Where'd you go to school?

1980-84: Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ (high school, boarding student) 1984-86: Rhode Island School of Design (photography major) 1986-88: School of Visual Arts, NY (BFA photography) 1988-91: New York University / International Center of Photography (MA)

Originally posted by Swimmer Bill 1980-84: Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ (high school, boarding student) Sorry to hear that. ;) I got suspended for several days from high school (Delbarton '73 - go Green Wave) for telling the headmaster of Peddie that he was full of after he accused me of cutting the cross country course when we raced there. He was, apparently, helping to run the meet and thought he saw someone at a great distance cutting the course and somehow decided that it was me. (I didn't and I don't know what drug he was on at the time.) After we had words, it apparently got back to the powers that be at Delbarton and I got eviscerated for disrespect. My Old Man nearly broke me in half just to reinforce the point. -LBJ

Since Tuesday, I've had to swim in the pool where I went to college. The Y is being renovated. The pool at Knox is only four lanes. It is really odd being there. Since I graduated, Knox has built a large indoor track & fieldhouse but done nothing to the pool. There are records there still from the mid-70's. The guy who set them was named Murro. He was very fast. there is a picture of him wiht long hair & a beard. I can't believe we used to have our hair so long & swim! He could have gone anywhere but choose the greatest little school in the country! Remeber that many small schools still have both men's & women's swimmig!!

I swam in HS for two years in Maryland. Then I went to Frostburg State University in western MD. I wanted to swim there, but the coach didn't think my times were fast enough, though I could keep up with the fastest women. That really put me off swimming for years until four years ago when I started swimming again.

Originally posted by hrietz Wow Meg that's exciting. Never would have thought that I would have found another Vandy Commodore on these posts. I also swam at that intramural meet when I was in med school. The pool in Memorial Gym is actually GONE. They had to make room for facilities for the nationally ranked baseball team...They do have a beautiful student rec. center with a great pool where I sometimes swim. Actually last year they were thinking about bringing back women's swimming. I think that they would have done well with recruiting especially since some of the minor athletic programs like tennis, golf and lacrosse have had such success AND I'm told that Vandy is a HOT school right now. But instead they instituted a BOWLING team. How pathetic... Heather, you're lucky that you're still in Nashville, where being a Commodore is not looked on as something to be pitied! It is not easy being a little black & gold island in a sea of blue in the heart of Wildcat Country! I knew about the new pool, but did not realize the old armpit in Memorial Gym is gone. I swam in the City Meet there every year when I was in high school! Pretty sad we got bowling instead of women's swimming. And it doesn't seem like it's even a GOOD bowling team, according to what I read in Commodore Nation! Meg

I swam at Flint Junior College (Michigan) for two years where I was a three-time Junior College All-American (the second year the name changed to Genesee Community College). I won the 100 and 200 yd breaststroke at the 1970 NJCAA national meet as a freshman. My 200 time broke the national meet record. Our 400 yd medley relay also won the nationals and in the process we set the NJCAA national record (broke our own record several times during the year) and the national meet record. I was looking for an adventure so I accepted a scholarship to swim for Eastern New Mexico University. The first meet of the year was close to my 200 PR and I was pumped for a good season. But then I got respiratory infection and couldn’t shake it for the rest of the season. That ended my college swimming career, so I decided it was time to get serious about graduating. I majored in chemistry, minored in math. I have been swimming masters since 1987.

I went to undergraduate school at Eckerd College (small school in St. Petersburg Florida), they didn't have a swim team, but I learned to swim laps with a friend who swam in high schhool.. that's how I started in the swimming realm. Graduate School (Oceanography) at University of South Florida on the St. Petersburg Campus... don't ask how I ended up in Oklahoma :rolleyes: I finally found a coach in Norman OK, and I'm just now starting to get into swimming competitively at 31. I"m so excited! It's nice to have some real input from someone who knows what they're doing, instead of reading a technique article and hoping I'm doing it correctly... cheers! Jeanette.

Washington University in St. Louis - BA Anthropology University of East Anglia, Norwich, England - semester abroad. University of Oklahoma - MA Anthropology I was too busy studying at Wash U to swim. I did swim with the "Swimming Club" at UEA (after I had my mum mail my 'bathing costume' to me). It was a 33 1/3' pool - very weird. Started swimming for fitness again as a grad student at OU, but never competed. Grad school doesn't really allow for a life outside of academics. Now, you couldn't pay me enough to go back to school, and can't keep me out of the pool. Kae

79-83: Lake Forest College, 4 yrs swim team BA: History & Mathematics 84-87: Univ. of Michigan, 2 yrs water polo club JD 93-94: Naval War College, 1994 USMS SCY Nationals MA: National Security Studies For all you youngsters out there who want to swim and study in college, LOOK AT FREAKING DIV III PROGRAMS! Swim for the varsity, have fun, get a good education, have balance, go to grad school if you want. For all of you out there who talk to high school swimmers, TALK UP FREAKING DIV III PROGRAMS! We hyper-focus on the Olympic hopefuls in Div I, but it is much more feasible to study seriously in Div III (even if you have the chops for Div I), and to participate in Div III, especially if you don't have the chops for Div I. Please note, Kenyon is not Div III. That's not a slam; it's a compliment, but it's not Div III. Don't let the label fool you; they've bribed the NCAA to let them continue to compete against actual Div III schools. (All you Lords & Ladies out there, I'M JUST KIDDING!!) Matt

Univ. of Texas, Austin: 1991-1995