary of my arrival in Canton and while I have been retired for eight years, I still marvel at the attraction St. Lawrence has for its athletic staff. My original plan was to stay two or three years at St. Lawrence and then move onto something bigger. While I did…

  • The Saga of a Job Transition

    The Saga of a Job Transition

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    I really enjoyed my time as a newspaper journalist, both at the Messenger and Sunday News and then seven years at the Burlington Free Press. I learned a lot, grew a lot as a writer and met tons and tons of great people…coaches, student-athletes and parents. My first year at the Free Press did not…

  • A Special Year

    A Special Year

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    The 1999-2000 academic/athletic year for St. Lawrence University was a pretty special one. It started out with an undefeated and untied march to the NCAA Division III Mens Soccer Championship, the first team to have an unblemished (22-0-0) record en route the national title and the winter season concluded with a record-setting NCAA quarterfinal game…

  • Manuals…we don’t need no stinking manuals!

    Manuals…we don’t need no stinking manuals!

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    I never delved that far into manuals. I did rule books to help me figure out how to cover new sports. I spent nearly all of my 40 years as a sports information director covering field hockey and equestrian, two sports I had little or no exposure to prior to joining the staff at St.…

  • MyWay                                           

    MyWay                                           

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    I’ve lived a life that’s fullI travelled each and every highwayAnd more, much more than thisI did it my way Regrets I’ve had a fewBut then again, too few to mentionI did what I had to doAnd saw it through without exemption From Frank Sinatra’s ”My Way” written by Paul Anka and Claude Francois. If…

  • The Assistants

    The Assistants

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    When I started at SLU we had 13 sports…when I left there were 35 varsity sports. I started with just me in the office and got tons of help typing play by play and other things at games from secretary Beth Cheney. The other secretaries at the PR office, Rita Hewlitt and Mary Hought helped…

  • Escaping the Cold

    Escaping the Cold

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    Since retiring, I have taken the opportunity to flee the cold of winter in the North Country. When I was younger and my knees and the rest of my body more willing, I enjoyed the winter months. When I wasn’t working and trekking to hockey rinks all over the country, I would take a day…

  • Zeebs du Jour

    Zeebs du Jour

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    A regular fixture in my hockey notes and line charts for St. Lawrence games was a line titled “Zeebs du Jour” listing the referees and linesmen for that particular contest. I have no idea where or when I picked it up, but I used it for a long time. “Zeebs” is an affectionate term for…

  • The Athletic Directors

    The Athletic Directors

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    Bob Durocher (left) and hockey coach Greg Carvel present me with a photo placque and a jersey following my retirement announcement in 2016. My last home regular season game was against Harvard on Feb. 27, 2016. In my 40 years at St. Lawrence, there were five different presidents of the University, but only four athletic…

  • Back to Photography and other Hobbies

    Back to Photography and other Hobbies

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    Since I haven’t quite figured out how to get captions to show under my pictures, I will place one here for the shot on today’s post. Two Nikon D200s, one significantly younger than the other, and a 600 lens are my Florida arsenal. The picture was taken with my Pixel 7 Pro phone which has…