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Posted by: DAN BLAINE (100,53680@germanynet.de) on 5/31/1997@06:46hrs:
1. The color of the boy's swim suits at Curtis? There were no suits, the boys swam w/o. As I mentioned in the interim answers, the swim classes were a real drag because in the winter you never got completely dried off and the next class was always at the other end of the school.
2. How many hills? I believe there are 5 hills: Ward's, Grymes, Emerson, Todt and Lighthouse hill. I'm not sure if the height that St. George sits on is considered a separate hill.
3. The best sleigh riding at Silver Lake? The 6th and the 7th fairways . Since they are adjacent(the 6th green and the 7th tee) it is hard to visualize them as two separate fairways. The 6th was the more challenging of the two, because although shorter, it was much steeper and you didn't have anything to stop you from going into the trees at the bottom and the little creek that ran between them. The 7th was more fun, because it had a "bump" (the foot/cart path) in the middle and safer because it had a berm at the bottom that separated the fairway from the creek and only a few bushes, no major trees.
4. The race: is (was?) called the "Liberty to Liberty" Triathlon. It started with a 2mile swim around the Statue of Liberty...The 100mile bicycle leg started on Liberty Island, went over the Bayonne Bridge and along Staten Island's west shore to the Outerbridge Crossing, over the Outerbridge through New Jersey to Philadelphia...the 10K run leg went past the Liberty Bell and finished up the "Rocky Steps" in Philly . It took me 8 1/2 hours to finish in 1985, good enough for a 3rd place in my age group (40+)..but no great shakes...the winner did it in 6hours +change! Note: after the race it was recommended that we get gamma globulin shots to ward off any chance of picking up an infection (like Hepatitis B) from swimming in NY Harbor without wetsuits. I got one from Dr. Arthur Siegelmann, who I believe still has a practice on SI.
5. Name of the Italian hero? Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) not only
led his "red shirts" against foreign domination in both northern and
southern Italy, but also led a revolution in Uruguay against Argentin-
ean rule. So was called the "Hero of Two Worlds". The monument in
Rosebank seemed to be in a state of disrepair for quite awhile...I
remember there was huge stone ball that had fallen off the roof and
lay on the ground beside it for a long time. I thought this question
would get some response from our "Sons of Italy" contributors on the
main "Gathering" bulletin board, but none was forthcoming; probably
because Garibaldi was not a true "Son of Italy" himself...he was born
in Nice, France.