Orienteer Kansas newsletter -- The OREAD, January 2000

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OREAD -- January 2000

The OREAD is the unofficial e-mail newsletter of Orienteer Kansas. There is also an OREAD home page at http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/field/7306. Both the home page and the e-mail newsletter are edited by Michael Eglinski (meglin@juno.com).

COMING EVENTS

January 23 (Sunday) Possum Trot O' Club is hosting an event at Burr Oak Woods (on the east side of Kansas City). Registration begins at noon and first starts are at 1. Dick Luckerman is the meet director (816-229-5581).

February 12 (Saturday) PTOC is hosting an event at Monkey Mountain State Park (east of Kansas City).

February ?? (actual date is to be announced) OK will host an informal practice event at Woodridge or Clinton State Park. Look for details in the next OREAD. Info is available from meglin@juno.com.

March 11-12 St Louis O' Club will host an A-meet.

March 31-April 2, the US Short Course O' Champs will take place in Ohio (OCIN is the host).

April 15-16, the US Relay Champs are being held in Massachusetts. MORE INFO ON THE RELAYS FOLLOWS.

ORIENTEER KANSAS ORIENTEERING SUITS

We are arranging to order O' suits from Compass Needle. Jeannie Walsh (an orienteer from Up North Orienteers in New Hampshire) runs Compass Needle. Jeannie has made suits for a number of O' clubs.

The suits will be in blue-black-white and have the same design as our last order. The suits will be made out of a supplex-type material.

Each piece (short sleeve top, long sleeve top, or pants) will cost $35. The prices will go up later this spring. So, you can save a few bucks by placing an order soon.

Here is how it will work...Compass Needle will have the OK design on file. Anyone who wants a suit will order directly from CN. To order, you need to send CN a number of measurements. For directions on what measurements to send and where to send your payment, contact Orienteer Kansas' club president, Mary Jones (at maprunner@juno.com).

RELAY TEAMS

OK needs people who are interested in being on a relay team or helping out as a "manager." The last two years we have had two teams at the relay champs (near Seattle in '98 and Philadelphia in '99). This year's relays are near Boston on April 15-16.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING ON AN OK RELAY TEAM...contact the club prez and let her know of your interest. The prez is Mary Jones (maprunner@juno.com). Even if you are not yet certain you can make the trip up to New England, let Mary know of your interest.

EVENT REPORTS -- KANSAS CHAMPS AND POSSUM TROT

OK and PTOC pulled off a succesful weekend of orienteering on December 4-5.

OK hosted the Kansas Champs at Woodridge. Despite horrible weather (cold and rain) we had a good turnout, including a girl scout group from Nebraska and a Junior ROTC group from Kansas City. We also were lucky enough to have some of the absolute best orienteers in the country at the event -- Mikell Platt and Sharon Crawford wrote the record books as far as US orienteering goes. Of course, OKers are not awe struck by good orienteers...OK's own Mark Everett smoked the course and beat Mikell by several minutes.

The next day was time for the third annual Possum Trot -- a mass start long distance O' event. The weather was, as usual, part of the story. It was cool and snowy! The course was long and tough. Mikell and Sharon showed their class by winning the men's and women's categories.

More detailed coverage of these two events is on the web. Go to the OK discussion forum (a link from http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/field/7306 ) and look under the category called "course review." Also, take a look at the PTOC page at http://member.aol.com/PTOClub/home.html (follow the link to results and special events).

BEST OF LUCK TO RAYMOND, MAGNUS AND SANNA

In the last couple of years, OK has been lucky to host some temporary Kansans -- Raymond (from England) and Magnus and Sanna Wallenborg (from Sweden). In December, all three of our friends went back home. OK wishes all of them the best of luck and we look forward to seeing you in the future.

-- Michael Eglinski (meglin@juno.com), January 10, 2000

Answers

It ain't great news for the Heartlands: sanctioning for the proposed SLOC "A" meet was voted down, 3-3 (apparently a tie isn't good enough). Steve Shannonhouse, Mikell Platt and Bruce McAllister cast votes in favor of sanctioning while Paul Regan, Julie Weeks, and Tom Hollowell voted against. The fact that the sanctioning request came so late in the game was probably the decisive factor, but it was not the only factor.

-- Swampfox (mikell@sprynet.com), January 11, 2000.

You can buy imitation OK suits right off street merchants in downtown Lawrence. I think they're made in China out of some really cheap material (like tissue paper probably). Anyway, those things are not licensed and the OK logos they're using without our permission end up costing us money. Can't we do something to stop this?

When I was back in the Homeland recently I was walking around town and would see these young kids wearing their "OK suits" around, hanging out on the streetcorners trying to look cool like "Yeah, we're OK members". I even saw someone wearing an imitation OK fleece. That really pissed me off! You should have to earn the right to wear these things.

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), January 18, 2000.


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