Riverside Boat Club 2017 ANNUAL REPORT

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MISSION STATEMENT

Riverside supports the attainment of its members’ rowing goals, from recreation to the highest level of international competition, and promotes the art and enjoyment of rowing by providing safe facilities, quality rowing equipment and coaching in a friendly, collaborative, social community.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Mission Statement 2 Table of Contents 3 President’s Letter 4 Operating Income and Expenses 5 Service & Community 6 Magazine Beach 6 Boston Public Schools Outreach 6 Head of the Q 6 Landscape Maintenance for DCR 7 Volunteer Report 8 Program Highlights 11 High Performance Group 11 Sculling 11 Men’s Sweep 13 Women’s Sweep 14 Masters 15 Boathouse Development 16 Thank you to Our Donors 18 Donor List 18 2017 Stripes Gala 21 2017 Board of Directors 22 Committee Leadership 23 Acknowledgements 24

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PRESIDENT’S LETTER Our goal is to increase our fundraising Dear Riverside members, alumni, friends base to include 100% of our membership and and family, expand fundraising beyond our membership Thank you for your volunteer service and to our alumni and other stakeholders and to support, your collaboration and your Riverside explore additional sources of revenue through spirit. sponsorship. We celebrate many accomplishments this year. Thank you for your commitment to Riverside. Go Stripes! • Engaging 37 new provisional and 20 new Sincerely, senior members and hundreds of volunteers Lynn R. Osborn • Collaborating with Cambridge Riverside Board President Neighborhood Association and Magazine Beach Partners on improving Magazine I would like to acknowledge our outgoing Beach Board Members. • Hosting Simmons College and the Seven Caro Gray Bosca has served as Captain since Sisters Regatta 2013 and will continue to assist the Engineering • Engaging a new scholastic rowing program Committee and support the new Captain in – welcome BC High transition. • Empowering the coaching committee to Neil Harrigan has served as Trustee since design and manage coaching for sculling 2015 and will continue on the Development, and masters sweep Design and Engineering Committees as we • Raising over $125k in the Campaign for move forward with Slab and Dock replacement. Riverside Alex Bailey has served as Secretary since • Riverside Stripes competing and winning 2015 and will continue to support the Board in locally, regionally, nationally and training the new secretary and assisting with internationally volunteer recruitment. • Training and sending seven HPG athletes to represent the USA at worlds To thank our returning Board members: • Winning the HOCR points trophy • Trey Chandler, Vice President. • Carrie Main, Treasurer The Board and Committees are continuing • Liane Keister, Trustee implementation of the strategic plan for • Karen Chenausky, Trustee Riverside’s future by recruiting, engaging and mentoring emerging Riverside leaders and And welcome to our new board members: moving forward with our aspirations to upgrade • Evan Bailey: Captain our facilities, enhance our program strategy • Ashley Amos: Secretary and supporting our coached programs. • Pete Morelli: Trustee

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OPERATING INCOME & EXPENSES

Income 2017 Operating Income $334,733 Fleet Sales, $27,432 , 8%

Rack, Locker & Key, $31,053 , 9%

Head of the Charles Party, $9,482 , 3%

Trailer Fees, $9,757 , 3%

Simmons & BC High, Regattas, $11,922 , $33,200 , 10% 4%

Member Dues, $211,888 , 63%

Expenses

Regattas, 2017 Operating Expense $325,422 Scholarship & $5,705 , 2% Trailer Travel, $5,239 , Donations, $1,750 , 1% Development, $7,072 , 2% 2% Social Events, $1,285 , 0% Erg & Oar Purchase, $10,703 , 3% Coach Salary, $79,096 , 24%

Fleet Rental, $10,191 , 3%

Fundraising, $16,644 , 5%

Building & Grounds, $17,316 , 5%

Operating Expense, $34,450 , 11% Rigger, Fleet Fleet Purchase, Maintenance & $51,237 , 16% Insurance, $39,427 , 12% Administrative Expense, $45,307 , 14%

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SERVICE & COMMUNITY Collaborating with Program Manager Melissa Luc, we designed a series of activities about Magazine Beach transportation that were complementary to the curriculum. Over the course of 4 sessions, the In collaboration with the Cambridgeport Riverside volunteers helped students explore Neighborhood Association, Riverside is an the strengths and weaknesses of different enthusiastic supporter of the restoration of modes of transportation in different contexts. Magazine Beach and the renovation of its As the final project, students created pop-ups historic powder house. that illustrated a place they wanted to visit and The club again hosted the association’s annual the mode of transportation they would use to park fundraiser in 2017. Its members contributed get around that place. in force to the association’s efforts to remove The students greatly enjoyed building the pop invasive plants from the park’s wetlands. ups and Melissa Luc has welcomed Riverside to Riverside has been an active member of the lead similar programming in the future. This neighborhood-based stakeholders’ committee initial pilot highlighted opportunities to improve advising the Massachusetts Department of the structure and planning of the activities but Conservation and Recreation and the City of shows great promise as a volunteer project to Cambridge on the design for park’s restoration, be replicated in BPS or the Cambridge schools. which has reached 85 percent completion. With Overall, the program included 54 hours of the project moving toward the implementation volunteer time which allowed us to provide stage, the committee recently incorporated as support for each of the six third grade classes— a 501C3 non-profit organization, whose board reaching a total of 78 students. In the future, includes a Riverside member. creating programs with weekend or after school components will likely increase membership Boston Public Schools Outreach involvement, as the daytime schedule was limiting to some members who expressed This summer, 4 volunteers from Riverside interest in the program. designed and led a series of enrichment activities in the Boston Public Schools Summer Early Head of the Q Focus program. The volunteer effort was created as a way to address the club’s need for “public The Head of the Quinobequin is a juniors-only, access” without straining the infrastructure singles only, head race that takes place on the of the club. The Summer Early Focus program Charles the Sunday before HOCR. (Quinobequin supports upcoming 1st through 3rd graders is a Native American name for the Charles River.) who need additional literacy help. The Riverside The 3200m race begins at the Eliot Bridge and volunteers focused on enrichment activities for ends at the North Beach Street Bridge. the 3rd grade classes, which were exploring how Long-time Riverside member Kate Sullivan bikes work and designing a bike-friendly city. has been on the regatta committee for two

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years and helps with the logistics of getting and started a structural porch repair that will 100+ juniors in singles safely through the race be completed in early 2018. course. The race committee is made up of representatives from Union, RBC, CBC, and CRI and is a great collaborative effort. This year Riverside was represented by Kevin McDonnell, Kate Sullivan, and Molly Hamrick. The Riverside Juniors have been participating in the regatta since it began in 2014. This year we had a record 21 entries for the RBC Juniors, getting several top placements in the U17 and U19 categories. The RBC Juniors are incredibly lucky to have such a supportive boat club behind them. This year we were able to use all seven of the club singles and ten members lent us their private singles as well! HOTQ is a very special event and if you are around the boathouse next year the Sunday before HOCR, look out for the ever-growing fleet of juniors launching for the race.

Landscape Maintenance for DCR

The Building and Grounds Committee had over 15 work parties in 2015, 9 for outdoor projects and 6+ for indoor cleaning and maintenance. Outdoor projects included lawn maintenance, shoreline and property clean-up, aeration of the lawns, and trees assessed and pruned (in conjunction with DCR). In all these efforts, we have had strong participation by both senior and provisional members. These efforts underscore a membership that takes pride in our boathouse as a symbol of our heritage and standards of excellence. The B&G team also oversaw several repairs and maintenance projects. The team led a major functional overhaul of our dock system

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VOLUNTEER REPORT with several participating in the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association (CNA). Regardless Riverside Boat Club is an entirely volunteer-run of residency, many club members are actively organization. In 2017, members collectively logged involved in the neighborhood’s larger initiative over 2000 hours of service to support and maintain to revitalize the parkland between the Magazine the club, in addition to the hundreds of volunteer Beach playing fields and the boathouse. The club hours our board of directors invests each year. has organized members to participate in multiple Volunteers spent over 400 hours this year Charles River Cleanups, attend Magazine Beach cleaning the boathouse, work on the building work parties, and to help set up and attend the and docks, and taking care of the lawn and CNA Fall Fundraiser, which has been held at garden on our outdoor property. Another 250 Riverside for the last three years. hours were spent maintaining the Riverside fleet of club boats. However, the volunteer work wasn’t all just manual labor: members donated time to fundraise for the Riverside annual fund, plan and host social and community events, manage the Riverside newsletter and social media, and contribute to the Charles River and Cambridgeport community. Riverside volunteers support not just Riverside, but the Charles River rowing community as well. One of Riverside’s largest volunteer events of each year is hosting the Cromwell Cup Regatta, a 1000m race held in the powerhouse every July. This year, 39 clubs travelled to Cambridge from as far as Florida to participate in the event. Riverside volunteers also participate in supporting the Head of the Charles, as well as the Head of the Q, a youth- only sculling race that provides an opportunity for almost 150 juniors to race a single. In addition to volunteering their time to the club and the Charles River rowing community, Riverside members are actively engaged in community affairs: members spent over two hundred hours this year volunteering Riverside members volunteering with the Charles River in neighborhood-supporting activities. A Watershed Association, helping with wetland restoration at Magazine Beach number of members live in Cambridgeport,

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Breakdown of volunteer service by category

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Total time spent volunteering by each of Riverside’s coached teams

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS • LW4x: 7th • LM4x: 16th High Performance Group • LM2x: 16th Canadian Henley The High Performance Group is a co-ed year- • U23 M2x: 1st round training program, under the supervision • Senior M4x: 2nd of coaches Judith Vogel and Tom Keister, with • Women’s Champ 1x: 6th the goal of athletes representing their country • U23 Men’s 2-: 6th at Pan American Games, World Championships, • Senior LM2x: 6th and Olympic Games. Athletes compete in the World Cup II Spring Speed Orders, World Championship • LM2x: 10th Trials, and Fall Speed Orders in efforts to Spring Speed Order II either earn seats on the National Team through • LM2x: 1st invitation to the training center or through the • LW2x: 2nd Trials system. In addition to training and working Spring Speed Order I the HPG athletes are active participants in the • LM1x: 2nd-5th Riverside community, volunteering over 200 • LW1x: 3rd hours on a variety of projects. Sculling Data Points • Volunteer Hours: 200+ I’m pleased to report that 2017 was another • HPG athletes competing at 2017 World auspicious year for our sculling program, Championships: 6 with victories large and small all around the • HPG alumni competing at 2017 World globe! This year, we were fortunate to be led Championships: 7 by three incredible coaches, Sarah Baker, Dr. • First Olympic boat class qualified from HPG Karen Chenausky, and newcomer Cian Noone. since 2001 (LM2x) These three kept us all focused on constant improvement, even on those early April and late Race Results October days when we’d rather be in sitting by Head of the Charles the fire and drinking hot chocolate. • Women’s Champ Lightweight 2x: 2nd Riverside came away from the 2017 Head of the • Men’s Champ Lightweight 1x: 2nd, 4th Charles with the Points Trophy yet again, due in • DCW4x: 2nd significant part to the success of our scullers • Women’s Champ 2x: 3rd across boat classes and age groups. It’s safe to • Men’s Champ Lightweight 4+: 5th say that our scullers are putting the “nasty” in • Women’s Club 1x: 12th dynasty! Contributing to the points total were • Women’s Champ 1x: 21st Andrew Hashway winning the Masters Single, World Championships Pete Morelli and Sean Wolf winning the Masters

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Double, Bryna McConarty placing second in the Canada, Israel, and the Czech Republic (or Senior Masters Single, Tina Vandersteel Cresotti Czechia, for you nation-nomenclature fans). The and Alexis Sneff Belakovskiy coming in second World Masters Regatta was held in Bled, Czech in the Masters Double, Jim McGaffigan placing Republic this year, with Catherine Widgery as third in the Grand Masters Single, Sarah White our sole representative. She cleaned up, though: and Ashley Lanfer placing third in the Masters she got seven golds in the F Double, G Four, Double, President Emeritus Mike Farry placing F Quad, G Quad, F Eight, G Eight, and Mixed fourth in the Masters Single, Catherine Widgery G Eight. That has to be some sort of record! placing fourth in the Veterans Single, former Further on in the year, Ilana Zieff represented President (FP) Igor Belakovskiy and Tom Keister Riverside and the USA at the Maccabiah Games, placing fifth in the Masters Double, Niles Kuronen also known as the Jewish Olympics, in Tiberias, placing eighth in the Masters Single, President Israel. Ilana ended up with two golds (the four Lynn Osborn and FP Patricia Belden placing and quad) and two silvers (the pair and double), 11th in the Senior Masters Double, FP (I told you running against competition from Israel, Russia, there was a pattern!) Rob White coming in 12th France, and the UK. At Canadian Henley Masters, in the Grand Masters Single, John Tracey placing Sean Wolf came in fourth in the Lightweight 17th in the same event, Will Allen placing 17th Single, Nik Kurmakov came in fourth in the in the Masters Single, and Vice President Trey Masters G Single, and then those two teamed Chandler coming in 24th in the Club Single, in up to win the Masters D Double. Alexis Sneff his HOCR sculling debut. Several of our scullers Belakovskiy and Ilana Zieff took second in the also combined with reps from other programs to AA-B Double, and then Alexis and her husband capture second place in the Mixed Eight Director’s Igor also came in second in the Mixed AA-B Challenge event, including Jim McGaffigan, Ilana Double. Last but not least, there was also the Zieff, Andrew Hashway, Catherine Widgery,US Masters Nationals this year, hosted in Oak John Tracey, Tina Vandersteel Cresotti, and Ridge, TN. Catherine Widgery also represented Alexis Sneff Belakovskiy. Any time your club’s us well there, garnering gold medals in the F performance turns a results recap into a run-on Double, E Eight, and G Four, and silver medals sentence, you know you have something special. in the D Eight, F Eight, and F Quad. Congratulations to everyone who raced at HOCR, That’s an impressive collection of results, which was surprisingly warm and calm the entire which speaks not only to our collective ability as weekend. If we can have a replay of that whole scullers, but also to the cohesive and supportive weekend just as it was next year, and many years environment of Riverside Boat Club. Having the thereafter, there will be a lot of smiling faces. ability to attend sculling sessions and receive While the Head was a capstone for so many of advice and attention from our excellent coaching our athletes, it built upon a successful summer staff—with no fee above normal club dues—is and fall season that our coaches planned all truly an exceptional benefit of belonging to this along. It’s not every year that we go international, stellar community. I consider myself fortunate but this year we went, and went big, going to to be a member in such a thriving environment!

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Heading into 2018, we’re not looking forward to avoid racing each other in the early rounds). slogging away on the erg until the river thaws… After several days of practice, waiting, with but we all know that’s what’s coming. We can’t nerves and anticipation building, Wednesday wait to get back out on the water with our finally arrived and race day was here. The friends, teammates, and coaches! Thames Challenge 8+ raced at 4:05 pm against Mike Farry the Tideway Scullers, which was one of the more competitive boats in the event. Tideway rowed Men’s Sweep a very good race, and were faster on the day. They proved to be an extremely strong crew, After a second consecutive win in the Club who won on Thursday as well and were a canvas 8+ event at HOCR, and a 5th place overall from progressing to the Semi-Final on Friday. finish when including the college 2V/3V’s also Riverside’s 4+ drew Stratford-Upon-Avon entered the event, Riverside’s men’s sweeps in the first round. Since Riverside had already program decided to up the ante and undertake a raced a qualifying event, should they win, they campaign to compete at the prestigious Henley would go right to quarter-finals, or top 8 crews. Royal Regatta. The group met with coach Jeff Stratford Upon Avon was able to put their boat Forrester in November and decided to take an ahead by “a canvas,” which is literally a couple 8+ and a 4+, so a group of 12 rowers and two of feet at best. While the team was gutted, no coxswains. The group undertook winter training one—neither rower nor hungover supporting and selected boats in April. Once lineups had teammate—could have asked for a better, or a been set, men’s sweeps ran scrimmages with gutsier race. WPI, Williams, and Harvard in preparation for Back home, Jeff was wrangling a larger group their trip abroad. of U23 rowers than usual, in order to carry a full Satisfied with the training, and with the boats summer roster while the year-round guys were feeling good, the team flew out on June 20, to abroad. fit in the better part of the week training on the Their best results were as follows: course. While the 8+ was pre-qualified into the 32-crew tournament for the Thames Challenge Independence Day Regatta Results Cup, the four was required to race on Friday of • 2nd place: Men’s Intermediate 8+ that week to earn a spot at the regatta into a • 2nd Place: Men’s Open 8+ smaller 16-boat event. On Friday morning, they • 3rd Place: Men’s Intermediate 2- laid down an excellent time trial, finishing in the top three which not only qualified them for Canadian Henley Results the regatta, but also earned them the right to • 2nd Place: U23 Lightweight 4- race as a “selected crew” alongside of the eight • 2nd Place: Lightweight 8+ (selection is a type of seeding, in which selected • 4th Place: U23 Lightweight 2x crews, based on their qualifications and or race results, are set up so these potentially top crews A busy summer concluded, the team looked

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forward to returning to the Charles and putting club in years. The second 4+ finished a strong in some hard training and racing on the home 15th place overall, which was good enough to course. This fall men’s sweeps had the largest guarantee an automatic entry for next year. active training group in years, with over 20 All-in-all a very solid weekend of racing this rowers rowing, testing, and competing for year for Men’s Sweeps as we hit on our goals of seats at this year’s Head of the Charles Regatta. being the fastest club in each event we entered, After promising results at each of the Head of and to continue to demonstrate the viability and the Kevin’s and sweeping all entered events at competitiveness of club rowing opportunities the Textile River Regatta, we know we had the outside of college or national team endeavors. depth to perform well in each event we entered. After some down time, we are back to training Going into the season, we carried over on the ergs for a long winter before looking to automatic bids from the Club 8+ and Club 4+ perform well in domestic summer club racing events due to top half finishes in each. Last in 2018. year, the Club 8+ finished 5th overall in the event (winning the Club Special Gold Medal for Women’s Sweep top actual club finish), and the Club 4+ finished 6th overall (finishing as the 3rd club). The Open women’s sweep team trains in After some competitive seat racing, we ended both sweep and sculling boats for open and up with a very fast Club 8+, and two very fast intermediate races at the local, regional and club 4s. Our goal this year was to not only win national level. They are coached by Nikolay the club special medals for each event, but also Kurmakov. This years squad was one of the largest attempt to win each event outright – this would in recent years, with over 20 rowers on the year- mean beating collegiate 2/3V’s who have been round roster, and 10 U23 rowers joined the team entered in the club events for years as spill over for the summer racing season. This year, the team from the Championship events. We also wanted competed at the Independence Day Regatta, to qualify our second 4+ for an automatic entry Cromwell Cup, Canadian Henley, Heads of the for next year. Kevin, and the Head of the Charles (see results The Club 8+ ended up finishing 3rd overall, below), with small groups also participating in only 10 seconds behind the winner BU and 6 Club Nationals, the Head of the Fish, and the seconds behind Harvard, and claimed the club CBC Invitational. As the fall season wound down special gold medal for the 3rd year in a row. and winter training approached, the team met to In doing so, the 8+ improved on last year’s 5th set a winter training plan, with goals in 2018 of overall finish, and closed the gap to the winner competing in more scrimmages with local teams, from ~50 seconds to 10. and winning at least one event at Club Nationals The real highlight was the first Club 4+ entry, or the Independence Day Regatta. which dominated the event winning by 10 seconds, to claim first overall placing in the club Results: 4+ event, which had not been won by an actual Independence Day Regatta

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• Open 4+: 2nd, 4th, 6th women racing at the Head of the Fish. In between, • Intermediate 4+: 2nd, 3rd, 6th we competed together at Derby Sweeps & • Intermediate 8+: 2nd Sculls, Masters Regionals, Narragansett Sweeps • Open 8+: 3rd & Sculls, Canadian Henley, Textile River Regatta, Head of the Charles, and of course Cromwell Cromwell Cup Cup and the HOK series. • Open 8+: 1st, 2nd Sprint season began on a high note at Derby, • Open 2-: 2nd where we swept the mixed team boats, finishing the day with a victory in the mixed 4x followed Canadian Henley by first in the mixed 8+. Thirteen gold medals • Senior 8+: 3rd in the space of five minutes left us with many • Senior 4-: 3rd, 5th smiles. Lots of medals followed later in the • U23 8+: 4th season, capped by a dominant performance • U23 4-: 3rd, 6th at Canadian Henley Masters, where we were joined by several Riverside masters scullers. Head of the Charles: Many team members made the podium multiple • Club 8+: 30th times, earning Riverside the most medals and • Club 4+: 44th regatta points – the first time we achieved this • Light 2x: 11th goal in Canada. The best race was at the end of • Champ 8+: 33rd the regatta, with our mixed 8+ racing head to head with Don in the next lane and eeking out a Masters split-second victory. Head season blasted off with the Textile River The Masters are a mixed team of men and Regatta, with medals in singles, doubles, pair, women, ranging in age from the late 20s to 70s. fours and eights. Especially notable were the We welcome skilled, competitive rowers (and men’s Grandmaster 4+, which won with more coxswains!) to participate in local, regional and than a minute to spare, and yet another gold national regattas. We focus on sweep rowing, medal performance by our mixed 8+ with a but we also practice and compete in sculling. completely different lineup from our victories Many of us work out regularly with the team 3-4 earlier in the year. At the Head of the Charles, the times a week, but we also welcome other club men entered four sweep crews, with one for the members and various coaching staff to join us women. All of them qualified to return next year, occasionally for practice and regattas. We also when we will probably enter the lottery for some invite back some alumni for big events like the additional seats. And our mixed 8+ collected Head of the Charles. The team was coached in fifth-place medals in a star-studded field. We 2017 by Cian Noone and Karen Chenausky. also organized Riverside’s “Great 8” of sculling The year started with the men going to San champions, which placed second. It’s good to Diego for the Crew Classic and finished with the see scullers holding one oar now and then!

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BOATHOUSE DEVELOPMENT bank has subsided and the floors in the two upstream bays have collapsed to the point that they present operational and safety concerns. Repairing Riverside’s Boathouse - While Northeastern University addressed the A Phased Program subsidence in the original downstream bay by leveling the floor with asphalt, it also shows Riverside’s aspirations for renovating and signs of movement. expanding our boathouse entail design, financing and permitting challenges that will Under the Engineering Committee’s take a number of years to complete. Meanwhile, direction, we have carried out soil borings to our 1912 boathouse continues to age and there identify the type of slab support system that are safety and operational concerns that need would be required. Based on that information, to be addressed now. The good news is that we are obtaining design and cost estimates the current design of our aspirational plans do and establishing a timeline for the project, not preclude investing in our existing facility. which will also entail a new rack system that accepts the higher grade of the floor while The board is approaching these repairs in preserving the number of spaces to the extent increments reflecting the urgency of the work feasible. This project is planned for 2018 and and our capacity to fund them. The Engineering will involve removing boats in stages. The Committee led by board member Neil Harrigan floor in the downstream eights’ bay addition and Building and Grounds Committee chair remains secure. Costs estimates are in the Carson Burrington are defining the projects range of $150,000. and overseeing their execution. The next major incremental improvement is We started with restructuring the ramp and replacement of the docks. We have bids and dock system in 2015, a $240,000 project. The are working through the details required for dock, attached to the boathouse porch by its permitting, demolition and staging with the ramps, was pulling the porch away from the expectation of installing new docks before the building. The solution was to support the 2018 season. The project is expected to cost ramps independently with their own pilings $150,000. and to anchor the dock to pilings, so that its movement is independent of the ramps. New In addition to these projects, the club will pilings were also placed under the porch for carry out smaller-scale repairs and upgrades stability. as necessary. These include repointing the boathouse chimney, adding a handrail to the Next in the program is the replacement front steps, and upgrading interior lighting. of the boathouse’s original (1912) slab floors. These were laid on the river bank. The river The funding sources for these projects are

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the building and grounds line item in the club’s that facilities projects exceed what member operating budget, and, since the costs exceed fees can support, they will be funded by our the amounts budgeted over the next three reserve account. The principal sources for years, we will need to dip into our facilities the facilities reserve account are charitable reserve account. Our approach reflects the gifts contributed to our annual appeal and at club’s philosophy that members’ dues, in Riverside’s Stripes Gala. addition to supporting our annual operating budget, include an annual contribution to Thank you for your continued support for maintaining the boathouse. To the extent Riverside!

We have all gained weight thanks to Anne-Marie’s devastating cupcakes

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THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS $500-$999 Patricia Belden Riverside expresses its deepest gratitude to Janice Bickley all the donors who contributed during 2017. Caro Gray-Bosca We are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, Karen Chenausky and your gift supports Riverside’s programs, Paul Dale boathouse, and future. Thank you. Michael Farry Thomas Friel $10,000-$30,000 Christine Higgins Anonymous Mary Higgins Maria Lane $5,000-$9,999 Renee Lanza Jill and Todd Milne James Leech Lynn Osborn Sue Pasieka Jon Skillman $2,500-$4,999 Jerome Zadow Kate Ackerman Alexandra and Evan Bailey $250-$499 Tom Brady Gijs Hoogerwerf Lisa Kunze and Jeff Shafer Helen Fremont Thomas Lowe Severine Imbert de Smirnoff Kevin McDonnell Peter Morelli Seymour A Danberg $1,000-$2,499 Cornelius Harrigan Timothy Bond John B Tracey Ernest Cook Michael Bannister Chris Daly Kathleen Maire Sullivan Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Doug Brubaker Richard Garver Michael Floyd Timothy Harris Monica Marois Janice Hayes-Cha Jennifer Wawrzonek Sacchetti Steve McKiernan Thomas Chandler Anita Verheul and Andrew O’Brien Paul Heimlicher David Wiedaseck Ed Frankenberry Charles Wu Jeffrey Forrester

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Joe Hanna Christopher Dyke Claire Anderson Ranae Grant John Owens Hayley Greenberg John A. Yasaitis Riley Hall Ashley Amos Joshua Harvey Courtney Carrabino Nikolay Kurmakov Richard S. Emmel Sara Leach Daniel Jenkins Craig Levy Ander Pedersen Richard Livingston Evan Meisler David Lund Lauren Ayers Kiely MacMahon Frank G. Bane, DMD Carrie Main Victoria Barnes John Nichols Igor Belakovskiy Francis O’Leary J. Christopher Cutler Samantha Polak Nicholas Daniloff Lidia Rosenbaum Chris Higgins Cherilyn Ruane Ashley Graves Lanfer Kathryn Ruderman Igor Lasic Kelly O’Leary Schultz Alexis Sneff Janice Stone Malchus L. Watlington Penelope Williams Sarah H. White Sean Wolf Elizabeth Zachos $100-$249 Ilana Zieff William Allen Victoria and Graham Barnes $50-$99 Sam Batchelor Carly Abarbanel Elizabeth Boghossian Adam Craft William Brown Carl Dister Jakub Buczek Kyle Fabel Catherine Casey Phillip Grisdela Katherine Cebry Brendan Harrington Hannah Chanatry Philip Henson Anne-Marie Chouinard Thomas Hudak Allan Dister Liane Malcos Keister and Thomas Keister

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THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS (cont.) Cecilia McKay A McLaughlin Tobin McGee Xavier Morelle Rachel Schlosser James Primes Peter Schmidt Steve Pyzik David Schultz Linda Reynard Martha Strom Bradford Sherman Rebekah Swartz Ally Sullivan Patricia Trzcinski Mats Terwiesch James Turk Frederick Thompson Giuliana Vetrano Robert Warming Kelley Woodacre Catherine Widgery Jill Wroten Jillian Zieff

Up to $49 Kelly Albanir Alexander Barat Elizabeth Bayne Callen Brooks Alex Brown Graeme Calloway Krzysztof Danielewicz Elizabeth Diamond Ethan Dimmock Brian Dister Jonathan Dwyer Hamilton Eng Michael Feldman Sarah Finkel Samantha Houston Sarah Ivey Anand Katragadda Matthew Kleber Niles Kuronen Stephen Margiotta

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2017 STRIPES GALA is one of perseverance, commitment, and determination to achieve one’s goals. On September 16, 2017 a total of 109 Riverside members, family, and friends came together for the 6th annual Riverside Stripes Gala. The evening featured both a silent and not-so- silent auction, a literal wagon of meat, and an opportunity to reflect on the accomplishments of the past while looking forward toward the future of Riverside. Nearly 70 total donations contributed toward a grand total of $72,000 for the club. An additional gift of $25,000 brought the total to $97,000, a remarkable commitment from the attendees to the health and future of Riverside. Cheri Ruane acted as Master of Ceremony for the evening and, along with Evan Bailey, presided over the live auction portion of the night.

Dr. Gevvie Stone

Donations from the event will support the renovation of the docks, repair of the concrete foundations of the boathouse, the expansion of the facilities and boat bays and to continued Cheri Ruane and Evan Bailey support of Riverside’s High Performance athletes. Thank you to all the participants, those that The evening’s guest speaker was 2016 Rio donated tickets, auction items, time and energy. The Olympic Silver Medalist and first year medical 2017 Gala was a smashing success and would not resident, Dr. Gevvie Stone. Dr. Stone spoke about have been possible without the dedicated efforts of her journey from high school crew, to Princeton the Gala Committee, led by Christine Higgins, whose University, on to the training to make the US hard work and planning made the event possible. National Team while simultaneously completing her MD at Tufts University. Her inspiring story

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2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Lynn Osborn, President Trey Chandler, Vice President Caro Gray Bosca, Captain Carrie Main, Treasurer Alex Bailey, Secretary

Trustees: Neil Harrigan Liane Malcos Keister Karen Chenausky

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COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP

Riverside Committees and Board Liaisons

Chair Vice Chair Board Liaison Kunze - 1990s Alumni - TBD - 2000s Trey Chandler TBD - 2010s Annual Report David Demres Renee Lanza Ashley Amos (incl. Volunteer Summary)

Assistant Treasurer Kelly Albanir Victoria Getz Carrie Main B & G Carson Burrington - Pete Morelli By-Laws Mike Farry - Liane Malcos Keister Captains Evan Bailey Caro Gray Bosca Evan Bailey Captains' Subcommittee - Beatrice Sims - Evan Bailey Equipment Coaching Kevin McDonnell Igor Belakovskiy Karen Chenausky Communications Amanda Milad Doug Brubaker Ashley Amos Community David Lund Dick Garver Trey Chandler Cromwell Regatta Ashley Amos Libby Boghossian Karen Chenausky Development Lynn Osborn Pete Morelli Pete Morelli Development Subcommittee - Renee Lanza Neil Harrigan Pete Morelli Engineering Development Subcommittee - Dick Garver Neil Harrigan Pete Morelli Facilities Development Subcommittee - Pete Morelli Igor Belakovskiy Lynn Osborn Finance Development Subcommittee - Pete Morelli Mike Farry Lynn Osborn Programs Fundraising Anita Verheul + Tolga Durak + Lynn Osborn (incl. Gala) Christine Higgins Don Dickison History & Archives Dick Garver Julie Seifert Ashley Amos Insurance, Security Chris Hawthorne Carrie Main and Risk Management IT Ed Frankenberry Dino Konstantopoulos Carrie Main Membership Trey Chandler Linda Reynard Trey Chandler Social Graeme Calloway Alex Barat Trey Chandler

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dick Garver Libby Boghossian Thank you to everyone who helped make this Mike Farry report, and to all our Riverside family who made Tolga Durak 2017 a great success. Our special thanks to: Don Dickison Julie Seifert Lynn Osborn Dino Konstantopoulos Trey Chandler Linda Reynard Caro Gray Bosca Alex Barat Carrie Main Cheri Ruane Alex Bailey Naomi Walker Neil Harrigan Jaclyn Youngblood Liane Malcos Keister Karen Chenausky David Demres Kelly Albanir Carson Burrington Mike Farry Evan Bailey Beatrice Sims Kevin McDonnell Amanda Milad David Lund Ashley Amos Dick Garver Pete Morelli AnitaVerheul Christine Higgins Dick Garver Chris Hawthorne Ed Frankenberry Graeme Calloway Renee Lanza Victoria Getz Igor Belakovskiy Doug Brubaker

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