The 2001 Boston Home Marathon Wheelers & Pushers, 4/16/2001

We made it to the Herald, page M17 of Tuesday 4/17/2001 issue ... click on tiny picture on right to view ... to get to this web page, go to www.summercore.com and click on Boston Home ... or use the direct web address of www.summercore.com/bh/marathon2001summary.html ... this page will be revised frequently over the next week or so. Pictures below are in chronological order from 10:33AM in Newton to 1:33PM at the finish line ;-) Steve Bergen (e-mail: bergen@nobles.edu) Congratulations to all wheelers and pushers!

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Dear Steve, I really enjoyed our participation in this years Marathon and would like to congratulate our pushers on a job well done.

Here are some thoughts by Fred Holway, one of the 12 wheelers!
I enjoyed the day as well. All the others at the Home enjoyed it as much as I did. It was like "old Home Week" when I met with the pushers from Nobles. Hopefully we will raise the money to expand our lab here.

Here are some thoughts by Colleen Powers, one of the 12 wheelers!
The energy and commitment that the students and staff from Nobles was awesome! They were already pumped up when we met them at Cleveland Circle. (I don’t suppose that it had anything to do with Mr. Bergen’s high-octane encouragement?). What was really amazing was the encouragement from the crowd on the side of the street cheering us on like we had already gone 24 miles! Ok, I’ll take it!

Here are some thoughts by Mike Caristinos, one of the 12 wheelers!
A job well done! The captain is ecstatic -- kudos to you! Count on my return in 2002!

Here are some other thoughts by Bob Pero, one of the 12 wheelers!
I’ll be back next year! It was a real thrill to be at the Marathon!

Yesterday at the marathon I was waiting at the corner of Hereford and Commonwealth Avenue to see my daughter as she was finishing her run. My family got there early so that we could watch all of the festivities. Just as we got there we saw all of the Nobles' who were wheeling residents from the Boston Home on the final phase of their marathon. What an AMAZING sight it was to see the spirit and enthusiasm that both Nobles folks and the Boston Home residents had. The warm reception of the crowd and your warmth in your response back was amazing. Congratulations to you all! Linda Woodard, Nobles Director of Admissions

Steve, We can't thank you enough for including us in the 2001 Boston Home Marathon event this year. We very much enjoyed getting to know Donald Dalphe and hope he had as much fun as we did. He mentioned that he wanted to talk to you about an uplink hookup to the Space Lab, not sure what that was about, but perhaps it warrants further investigation by the Nobles team for future consideration.

Thanks again, Warmest regards, -clinton

Twelve Wheelers This Year

  1. Linda Stranieri
  2. Alvin Mirksy
  3. Michelle Hurley
  4. Tom Peno
  5. Bob Pearo
  6. Mike Castinos
  7. Colleen Powers
  8. Fred Holway
  9. Claudia Badgett
  10. Duncan Morrison
  11. Donald Dalphe
  12. laurie gilberto

Over 33 Pushers This Year

11 students Derek M, Kate H, Bryan S, Sarah S, Louise W, Jessica L, Jen G, Greg H, Ted B, Ashley S, Sam S,

2 parents Lisa Bond and Laurie Swett

7 Nobles faculty members: Bob Moore-fac Amadou Seck-fac Kate Coon-fac Ellie Newman-fac Ben Snyder-fac Sarah Snyder-fac Steve Bergen Many friends: mardi newman, mother of ellie newman ,,, david s ... from city year: danielle simonetti ... Hazel Sparrow, Teacher from lewenberg Middle School, Mattapan with students Dionne A, Terale F, Jethro G, Jermaine G and her daughter!
two sisters of Laurie Gilberto

two heroes: Faith and Jeff from the Boston Home, tech overseers and trainers

one migrator (yes, he is the migrator who saved NoblesNet on january 26--Clint Gilbert) along with his daughter Elizabeth and her friend Amanda

So we called up Piping.com
We told them this was no false alarm
Migrator, he took the files and tried to move them

They have a tech guy there named Clint
His tech skills are worth a mint
Migrator, he took the files and tried to move them

He's a larry bird kind of guy
Not pitinoesque pie in the sky
Migrator, he took the files and WAS ABLE to move them

So we tried again on January 26
Hiring Clint with his bag of tricks
Migrator, he took the files and HE DID move them