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production as well, playing several roles and requiring seven costume changes during the performance. “Try finding that many costumes for a 6' 9" man!” Andy Dannenberg is the first listed author on a book soon to be published by Island Press — see www.makinghealthyplaces.org for details. Tom Price writes that he has enjoyed the pleasant notes from classmates and thought he’d add this info about the unusual and interesting human-powered submarine competition he just completed with a class of USNA Midshipmen at the David Taylor Naval Research Center at Carderock, Md. He says, “Once you get past the ‘watching submarine races’ jokes, you find it is a serious competition, with 28 teams from seven countries competing, including France, Oman, Venezuela, Great Britain, Canada, Greece and the U.S. The subs are neat little underwater vehicles that are required to be flooded (SCUBA breathing) and propelled by one or two occupants. They can be propelled by turning a propeller, flipping flippers, wagging a fin tail or whatever else. Some get pretty sophisticated, with variable pitch propellers and sonar actuated depth and steering controls, instruments, etc. The races are timed runs down a 100-meter lane (in the Carderock model testing basin, which is 5/8ths of a mile long and 50 ft. wide and 30 ft. deep, containing over eight million gallons of water) with a 10-meter timing gate in the middle. The speeding subs are caught at the far end by Navy divers, who enjoy helping with the event. At speeds approaching seven knots and the water-filled subs weighing well over a ton, stopping them isn’t trivial! Our two-man sub was the week’s overall performance winner, with 22 flawless timed runs and a top speed through the gates of 6.1 knots (over 7 mph). Most interestingly, it repeatedly set new world records during the week for non-propeller speed. We had two sets of Hobie Mirage flipper mechanisms for propulsion, which were very efficient. If you are a kayaker, you may know of these, as they are pedal-propelled devices for hands-free kayaking (great for fishermen) and are far more efficient than paddles! The single man subs are always the fastest (6.5 kts this year) as they are smaller, with less wetted surface and mass to propel. The winning subs had previously all been propeller-driven. Our win was based on a combination of scoring factors, including speed, innovation, consistency, design and appearance
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as well as a formal presentation — the Mids are very good at this. Most satisfying was the Spirit award that USNA won, awarded by a vote by all the competitors. The Naval Academy previously won the first-ever Sub Races in 1989 down in Florida, off West Palm Beach. These were held out in the ocean and required a more maneuverable sub. They hadn’t competed in the event since 1993, and were pleased to once again win this event. Most exciting is that there will be a show about the competition featuring USNA in September on National Geographic or Discovery or some such channel. See you on the water.” Henry Taylor and his wife Nancyellen Brennan moved to Columbia, Md. in early April. “‘Aging gracefully’ sounds better than sharing that we now live in a 55+ community. There is some comfort when our neighbors say, ‘you’re too young to live here!’ But we really like Columbia, are two miles from the Merriweather Post Pavillion (and the mall), and have good friends nearby. Nancyellen continues as a nurse practitioner for the Hopkins Diabetes Center, seeing patients and coordinating an outreach project for Trinidad and Tobago. Here is an update on our kids: Chris, 29, is engaged to Fareha Ahmed, who shares his passion for international development. They currently live in Nairobi, Kenya. This winter he hopes to start field work for his Ph.D. in anthropology, exploring the Islamic notions of charity. Fareha and Chris climbed Kilimanjaro last week with Ruth, 28. Having worked for Outward Bound in Baltimore and Australia, she’s taking a break after three years of teaching grades K to second grade in a D.C. Charter School. Caleb, 24, headed West after college. He loves living in Portland, Ore., although the economy seriously limits his preferred lifestyle. Our youngest, Anna Taylor ‘09, 20, is a junior at Earlham College. She also worked as a lifeguard at a local pool prior to an arts internship in Philadelphia this fall. My career continues to be focused on community-based primary health care, a potential solution for an incredibly complex failure of our healthcare non-system. I teach this to graduate students on-site and on-line at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, mentor internal medicine interns, and have a clinical practice at Johns Hopkins Bayview. I keep active in public health as part-time deputy health officer for Cecil County Md., and doing action-research with 60 West Virginia volunteer fire and rescue squads. My siblings Dan Taylor ‘64 and
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DOUG MASON ‘76 and Lisa Chang Mason ‘76 with Jon Patz ‘76 in Alamo, Calif.
Betsy Taylor ‘66 and I are trying to sell our house in Baltimore. It is a gorgeous place just north of Lake Roland, secluded in the woods, but also right next to the Falls Road Light Rail Station. Look it up on MLS as 1201 Hollins Lane and give me a call!” As for me, I’ve just taken a job managing the upcoming capital campaign at Friends. I thought my life was full with my landscaping job, my parents and my grand-twins, but somehow there seems to be plenty of time — stay tuned for more information about the exciting projects that the campaign will fund!
1971. NEEDS A SECRETARY! Emily Frank writes, “Having retired in 2008, I am filling my days with a patchwork of activities. I referee field hockey and umpire softball games — reliving the athletic days of my youth — and I exercise my high school acting chops as a standardized patient at University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins. I’m also playing a lot of tennis and working at my tennis club. Through it all, my favorite activity is being the proud mother of Sarah Berkowitz ‘03 and Rebecca Berkowitz ‘06.
1974. Sally Slingluff salslinger@aol.com On Memorial Day, Mickey Greenbaum, Gay Ossman Rudow, Cam MacLachlan, Scott Nevin, Lynnette Young and yours truly got together to meet up with
Bill Massey and his family, who were in town for the NCAA lacrosse finals. As many of you already know, Bill passed away in August from a long battle with brain cancer. He showed amazing strength and will be greatly missed. Rand LeBouvier retired from the Navy in 2006 as a Captain, completed his Ph.D. in humanities with an interdisciplinary examination of humanoid robotics, and is working at Bluefin Robotics in Quincy, Mass., a leading designer and manufacturer of unmanned underwater vehicles. His daughter Tara is married to a Navy submariner stationed in Hawaii, his son Chris is a Navy helicopter pilot currently deployed in Bahrain, and his daughter Julia is an artist/sculptor who just graduated from Bryn Mawr College. Rand and his wife Julie live in Kingston, Mass. Scott Nevin just completed a 2,300-mile ride to Memphis, Tenn., aboard “The Beast,” a 2011 Triumph Rocket III Roadster. “Along with two other club members from Pete’s Cycle RAT [Riders Association of Triumph], this tour took us through nine states, staying mostly off the super slab in favor of roads like the Natchez Trace Parkway, the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive. We listened to some great blues music on Beale Street in Memphis and ate delicious barbecue at places featured on Guy Fieri’s Food Network show ‘Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.’ In eight days we encountered only one rainy day. There were no mechanical setbacks and fuel economy averaged 41 mpg. We also escaped the oppressive heat currently in the mid-South.”