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"Swimming Until Nonagenarianism" ~ Click HERE for the roster of SUN Masters

		Head Coach Joe Biondi 216 Elizabeth Street Clearwater FL 33759 727-725-9978		President Christine Kelly 1871 Pasadena Drive Dunedin FL 34698 727-733-5000
		Vice President Nancy Durstein 1191 Mineola Circle Palm Harbor FL 34683 727-784-5780		Treasurer/Registrar Marianne Bradley 869 Manning Road Palm Harbor FL 34683 727-784-0420 727-433-0894
		FACT Team Communications Don Puchalski 157 Lakeview Way Oldsmar FL 34677 727-786-1530 (winter) 262-537-2609 (summer)		USMS/LMSC/Sr Games Liaison Joan Campbell 802 Old Mill Pond Road Palm Harbor FL 34683 727-938-7181
		SUN Board Member Florence Delaney 407 Driftwood Dr. E. Palm Harbor FL 34683 727-937-0163		SUN/LMSC Newsletter writer Patricia Cohen Crow 3846 Timber Ridge Court Palm Harbor FL 34685 727-785-5095

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IN MEMORIAM - BEVERLY TUCKER - March 20, 1935-April 4, 2008 BEVERLEY swam away peacefully into the sunset on April 4, 2008, after a very short valiant battle with cancer. Many of us who remember a vibrant, active, enthusiastic, loving and caring personality just four months ago.  Bev invented our term “aquaquack” and to say she taught us well is an understatement.  Rarely was she not offering us animated conversation and her quality of life was inspirational.  “Where’s Bev going this time?” was always a topic – to Colorado to bike and hike or ski, to Mexico to enjoy her friends, to California to swim in San Francisco Bay, and to Australia to swim in Sydney with the sharks.   Of course, she spent at great deal of time in Asheville, North Carolina with friends and a good team there and her life in Collingwood, at the south end of Georgian Bay in Canada, consisted of a great deal of skiing, which she enjoyed immensely.      Beverley’s long swimming history included many open water swims, which she excelled in.  This past year she swam the Lake Placid Swim and she has participated in distance swims throughout the world.  In Brazil they were foolish enough to claim she was too old to swim the open water 5K in the Latycar World Championships.  With her signature tenacity she prevailed – of course won her age group and swam faster than many others younger than she.       She started her swimming career as a child and was a member of the Canadian Synchronized Swim Team and awarded a demonstration medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic games.  She was active in Canadian swimming,  competing in past Canadian National and World Championships.   In the U.S. she was a member of the North Carolina Masters Swimming (while living in Asheville). Beverley first joined the St Petersburg Masters Team around 1981; was former president and influential in bringing the legendary coach George Bole to their team in l984.  Tiger Holmes of the Holmes Lumber Jax team recalls the help Bev gave them when many swimmers from Florida made the trip to Australia for the Masters Worlds in Brisbane in 1988.  Her friendliness and thoughtfulness in making sure everyone was taken care of was exemplary of her always bright and cheery outlook.  Her friends at St Pete recall the great times at the Penn Flora, which the Tuckers owned, with Bev and her husband hosting many a party there and caring for George after his first heart attack.  She was currently a member of our SUN Masters Team & swam with the Florida Aquatic Combined Team.  She had planned to swim in Perth, Australia at the FINA World Masters Championships this month with her Canadian Team, but it was not to be. Beverley, we will miss you and our Aquaquacking!

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Marilyn Belson Diane Berberian Alexis Biondi Jamie Biondi Joe Biondi Ellen Bowen Marianne Bradley Maria Buda O'Toole Joan Campbell Joyce Chiavetta Gladis Choueifati Bill Conlon Rosalind Corbo John Cornish	Patricia Crow Florence Delaney Robert Ditro Nancy Durstein Cheryl Forgang Patricia Frantz Arnaud Glacet Danielle Griffin Paul Giuliani Steven Hunt Allen Jones Clayton Keller Christine Kelly	Gary Laursen Betty Lorenzi Didier Malagies John Marzulli Louise Moran Steve Morris Dan Mullett Jerry Napp Paul Polgar Don Puchalski Roz Randall Marie Reed	Brian Rohrsen Elliott Schofield David Shawver Janet Shellenberger Linda Simpson Elspeth Smith Lora Spratt Kim Thinel Winnie Walter Peter Williams