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by Liz Fleming '76

Bob Dylan may have said it best..."The times they are a'changin'."

Budgets are tighter, staffs are lighter and the hours at our disposal are shorter but we still have to find ways to make things work. It's a challenge and an opportunity.

Can we work smarter, cheaper and faster but still deliver the same product - a publication that connects an enthusiastic - and ever-growing - alumni and promotes an energetic and dynamic young university? We think so, but we'll have to make a few changes.

 Liz Fleming

Liz Fleming

One of those changes was the decision to publish on-line to reduce our printing and mailing costs for this issue. The vast majority of us are electronically savvy so we hope we've made a decision that will work. It's our plan to remain an on-paper publication most of the time, but do let us know what you think of this e-version of TrenT. We'd like to hear
from you.

On another less prosaic and perhaps more poetic note, I have a memory I'd like to share with you. This year, during Head of the Trent weekend, my husband Jamie and his buddies managed to reassemble a varsity rowing crew that had last rowed together in 1979 for a come-back race against a number of other alumni boats (see the photo of the boys in green below). Twenty-one years later, a few pounds heavier and considerably wiser than they were in their university days, that stalwart crew rowed its way to victory and a passle of medals to hang around their necks.

It was a magic moment.

Dan Coholan '77, Rod Matheson '76 and Jamie Fleming '76 were proud recipients of special recognition medals at Head of the Trent. Thank you Trent Rowing Club for the "magic moment".

It would have been easier to stand around on the shore, lift a few brews and reminisce about how good they used to be - but those guys chose to get back on the water. After the race, as they stood together on the shore, sweaty, tired, and incredibly pleased with themselves, more than a few vowed to find their way back to regular rowing, to rediscover that old enthusiasm.

I hope they will, because there's nothing sweeter than an old love rekindled and no better place than Head of the Trent to set it ablaze. Why don't you come back next year and see what embers are still glowing?


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