Floren Varsity House Taking Shape

Brickwork was revealed on front side of the new Floren Varsity House only this week.

The side of the new varsity house facing Alumni Gym

The back of the varsity house overlooking baseball's Red Rolfe Field
The plowed field looks good enough to play on today.
An official artist's rendering of how the field will look when the building is completed. The original can be found here.

The plaque in the entry way to the home stands

With potential recruits in town, the plastic sheeting on a portion of the front of the new Floren Varsity House was removed just this week to give the hight school seniors a sense of how the building will look next fall. Also, the field was plowed so they can check out the state-of-the-art artificial surface. As noted earlier, the goal posts and end zone bleachers were left up to help recruits visualize the entire scene. (The photos can all can be supersized by clicking on them).

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I am not making this up.

A world record was set in the pole vault yesterday at the 38th annual Dartmouth Relays at Leverone Field House. From the Dartmouth release: "(Flo) Meiler, representing Green Mountain Athletic Club, cleared 6-11 on her first try in the women's pole vault, setting a master's world record for women age 70-74." (Italics are mine ;-)

Now, I think it's absolutely wonderful that 72-year-old Flo of Shelburne, Vt., was pole vaulting. And I wish I could pole vault 6-11. But my first reaction when I read this was that someone should call David Letterman because this is a guest he really should have on his show. My next reaction was to wonder just how many 70 to 74-year-old women are out there pole vaulting. Wow.

Speaking of the Dartmouth Relays, a certain Hanover High freshman finished second in the Tri-State mile Friday night. She was disappointed that only four of the six runners expected to participate showed up, but ran a good race was excited with the medal she won. When her coach asked if it was the first medal she'd won on the track, she cracked him up when she said she also won a medal in the "Grafton County One-Lapper," the popular race for tykes that is held on the final day of the Relays each year.