Member Spotlights

It wasn’t long after Marie Davis Markham (Lincoln, 1995) started winning long-distance races that she negotiated her first (air quotes) sponsorship deal.

Had Hal Jackson (Grant, 1965) plotted a different course forward when he started running back in the ‘60s, he could be close to halfway to the moon by now.

Jackie Strong’s early memories of sports go much deeper than when he would grab a stick, steal a head off his sister’s doll and use it to play backyard homerun derby with his pals.

There’s a brief moment in the retelling of her childhood story when Laura Matthews Stanford (Jackson High, 1980) could be mistaken for Laura Ingalls Wilder (“Little House on the Prairie,” 1935).

A trip from Portland to Maine may seem like a long way to go just to taste a crustacean, but not if you’re lobster-curious, highly competitive, love a good adventure, are traveling with the right partner and have a reliable…bicycle.

In the context of everything he has done for his former high school, the fact that one of Jeff Erdman’s daughter’s middle name is Madison may not be the most obvious sign of his affection for all things Senatorial.

If you’re going to take a trip down memory lane with Jack Dunn, you may want to pack some provisions. This scenic byway stretches on for a lot of miles and, as any previous passenger will tell you, the driver provides zero evidence he has forgotten any of the milestones along the way.

They were just a couple of numbers and a single word, but they spoke volumes about Kay Kersey Kee’s (Roosevelt, 1981) self-confidence and competitive nature as a young athlete.

It had been a long time since Matt Asay had spent any quality time with the friend he’d been virtually attached at the hip to since childhood. Something like three years and change it was, but it seemed even longer to Asay, who was painfully aware of the personal struggles Walter Bailey had been going through during that time and well before it.

Given her druthers, Loretta Anderson would have chosen satin and tulle and tiaras over singlets and spikes and sweats as the attire of record for her youngest daughter. But it’s not as if Rochelle Anderson Teeny (Marshall, 1979) hadn't made an effort to indulge her mother’s wishes.

It was his first day as a teacher at Lincoln High School, before classes had started in 1968, and David Bailey (Cleveland, 1963) hadn’t even had time to align the chairs for his future students or clap the chalk dust out of his dry erasers before he got an offer he couldn’t refuse.

Being the tallest kid in her sixth-grade class, if not her entire middle school, wasn’t what Stephanie Burnham Needham (Wilson, 2000) would have considered a blessing at the time.