Re: [CR]Nancy Burghart, national champion from Jackson Heights

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:13:13 -0400
From: "Edward Albert" <Edward.H.Albert@hofstra.edu>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, <MSilver@iso.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Nancy Burghart, national champion from Jackson Heights


Since eagle eyed Mr. Silver spotted the material on Nancy Burghart, I replied but left much out. Thinking about it, since I did chime in, it now seems a good time to introduce it. As I mentioned Nancy is going to be inducted into the US Bicycling Hall of Fame at a Dinner being held in New Brunswick, New Jersey in October. Some of you may know that both stalwart list member Joe Bender Zanoni and I are both on the Board of Directors of this organization. I have held off posting info about this insofar as the Hall has been homeless (physically) for some time but will, I hope, have one in the near future. As you all know, our own Ted Ernst was inducted into the Hall last year. Once the Hall is ensconced in permanent digs I am hoping to solicit the considerable knowledge and skill of the list in helping to expand its collection of material related to the history of U.S. bicycle racing. Especially as it relates to club histories and the stories of individual racers.
      In any case, my purpose now it to invite all of you to attend the October festivities. There will be a famous speaker (whose name I am unsure I am able to annunce quite yet). It would be really wonderful if we could put together a table of CR folks. This is something we should really support even though inductees are not always within our timeline.
   For example, another of this years inductees will be Dale Stetina who I guess, now that I think about it, raced within the timeframe of the CR list. The date of the dinner is October 20th and I will say more when tickets become available. If anyone is interested in more information please contact me off list. Edward Albert Chappaqua, NY, USA