Here's a couple of offerings that pick up on themes from earlier blogs - crazy places we showed off our gymnastic expertise and "Beauty and the Beast" photos. C'mon guys add a few of your own!

FROM TERRY TRUMAN

This photo is August 21, 1966, on a concrete platform 40 feet out over the canyon leading to the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone.

My U of Washington friend, Larry Gray, said, “Terry, a perfect place for a handstand.” I shook the fence to be sure it was relatively solid, stepped over in the void, put my tippy-toes on the raggedy, broken concrete at the bottom of the fence, and pressed up.

One woman screamed the entire time. When I turned out of the handstand onto the platform, an elderly man walked up to me, grabbed my arm and shook it, and said, “G**damn it, we thought you were going to jump.”

This photo made the short list for the Patagonia clothing “adventure” catalog circa 1987-1988, but lost out to real adventure-seekers, such as one guy in Australia free-climbing very high up, hanging on with five fingernails and ten toenails and drinking a bottle of Cooper’s Ale with his other five fingers.

FROM JACK RYAN

I have my own “superman” photo and I can’t be outdone by Pat (see article below). These are kinda like “before and after” but without the “way after” (see Key West photo when our wives escorted us to Southern South Florida for some snorkeling). Seeing the photos reminds me that we (my side horse buds in high school and college) were involved in a change in the sport. Every year we would go down to Tucson for Christmas break and see what others were doing new and different and show them “a thing or two”. Back then the cutting edge was to “go behind your back” where the trick was blind. Now a days everything is behind the back but back then everything was out in front of you. I still believe that I won my senior year because I had two or three tricks that were cutting edge (it helped that I didn’t fall off which I was prone to do once in a while). So when you compare my superman picture with my before pic, its not the change in the body as much as the change in position on the horse. Looking forward to catching up with all of you.

Cracker Jack

Guys (and some gals, I suppose),
I know a lot of you are enjoying looking at the blog and remembering the psychedelic days of the 60's but as I've warned before I've run out of material other than all the Boulder Daily Camera reports about Fairview and CU with my name underlined in red ink (courtesy of mom and wife). I refuse to print anymore of those so until a few of you contribute bios, pic's, articles, memories, and such the rest of us will just check in and immediately leave disappointed that there is nothing new to read or look at. Now aren't you ashamed you haven't contributed anything?

Only a little more than a week away!
I had my daughter create map links for the events so go to the left-hand column and click on the addresses to be shown a map to each event.

I'm really bummed. Terry Truman has told me some clients have insisted he be in meetings with them next weekend so he'll miss the reunion after all the help he has given me with the blog.

Nevertheless, here is a nice unsolicited note about Terry that came in from Rich Jaouen this morning along with a current photo of Rich.

Pat,
I have run into Terry Truman about a dozen times over the last 30 years and each time he knew my name and what I was doing. He is truly amazing. I ran into Terry at open clinics at Aurora Central in high school. In college he knew my room mate and has kept in touch with him since. I was really a nobody in gymnastics but Terry always knew my name and went out of his way to say hi whenever we were at the same event. He would always up date me on what other gymnasts were doing. What a terrific guy.
Rich
PS: here is my current picture. The plane is a Fokker DVIII. I helped build the wing.

REMEMBER - TO ENLARGE ANY PHOTO OR ARTICLE JUST CLICK ON IT.

I need fresh meat for the blog so send me some more stuff to post.
Until you do I'll ramble on again. I started wearing glasses in fourth grade and had a correction change every nine months until I finally got contacts in 10th grade. By then my glasses resembled the fabled coke-bottle bottoms. And they were usually broken and taped either at the bridge or at the hinges. My mother bought clothes to last the full school year so our jeans always had a four inch cuff the first half of the year. My dad cut my hair until I was in late high school - I hope you're getting the picture of how cool I looked through all my early teen years!

Now all of us have pictures we hate because we can't imagine we really look like that; we simply couldn't look that awful and I have plenty of those. One of them is below but if we're fortunate we also have a few photos that make us look pretty good - in fact much better than we do in real life. I'm also going to post one of those. In fact it's one of my all-time favorites. But I have to be honest. When I first saw it I didn't think it looked like me at all. I knew I was nowhere that good looking; the thick, dark wavy hair, that chiseled jaw, those determined eyes, the sculpted muscles - Why I LOOKED just like Superman. No wonder my girlfriend lusted after me! Of course the reality is that I looked somewhere in between the two photos shown below. I hope you can tell which is which. And the one immediately below the two was taken yesterday after a hard day of updating the blog showing how I look today.
























More scrapbook clippings of an old team mate.

A few meet results.

Perry Guinn

Steve Johnson

From the 2001 Boulder Daily Camera
From the Archives:
25 Years Ago November 26, 1976: CU women's gymnastics Coach Eric Singer and four top American gymnasts traveled to South Africa to compete against athletes from eight countries. Five of the nations pulled out to protest against the South African apartheid government. Singer, the CU women's coach since 1974, was named head gymnastics coach for the American team in November of 1976. He traveled with Ron Galimore, a 17-year old black gymnast from Louisiana, who received standing ovations for his winning performances on the vault and floor exercise. As the CU women's gymnastics coach, Singer had sent 15 gymnasts to national competition.

Our Newest Attendee!

JIMMY FULCHER

YO Pat, here’s my bio:

Maybe I can keep my sequences in correct order. After all it’s been about 46 year’s since I graduated from South High, Denver, and at least that long since seeing most of you. After just barely graduating from South, Coach Tony Rossi was able to get me into CSC, [now UNC]. Coach Rossi and I did NOT get along. He could not deal with my wild attitude, nor I with his [my perceived perception] aloof attitude. First year was OK, second year I was gone. I joined the Navy, good decision. I served on a nuke sub, the experience taught me some much needed self discipline. I was discharged, honorably of course, in 1970. By this time, I’m married, one kid, and shortly another on the way in 1971, all the while working in construction, until 1972. I decided to give school another whirl. I graduated from Metropolitan State College, with degree in Recreation, witha sports and athletic emphasis, in 1976. While attending Metro I had a successful stint with power lifting. When I graduated, I could not find a job. Once again I think my wired personality might have been part of the problem. Out of the BLUE I get a call from KIMN Radio, weird personality welcome. In short I became KIMN’s mascot, The KIMN Chicken. Unreal job for 11 year’s. During that time I got into motorized dirt biking. I remarried to my “darling” Pam. We got married April, 86, and spent out honeymoon riding our dirt bikes in Moab, Utah. I did a bodybuilding show at 57 years old, as you see in the picture. The “Russian” splits picture is at a dual meet. The “Yogi” handstand was taken at the DU Invitational in 1963. Bobby Fisher was very concerned about the light, he mentioned I should have them turn it off, I did not. Sure enough, I couldn’t lock the “Yogi” in. Win some, loose some, huh? I’ve been mostly welding for the last 20 years. Well this should be enough. Hopefully a lot of us will see one another at the reunion. Ya’ll be Cool.

Jimmy Fulcher.

Today's post compliments of Terry Truman
NCAA Championship Report, Modern Gymnast, April 1964.
John Quintana placed 4^th in All Around. Note John Quintana, Bob Poston, and Rich McCabe in the Trampoline section. See Jim Barber in column 1, Sid Freudenstein in column 3, but particularly notice the review of Cliff Gauthier outlined in yellow. This event occurred during Cliff’s famed macrobiotic period of rice, popcorn, and beer, later monitored thoroughly by the Denver County Selective Service Board. A Classic. Terry

NCAA Championship “Viewpoints” Report by Dick Criley, Modern Gymnast, May 1967.

Ken Macaulay (for a nice photo of young Ken see Art White's post that's back a few)
I don’t have a lot of pictures handy, so I’ll try to paint one. After graduating from CU in August of ’73 (B.S. in Business Administration, Major in Accounting) I was unable to find suitable work in the Boulder/Denver area, so I relocated to Santa Barbara, CA in January of ’74 and started with the Sambo’s Restaurants, Inc. headquarters as their Assistant to the Internal Auditor. After several promotions, (the last being to Corporate Tax Mgr.) Sambo’s went Chapter 7 (bankrupt) and the Management team from Motel 6, Inc. (which had taken over control of SRI on the orders of their owners, City Investing, Inc.) transferred me to Motel 6 as their Tax Manager in ’79. After two years with them I stepped back to work with a couple of CPA firms (to complete my accounting education, really) where I met my future wife, Catherine Hagen. We were married October 20, 1984 and because of certain IRS issues, I returned to work at Motel 6 as their Director of Administrative Accounting (it’s all about the money and taxes).

On March 14,1987 our first son was born, Sean Hagen Macaulay. Kevin Raymond Macaulay was born April 3, 1989. Both are attending college, so there goes my retirement. I left Motel 6 when they relocated to Dallas and worked for a land development company for a couple of years and then for the United Way of Ventura County for the next six years. I’ve been working as CFO for SOILMOISTURE EQUIPMENT CORP. for the last 12 years and Cathy and I will celebrate our 25^th wedding anniversary this coming October. She doesn’t know it yet, but I’ve booked reservations for a trip to Hawaii in November. Like Tim Larson, I felt a little like a fish out of water when I first arrived in Boulder in my sophomore year in High School. Coach White kept me so busy with school and workouts it took the edge off of my fear and discomfort. Much of all I’ve accomplished in my life I can blame on a coach who let me know that success sometimes isn’t as immediate as we’d like it to be. Patience, diligence, confidence and perseverance are the keys to attaining anything worthwhile. If the path to your destination is littered with insurmountable obstacles, find another path or pick another destination. I feel very lucky and blessed to have gotten where I am and I am not unnecessarily worried about where I am going. Right now I’m getting ready to see some people with whom I shared one of the greatest time of my life with.

So, aside from years of Cub Scouts & Boy Scouts and all the hiking, fishing and camping “in the wild” that goes with that, city league softball, tennis and golf and the associated reconstructive surgery that went with that, there’s a snapshot of my last 42 years. We can fill in some of the blanks on Friday and Saturday for fun.

The Blog additions today are courtesy of Cliff Gauthier.

My scanner cut off the bottom but I'm sure you all recognize the guy at the bottom - Del Strange from Lincoln and CSU who was the alternate.

Several of you have written me to say you couldn't leave a comment when you tried so I consulted my IT specialist (my youngest daughter) and she changed it so anyone - even you guys - can leave comments. So go back through the various posts and make your erudite observations on the things that have been shared.

Now aren't any of you beginning to feel bad knowing that I have to pore over my scrapbook again and again, day after day, week in and week out to try and gather interesting features you will all enjoy that don't have my own name underlined in red ink by my mom or girlfriend? If you feel the slightest bit of guilt at putting such a workload on me you WILL contribute your long, overdue bio, pics, memories, anecdotes or newspaper clippings to the blog.

The following - which will be the first of several reports on high school and college meets from our era - is a special favorite of mine because of the sweet justice. As a lowly sophomore I remember mighty Aurora Central coming into our gym for a dual meet led by Jim Barber, Jack Ryan and the other giants of yore. I remember they had purchased a copy of the Boulder Daily Camera and Jack read the sports article about Fairview's meet with Aurora Central to his team as they sat on the bleachers before warming up. They got quite a kick out of it and then went on to demolish us by 20 points which was the closest Fairview had ever come to AC. (Since I control the blog I have perfect freedom to slander Ryan all I want. If I have time I may include the article he read although it will be missing his voice inflection.) Maybe you'll understand my delight at the newspaper article. Naturally I hope Fairview always behaved with appropriate humility when we were on top! And if we didn't I don't want to hear about it!

Those were the days... when censorship ruled the world!
This is a photo from our high school newspaper from early 1966. If you look closely you will see that all of us are wearing black shirts - but some of them were added with a black, felt-tip marker because the adult sponsor felt our bare chests were inappropriate for public consumption.

Big 8 Champs from Colorado
Tom Jenkins - Still Rings - 1964
Rich Jones - High Bar - 1964
Bob Setchell - Floor Exercise - 1965
Jim Barber - Floor Exercise - 1966
Jack Ryan - Side Horse - 1966
Dan Evans - Trampoline - 1966
Bob Fisher - Vault - 1966
Bill Padia - Parallel Bars - 1966
Jim Barber - Floor Exercise - 1967
Jack Ryan - Side Horse - 1967
Bob Fisher - Vault - 1967
Pat Edwards - Side Horse - 1968
Ben Blea - High Bar - 1969

ART WHITE
Hello Pat and the rest of the Colorado gymnastics world. I have had a great time hearing about all the great times of the past and the wave of the future. I have a few additions to what I sent to the Golden Oldies Blog sometime ago. First of all, here is a picture from the Colorado Gymnastics Camp that Don Robinson and I with a number of other individuals organized at Trojan Ranch. Here is Ken Macaulay high above Boulder at about 9,000 ft above sea level. We sure had fun with the camp.

Secondly, The young lady is one of my 4 daughters. The Fairview gymnasts as well as some of the others probably remember the girls in the station wagons on the way to the Tuscon clinics. The picture below is of Debbie, the oldest who was on The Ohio State University Women’s Varsity Gymnastics team and currently teaches mathematics here in Worthington, Ohio. Terry, the next in line lives in Zanesville, Ohio and has 2 sons and 2 daughters and provides preschool care for little ones. The next is Mitzi who lives in Marysville, Ohio and has a daughter and two sons and she is an art teacher. Finally, Heather is the youngest and has 2 daughters and a son. She currently manages a horse back riding stable as well as does choreography for the Otterbein College dance program.

I have been impressed by what everybody is doing and I was touched by the comments that some of you have shared. We just never know how what we do and what we say can influence the lives of those around us. Thank you all for sharing with us.

Art White (Coach)

Thought you'd all enjoy reading this from the early 70's when it might have described all of us! (Now send me your contribution unless you want to only see the contents of my scrapbook which are a bit one-sided.)

TIM LARSON

Although I can’t make it to the big event, I thought I would contribute something to the “Geriatrics Today” blog. Wow…it’s great that so many of us are still walking and talking. Anyway, here’s my story:

After winning a couple of medals at the 1967 state meet, I went to CU and spent a couple of years wondering how I was going to overcome my complete lack of talent for gymnastics. I resolved things by leaving the sport to the rest of you after my sophomore year, but not before getting to know a lot of good people and registering a lot of good memories.

For the past six years, I’ve been the communications manager for the City of Sammamish, a suburb about 20 miles east of Seattle. Moving backwards through time, I was a newspaper reporter for four years, a local TV news producer for 6 years, and a TV reporter, weatherman, and Evening Magazine host for about 15 years. Prior to entering TV, I was a radio DJ for about 6 years, something I had as much aptitude for as gymnastics. Fortunately, I was good at the TV, newspaper and communications stuff.

I married Margaret Larson in 1982. You might remember her – she was the news anchor on the Today Show with Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric back in the early 90’s. She also worked for Dateline NBC for several years. We left New York in ’93 after we figured we didn’t want to raise our newborn son there. I got a job at KIRO-TV in Seattle and we’ve been here ever since. Margaret worked here as a local anchor for several years, but now works as a communications consultant for a bunch of international relief agencies.

Things are good. My son, Kyle, is almost 17 and pitches for the Issaquah High School baseball team. Margaret, Kyle, our dog Molly, and I spend a lot of time watching baseball, working, relaxing and enjoying the Northwest. When Kyle goes off to college, we’re thinking of moving somewhere sunnier, but we’ve really enjoyed our time here.

I want to thank Pat for putting all this together. It’s been great to look at the pictures, both old and new, and to read the bio’s. I also want to thank Coach White. Coach, if you read this, please know that you were a real blessing in my life. When I first met you in 1965, I had just returned from overseas and was going to school in the U.S. for the first time since 6^th grade. I was scared to death. Wasn’t sure I could cut it in the big “USA.” Anyway, stumbling into gymnastics for the first time that year, and getting to know you and the guys on the team, was a huge confidence boost for me. I immediately felt like I was part of something special, and it was all because you were special. You were the kind of coach guys wanted to work for, win for, and, to twist a line from a movie, the kind of coach that made us all want to be better men. That may sound sentimental, but hey, check it out – even Pat turned out okay! Thanks again for everything, and I hope you and the rest of the guys have a wonderful time! Maybe I’ll make it to the next one.

Tim Larson

Fairview ‘67

DENNIS BERG

I have to admit I had heard wind of a reunion and was not particularly interested. After Ben Blea got in contact with me and sent me the Website for the reunion, I have changed my mind. I spent many years of my life with a great bunch of guys that are either responding to your Website or will be there in person for the reunion dinner. Looking forward to old friends revisited.

First, Pat, I should talk about you. If memory servers me, I met you in Junior High School when you were in braces and crutches. Who knew we would end up as gymnasts together at good old CU. I think we went to Douglas Junior High School together for a year. Do you remember Cindy White? They started busing kids the following year and I ended up at Centennial Junior High in north Boulder. I fell in with a rough crowd, but boy I had a good time. I participated in track, basketball and gymnastics when I got there. Gymnastics was my favorite, but I am not sure who was the coach or how much he knew about gymnastics.

I participated in some type of open meet at Fairview for Junior High School students. I didn't know what floor ex was. Enter Art White. He watched me warming up on the mats and stopped me and asked me if I had a floor ex routine. The answer was NO. Coach White says to me, "Show me what kind of tricks you can do". After a quick show of what I could do, Coach White designed a floor ex routine for me. I practiced it maybe twice and did it at that meet. I think I did pretty good, but time distorts how we think of ourselves. I was hooked on gymnastics.

We moved from Boulder in my sophomore year and I attended Wasson High School in Colorado Springs. After competing there for one year we moved back to Westminster where I attended Ranum High School. There I got Lou Baretta as a coach and got to know Doug Watkins who turned out to be my best friend. I competed at Ranum for my Junior and Senior year with some success. One problem. I was doing a Giant Cartwheel on vault and tore up a knee. I thought the scholarship deals were gone since I had to have surgery in my Senior year. Enter Art White, the now coach at CU. He was willing to take a chance on me with my injury and offer the only Scholarship offer I received. With out that offer I may have blown off college and gone to work.

Thank you Coach White!

I attended CU from 1966 to 1971. I had way to much fun my first year there and nearly flunked out and lost my Scholarship. After getting my act together I competed with some of the greatest guys. PAT EDWARDS, ERIC SINGER, BOB FISHER, TOM CASEY, GARY POMERANZ, BEN BLEA, JACK RYAN AND A COUPLE OF OTHER GUYS WHO ESCAPE THIS 61 YEAR OLD MIND. What a trip. Due to another knee injury, I redshirted for one year. That worked out great since it took me five years to get through college anyway.

After graduating, yes I did graduate, I went to work for "Ma Bell". I did a little judging of high school gymnastics and then moved on. I was an engineer for about 15 years and then turned into what I would like to call a "Corporate Puke" for another 12 years. It was time to retire. Doug Watkins and I retired together on July 4th 1998. INDEPENDENCE DAY, how fitting. Now my jobs are golfing, bowling, drinking, smoking and make sure my wife gets to work on time.

Wait! My Wife. You gymnasts are cool, but Marie, my wife, my lover, my girlfriend , my best friend is the best part of my life. I met her when I was attending CU and she was in High School. (Cradle Robber). We got married in Las Vegas in in 1973. Those Vegas marriages just don't last. Only 36 years so far. We did not have kids so we are dog people. Our latest is a Blue Healer/Border Collie mix by the name of "OZ Dog". We like him a lot. Enough!!

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the dinner.

Dennis

TOM JENKINS (click on pages for viewing)

MUTT AND JEFF
(Klanecky and Edwards)

State Meet Results from 64, 65, 66

(courtesy of the Denver Post - send me additional year's clippings)
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AND apologies to Barry Pomeranz, Larry Sarcano and Scott Bolunce to list just a few of the typos)

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