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message from the editor
I set out a task for myself this spring to document the history of the crew team . Why? Did I not have anything else to do? I did, but it just wasn't as exciting as rowing. What would you do-create a methanol and MTBE chemical plant for your senior design project. or think about crew? I think each rower has been presented with this same question of how to allocate your time, and I think I did what any sensible rower would have done. I chose the latter option only to discover that I had to do the former to graduate.

I hoped that I could get all the information correct and in full detail, so I left it up to other people to describe. I contacted the alumni that I knew, and invited everyone to write something. I additionally got into contact with some of our 'lost' founders (who can't and won't believe it's been 15 years!).

I unfortunately didn't have the full alumni updated list at the time I was making all these requests (I just got it 2 days ago from the Alumni Association) and feel bad that I couldn't contact everyone. I also had to worry about passing Chemical Engineering-if I didn't finish my senior design project on time, I wouldn't graduate.

So to make it up, I will create a second edition of GT Crew history this Fall (when I have more time to contact more of our 'old' alumni).  I hope people get into the writing mood after seeing all of these great stories­ without stories we have no more past.

It's been exciting going through the old records from the 'crewhouse', the damp musty basement of the 'watersports-house' which we keep our few ergs and weights in. I've relived my childhood dreams of being an archeologist digging through old files

So for the crew team, I give this as my gift. I'm too poor to donate monetary items; plus my car was just stolen so I can't help drive to practices! I hope that our alumni will both remember and realize how great Georgia Tech Crew is. We are limited by many factors; however we are never limited by the desire and passion to row. For all of us, the passion comes from a different place, but it is a universal truth among us.

Please enjoy all the stories that your fellow alumni have compiled and I hope that it sparks that fire back in you.           

                Slim