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The spring rowing season has flown by! The team is more than half way through their race season. They swept the Gruenberg Cup against Long Beach St. and USC earlier this season, and are focusing on peaking this weekend at the San Diego Crew Classic!

The varsity men kick off the Crew Classic in the Cal Cup at 7:28AM on Saturday. They will compete against UCSD, Purdue, Notre Dame, UC Davis and Sac State. The JV team goes next…at 9:28 they compete against Yale, Stanford, Santa Clara & USD. At 10:52, the novice team races against Oregon St., Santa Clara, UCSB & Notre Dame. (The second novice boat races on Sunday at noon). Each race is being televised live on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/usrowingorg

…Speaking of Sunday, we will be having our Foundation’s annual meeting right before the BBQ at the SDSU Alumni tent. That will take place around 9:30AM (the time may move a bit to ensure everybody can watch the team race). This meeting covers what has happened to the Foundation over the previous year, and elect officers for the next year. Once the meeting finishes, the BBQ will be fired up for some tasty carne and pollo asada burritos!

This is a great chance to meet the current rowers, reconnect with some old teammates and meet new friends!

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Go Aztecs!

Dan Smith
Secretary
H. Del Beekley Rowing Foundation
SDSU Crew 1997-1999

In September 2012, the H. Del Beekley Rowing Foundation kicked off a fundraising effort to help fund new equipment for the rowing team. Coach Doug Perez writes the following:

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We have heard in the last five days from a bevy of new donors. Commitments have come in from John Denker, J.J. Jingali, Greg Moore, Leif Olsen, and – just today – Don Miner. WOW! People seem to be getting on board on a rolling basis!!!!!!!

And too, as I intimated a week ago, Scott Petry has re-thought his already amazing commitment – and is now purchasing two, matching, state-of-the-art 8s … one for the Varsity Heavies and one for my Novices. Then too, he has purchased several sets of oars to go along with them. Again – WOW!

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We have received almost $14,000 in donations at this point (not including commitments from others) and we have received money from rowers from just about every decade: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s & 2000s. If you can help out with this effort, please consider donating. (The goal is to purchase 3 new 8’s for the team, plus a new 4, and a set of oars to go with each shell)

Happy New Years from the Beekley Foundation. We look forward to 2012!

At the end of the Annual Foundation Meeting at the Crew Classic, the Foundation’s officers were elected. Please support the following people:

President: Jake Wittler
Vice President: Andy Olson
Treasurer: Jon Singer
Secretary: Dan Smith

On April 3 at 5:30PM, 19 people met at the Crew Classic for the Annual Beekley Foundation Meeting.

During the meeting, many topics were discussed. Current President Jake started off discussing the state of the foundation. The membership remained stagnate at about 35 members. The foundation did hold its first golf tournament last June, and is putting on the second annual tournament in June.

The focus of the foundation was to originally create a large endowment fund to help fund a full time coach. This goal is unchanged, but the much of the short-term focus of the foundation will switch to getting more alumni involved. This will involve hosting many small events throughout the year, including the main events hosted by the foundation. Due to the limited amount of time available to the officers of the foundation, these smaller events will be run by the members of the foundation.

The full set of meeting minutes can be read here

The first event will be a Padres game hosted by Mike Clodfelter sometime in May, and BBQ event will be lead by Joe Whitaker this summer. Stay tuned to this website (and check your email) for more information.

Go Aztecs!

Crew Classic 2016!

2012 Fundraising Effort

Happy New Years!

2011-2012 Beekley Foundation Officers

Crew Classic Annual Meeting