Class Notes

SWIMMING MEET-UP: Pictured in the photograph by Georg Nadorff ’85, ’87 (MS) are (front row, left to right) David Hunt ’80, Sally Fischbeck ’73, James Pawelczyk ’82, John (Jack) Kennell ’82, Anne Dean; (second row) John Kruse ’82, ’89M (PHD), ’90M (MD), Georg, Coach Boomer (holding Rocky), Bob Walker, Christine Eichelberger, Maureen Delaney, Debra Kraemer, Jackie Israel; (third row) Lisa Ring, William Ring ’83, ’85W (MS), Clare Westropp Evancie ’76, Harry Falk ’76, ’77S (MBA), Sol Israel, James Eichelberger ’83, ’87M (MD), ’93M (Flw), William Ebsary ’81, Mark Delaney ’82, Jeffrey Hirsch ’86; (back row) Deena Crossmore, Kevin Uy ’87, ’93S (MBA), Edward Crossmore ’69, John Evancie ’75, Rick Boomer, and David Drummond ’82. Also attending were Robert Farmer ’82 and Ken Witterholt ’82.

Alumni of the Yellowjacket swimming and diving program gathered to honor Coach William (Buzz) Boomer, who coached both men’s teams from 1962 to 1990 (as well as men’s soccer and track in the 1960s).

Former University swimmers, a diver, team managers, and their partners gathered to celebrate and honor professor emeritus of athletics and recreation William (Buzz) Boomer ’63W (EdM) at the Vermont home of Maureen and Mark Delaney ’82 in May.

Boomer, an All-American soccer player as a student at Springfield College, served as coach for three different sports at Rochester: men’s soccer, 1964–69; assistant varsity coach for field events with the men’s track program, 1962–69; and men’s swimming and diving, 1962–90.

Bob Walker ’75 and Sol Israel ’77 write that swimming and diving were sports that Coach Boomer “had never participated in before—becoming a highly innovative, inspirational, and successful coach until his retirement in 1992.” Remarkably, Boomer “went on to coach numerous Olympic swimmers and become one of the leading authorities in the world in the development of the sport.”

Former swimmers, divers, and their families initiated the William (Buzz) Boomer Endowment for Swimming, formally established in 2008 to support the Rochester men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs, as well as the recreation program, which Boomer led from 1970 to 1992.