FreeTeam.Org -- a defunct domain that used to be in the network, along with SportSurf.net, since 1994

The Internic's Org domain is for non-profit organizations. .Org is a worldwide top level domain designated for miscellaneous entities not fitting under Net, Edu, Gov nor Com.

Non-Profit Status

FreeTeam.Org is slated to become a non-profit organization, to be incorporated in one of the States of the U.S. as a 501(c)(3) entity. This incorporation process should occur in 1999 -- but it didn't. We are resolving issues on the FreeTeam.Org charter, original by-laws, early roles and leader members.

Relationship between FreeTeam.Org and SportSurf.Net

• FreeTeam.Org's cousin is SportSurf.Net, founded in 1994.

  The Net domain is for entities and computers that represent part of the Internet's infrastructure.

  Net domains were originally intended for use by Network Information Centers, Network Operations Centers, and administrative computers (such as a name server) and network node computers.

• The Net within SportSurf.Net is apparent in the hosting of hundreds of email discussion groups.

  SportSurf.Net serves as a collaborative, community message hub with top-notch bandwidth utilization and deployments. Many communication opportunities for input, feedback and grass-roots participation are fortified at the site. One aim is to better ideas, information, and participation in sports and related activities.

These Org and Net sites are not Commercial

Neither the non-profit organization, FreeTeam.Org, nor the network happening place, SportSurf.Net are commercial, for-profit, businesses. These efforts are hosted and maintained with altruistic reasons and motivations. These sites present places where re-cycled electrons collide from around the world, mingling folks from any domain (.edu, .gov, .org, .com and others) to sharpen ideas, messages, mediums, and even the masses, one-by-one basis if necessary.

Update:

Other old and gone domains are listed at Hub.SwimISCA.org. 

Bundle.com.

 

Going out to hold meetings about the budding SportSurf.net

News Media Alert and Invitation

Please pass along this message and pointer to others who might be interested.

April 26, 1998 - updated

Contact: Mark Rauterkus

Publisher, SportSurf.Net
108 S. 12th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203-1226 USA
mrauterkus@SportSurf.Net

Voice: 412-481-2540 - Eastern Time Daylight Only PLEASE
Cell: 412-720-0108 - When on the road

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E-books (Electronic Books) Technology Briefings and FREE SuperCard Concepts Visits Eastern US Cities

Open invitation. Everyone welcome to attend.

Past Tour Locations:
San Antonio, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Corolla, NC

Future Tour Locations:
New York City, Long Island, Hartford, Boston and Corolla, NC

PITTSBURGH, PA -- 1998: E-books present a fantastic solution to a wide audience of readers and content authors. Learn about E-books and discover why the FN E-book document type is well positioned to become a "killer-application" in 1998 and beyond. Furthermore, an in-depth discussions of the possible future acquisition and resulting setting FREE of the technical assets of SuperCard family of titles, is part of the agenda.

FootNotes is an internet-linked, interactive multimedia electronic publishing, authoring and delivery system target to the education sector.

Students and teachers can use point-and-click methods to create documents that engage the internet. These web-linked E-books with pages, chapters, index, glossary, citation references give access unlimited multimedia files. The client-side E-books can grab files on any local disk, CD, Syquest, Zip or network. The E-books remove most mysteries of downloading any FTP file or http page. The E-books also live-link to the user's Browser for direct URL connection.

FootNotes E-books are extendable by the addition of home-grown or third party plug-in modules. Supplied modules include an HTML Publisher, eMailer, Launcher and Browser-Assistant.

The Books are lockable by the author and the free player allows for unlimited distribution. Registered users get to deploy the "Send to Bookshop" menu to automatically publish on the internet.

The latest release includes better email, LiveLinks to any browser and unlimited use of graphics as links.

Future releases, very speculative at this point, center upon the possible acquisition of the technical assets that are now being sold by Allegiant Technologies, Inc -- that include SuperCard. SuperCard makes the core foundation to the FN E-books platform. The S.S.S. Trust has been established to accept donations for the possible acquisition and freeing of the code base to SuperCard.

Independent publisher, Mark Rauterkus, of Pittsburgh, Pa. is touring to present information on E-books and the upcoming release of an academic E-book authoring tool, FootNotes Mac.

Rauterkus' book-imprint, Sports Support Syndicate, produced more than 100 titles in the past 10 years. "We've abandoned all book production and associated costs of paper, ink, storage, shipping and returns. The transition to strictly digital delivery has been a bumpy."

In 1989 the SSS released books with computer-disk supplements. Those E-books failed to gain marketplace acceptance. "Publishers and teachers with valuable lessons materials have living the saga of content positioning, hitting all the stops: CDs, web sites, email responders, e-zines, discussion groups, hybrids and shareware. We are gearing for DVDs as well. But, by far, the most elegant, most compelling, and most astonishing process and tool suite centers around FootNotes E-books."

The half-day events are being held to convey an understand and future vision for the E-book framework to early adapters and cutting-edge publishers. Authors, independent publishers, educational technology leaders in school districts, college professors, webmasters and multimedia producers should be interested in these tools and insights. Furthermore, Mac users who have used SuperCard and HyperCard should have keen interested in the advantages of these publishing format options.

The entire FootNotes on-line user manual is 44 pages in length. It is simple, interactive and extendable. Junior High classrooms can master these documents right from the start. Quizzes, homework assignments and lesson plans can all fit into FootNotes E-books. The E-books make sense for an academic setting.

The official new-product release date from the USA publisher was set to occur in March, 1989. However, a digital version of SuperCard could not be provided for the bundle as exected. So, the FootNotes E-book program has been made available, but without the fanfare of a first release, yet. Nonetheless, school site license options are available.

FootNotes Mac trial version is posted to the web and FTP site for free downloads. The trial version is free and allows for E-book authoring with a restricted number of pages.

Only the paid version of FootNotes entitles web authors to utilize the built-in posting to the publicly accessible internet bookshelves. The E-book contents can be exported into HTML and posted to the web. Or, E-books can be put onto the internet with a special FTP location set-up for each author and their E-book users.

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A schedule of technology briefings includes:

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Boston, Phili, New York, Hartford people should send an email message to Mark, mrauterkus@sportsurf.net.

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These "work presentations" and discussions are part focus group, tutorial and consulting/feedback. The topic areas cover software development issues central to multimedia, RAD and software development

If you, or user-groups you know, are interested in meeting and spending a half-day of your time covering these topics with me this week --- please write.

The Phili meeting is going to be in Hatfield on Wed AM. (South of Allentown) The other meetings, Thurs, Fri. Sat. Monday the 30th, 1, 2, and 4th.

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San Antonio, Tx., 2:00 pm, February 21, Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort
9800 Hyatt Resort Drive, San Antonio, Tx 78251 phone: 210-647-1234

Local Host: Tommy Simmons, Employment Law Advisory Network, Inc.
www.hirenfire.com

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Dallas, Tx., 7:00 pm, February 25, Univ. of Texas Dallas, Callier Center
1966 Inwood Road, Dallas, TX 75235

Map to the Callier center on the SportSurf.Net/tour web page.

Located half mile north of InfoMart.
Exit I-35 at Inwood. Right onto Medical Center Drive. Center on Left.
Look for Green Awning for entry.
Host: Paul Dybala, dybala@audiologyinfo.com phone: 214-905-3041

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Dallas Part 2: 11:30 am, February 26, Tony Romas, Addison, TX
Beltline Road and Addison - Tony Romas Restaurant 972-661-2671

Local Host: Jeff Hoffman, jeff@timeleverresources.com
Time Lever Resources phone: 214-943-4522

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Pittsburgh, Pa., 2:30 pm, March 6, Pittsburgh International Airport
Main Concourse, Air-Side, Fridays Restaurant, Fridays = 412-472-5160

Special Visitor: Robert Abrams, rhabrams@cats.ucsc.edu
Local Host: Mark Rauterkus phone: 412-481-2540

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Cleveland area, Mentor, Ohio, 1:00 pm, March 17, Performance Concepts Inc.
7855 Division Drive, Mentor, Ohio 44060 phone: 216-974-9550

Host: www.pcioh.com
March 17 meeting is the date for the new product release.

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Corolla, N.C., May 17, 1:00 pm.
Contact Mark Rauterkus, mrauterkus@SportSurf.Net

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Background:

SportSurf.Net is teaming with academic programmer, Hugh Senior, Flexible Learning Company of the UK to promote, resell and support the FootNotes E-books. The hosting of the technology briefings are in preparation of the official USA release. The technology briefings include some focus group activities. There are no admission charges to attend the technology briefing, sans food and drinks.

FootNotes Mac is a new commercial software title that is geared for the Educational vertical markets. FootNotes Mac is the first in a series of FN E-book products. Various white papers and information tours are forthcoming to be delivered on or before March 17.

K-12 Solution Bundle Expected! Probable titles include:

• SuperCard, www.Allegiant.Com
• FootNotes, www.SportSurf.Net/FootNotes
• WebAlias, www.Lakewoodsoftware.Com
• Life Map for Concept Mapping, www2.ucsc.edu/mlrg/clr-conceptmapping.html
• Cascading Style Sheets editor, http://interaction.in-progress.com

Thanks for your interest.

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FAQs

I live near Philadelphia and may be interested in attending, but please fill me in a little more on the agenda. Is this SuperCard or FlameThrower or both?

Both

Is this you showing some of your work product,

Just a little bit -- as we talk about the possibilities of Killer Applications -- and FN E-Books come up in the talks.

Is this talking about the future of SC/FT based apps on the internet, or what?

Mainly the future.

Have you done these before?

Yes. 3 in Texas 2 months ago. Cleveland, Pgh.

Who has attended?

I've now met about 10 from the SuperCard list, and so. Some of my vendor partners and a couple authors have attended too. These are just small group meetings, but some have take some trips of some miles to attend and meet.

How have the meetings gone?

Very well. Great feedback. I realize objections. Lots of extra examples come out of them.

What are the objectives/goals for these meetings?

In part, to explain plans -- so to sharpen the saw when going to VCs (Venture Capital) in due time to help save the SC Assets.

I'm the one, who for the past year nearly, has advocated putting $ up to buy SC and FT and such, and then putting the code into the FREE REALM. I call this FREE SC. Not no-charge -- but rather OPEN SOURCE Code. I've got a trust fund open now to collect money to make this occur.

I think some info on the meetings is on my www site about tour, alert.

And, some info on the FREE SC promise is on the site too, about /Allegiant and the trust.

Competition in Swimming, Diving and Aquatic Programming in Western PA

by Mark Rauterkus, Head Swim Coach at Plum High School

Both the boys and girls swimming teams at Plum finished among the sweet-16 at last year’s state championships. Plum swimming, like that of most of the other programs throughout the area, is as strong as ever. Good programs stretch from Penn Hills, to Kiski Area and local bragging-rights encompass the state-champions, North Allegheny. 

High school swimmers and divers look forward to the WPIAL meet and advancing to states. For serious athletes, it is a big-deal to compete at WPIALs. This year, the WPIAL championships were split into two different meets, one for large schools and another for smaller schools. 

The kids on today’s scholastic teams know that to be good, it takes year-round involvement and plenty of additional practice beyond the school-team season. The club swimmers and divers rule at the championship meets. For decades, the champion athletes could be found on the club teams which offer year-round training. Everyone knows that the best way to reach the finals in swimming or diving is to stay in shape and practice well beyond the short, 4-month high school season. Hard work pays off in swimming, and it will continue to do so for many years to come.

In the 1960s, many of the suburban and rural schools did not have swim teams. And in the near future, the swim team structure in place today in many of our area schools might die. Today, many of the swim teams are alive, but a majority are choking and could be in their final twilight hours.

Don’t get me wrong. Competitive swim racing, and the equally important aquatic sports, are here to stay. However, things are bound to be quite different in the years to come.

 Dr. Robert Thomas, assistant swim coach at Penn Hills said, “Swimming, as a recreational form will always be around.” But he sees some changes, like co-ed mixed relays and diving leaving the scene—“unfortunately.”

“I don’t think diving has a chance in the long-term, said Scott Klugh, Shaler’s diving coach. “When I was a kid, if a school had enough people to do an activity, it would start something, even if it was intra-murals at first. Now the administrators at the schools are worried about money.”

Communities will continue to operate their facilities and realize a return on its investments, but community leaders will further emphasize programing and educational enrichment, rather than the recreational benefits. The trend toward more independent coaches will lead to partnerships in the schools and at the pools in due time.

Plum built its pool in 1976 and Penn Hills started its team in 1962. In the older years, kids swam at the Ys and in the summers.

Back in the 1950s, the good teams were in the City of Pittsburgh where swimming pools were in the schools. Vandergrift High also had a pool and a team in its old school, which became part of Kiski Area in 1963. Obviously, swimming pools and swimming teams go hand-in-hand and as the modern high schools in the area were built, they included the pool within the school facilities. 

Today’s exceptions are Oakland Catholic and Central Catholic who bus their teams to practices and survive with rented pool time.

Robert Kozak was a Pittsburgh resident and former, City Swimming Champion in the past period of time. Kozak recently retired after working a career in the printing trade and moved to the North Hills. Kozak says he thoroughly enjoys swimming at the N.A. pool in the evenings and weekends. 

“When I competed for the city title, we were in the war years and there were races such as the tired-swimmers-carry, the 60-yards underwater and one race where you had to kick and carry a rifle over your head as you swam.” 

In the 1940s, butterfly wasn’t in the rulebooks and the 220-yard race was competed at A.A.U. Nationals.

In those times, the war was near, and it touched everything, including swimming. For competition, the focus was the U.S.A. against the world. The swim races reflected the times of society. 

In the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, the competitive focus became more localized and pitted one school against another. In the 1980s and 1990s, the competitive drive was often found in face-to-face settings, often among classmates. In today’s competitive swimming meets, it is rare to find a school or a team getting an overtly competitive focus of beating an arch-rival. In recent years, the competitive drive has turned to the individuals to better their own personal records.

The great team battles in swimming with months of total team involvement are dying.

Individually, some awesome talent and excellent results are being posted in the aquatic sports at schools. But the gap between the competitors is huge. 

At Plum, there are no “try-outs and cuts” to make varsity teams. In lean years, Plum does not have enough students on the team to complete a meet line-up. Plum does not have many male divers. Anyone who shows-up for practice can make the swimming team.

It is common to see the star swimmers lap the field. A 55-second race for some finds others finishing in 1-minute-55-seconds. The best athletes are getting better and better while the lower-end seem to be getting progressively worse.

Chris Troilo, Kiski Area Swim Coach in 1990s said, “With better training and better preparation, the kids are going faster and faster. Swimming has less in quantity but more in quality.”

Head-to-head, close races are rare. In swimming, the clock is an objective judge and improving one’s time is where self-satisfaction occurs, not in winning.

The future for swimming needs to stress personal excellence. Swim teams should be incubators for excellence. With a shift in athletics away from the team concepts, coaches and athletes can get individualized attention and develop personal bonds. Teams with 3 or 6 or less than 12 members are more common.

Team sports needing large numbers of participants will flounder or have to adapt in the future. The best athletes will compete in individual sports. Plus, professional swimming is in its infancy. Other professional leagues are starting to diminish, obviously in attendance, but also in TV viewers.

In the future, athletic departments in schools will not be able to boast valid win-loss records because the competition will be too diverse and unreliable. 

Swimming is an ideal environment to teach and experiment with high-level learning. The technical, physical and motivational components of the aquatic sports are demanding and require year-round attention. The fundamental lessons in ethics, decision-making, analysis and performance are difficult concepts to teach and study. The lessons of hard-work and fitness at the pool transfer beyond the athletic arena and into everyday life. 

In the future, let’s utilize swimming pools and coaches with vision to capture the imaginations and to inspire greatness in some of our students.

 Mark Rauterkus, was the Head Swim Coach at Plum High School, and was the publisher of the Sports Support Syndicate, an independent, small-press in Pittsburgh. The SSS published cutting-edge books on sports-participation. Mark has coached swimming state-record holders in five different states. In Mark’s first and second years of coaching swimming at Plum, the girls team finished in 2nd place at the WPIAL championships in 1992 and 1993.

Having a great time as the new varsity coach for the Plum Mustangs

Mark Rauterkus

Sports Support Syndicate, Inc.

108 South 12th Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15203

January 28, 1992

Plum High School

Athletic Director

Dear Mr. Robert Terlinski,

I'm having a great time, in this my first year, as the coach of the Plum High School Swim Team. I'm thankful for the opportunity to work with the students and get back into the day-to-day activities of sports.

Now I'm doing some thinking about next year and the long-term future. I'd like to explore the possibilities of some day moving into a full-time position with the school district. Would you be willing to entertain some ideas and proposals from myself regarding the creation of a new position within the district?

I see a number of different ways in which I could be of value to Plum besides being a swim coach. I'd like to work with you as Athletic Director and Mr. Klaus. Together we could dream up a couple of ideas, come to some agreements among ourselves and then pitch a proposal or two to the administrators and eventually the board.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks for the consideration.

Sincerely Yours,

Mark Rauterkus

Possible Positions:

Natatorium CEO

Athletic Development Director

Executive Director of the Plum Press

Chairperson of the District Wide Pull Your Own Weight Activities

Regional Swimming Coordinator

Sponsor of Publications (Yearbook/Newspaper/Wellness Newsletter)

Teacher of:

Swimming Classes

Journalism

Applied Reading and Writing

Collegiate Recruiting

Resource and Coach for Other Sporting Activities

Conditioning Coach

 

February 5, 1992

Plum High School

Athletic Director

Dear Mr. Robert Terlinski,

Here is the first draft of some ideas that I had in mind for us to share and discuss. You said it is always wise to listen, and I agree. So I'd like to start with these six ideas and get a picture from you as to what you think might work, and what might not work. These ideas are a first step, and I'm quite open to making changes based on your feelings and advice.

At first, I'm going to offer a wide range of ideas. There are too many here for one person to accomplish, but we might be able to build a position with points from a few of the different plans. They are in no order with regard to importance.

Iíve named each idea with a title for easier discussion. They include:

ï Natatorium CEO

ï Founder and Executive Director of the Plum Press

ï Chairperson of the Pull Your Own Weight Activities

ï Founder and Director of the Regional Swimming Team

ï Resource Coach for Plum's Sports Teams

ï Teacher

Furthermore, I realize at some point I'll need to further sell my ideas to others and even outline my philosophy of teaching. I'm prepared to do what ever is necessary in our discussion so that I may present a viable proposal to the district.

Natatorium CEO

Job Description:

Program and administer all after school activities at the swimming pool.

Design and manage the budget for programs.

Hire all staff.

Coordinate payroll, time sheets, and getting all pay materials from the employees to the school district accounting office.

Hold a forum for community input and evaluation regarding the programs.

Coordinate usage of the pool with outside groups.

In the summer months, either manage or hire a manager to operate the poolís programs.

Goals

Increase utilization of the natatorium by the community with the involvement in meaningful programs such as:

Learn to swim, family swim, water safety, masters swimming, fitness swimming, rehab exercise, and alternative activities such as water polo, diving, scuba, underwater hockey, birthday parties.

Mission

To upgrade the aquatic educational opportunities in periods beyond the school day by sponsoring creative programs and enrolling active, dues paying participants supporting such programs.

Needs

Classroom availability.

Weight room availability

Qualified instructor payroll

Marketing and promotions budget

Class supplies and storage for pool area usage

Founder and Executive Director of the ìPlum Pressî

Job Description

Design and seek approval of a business plan for the formation, funding and operation of the Plum Press.

As the formation of the Plum Press becomes a reality, the founder would become Executive Director.

Plum Press Definition

The Plum Press would be a new department or a non-profit subsidiary within the school district.

The Plum Press would have its own operational budget that would allow for revenues, expenses, some speculative investments, capital investments, inventory, part-time salary, etc., etc.

The Plum Press would be a commercial, enterprise, operated by a school district appointed executive director that creates an educational setting for the students and allows for the development, display, distribution and marketplace involvement of in-house products.

Mission

The Plum Press would be a cutting-edge, private/public cooperative venture that would operate 12 months of the year that would have the following benefits:

Teach students how to work-place setting

Provide hands on experiences of the marketplace in

Projects in mind for the Plum Press include:

Periodicals:

The Sports Reader

A quarterly, book review magazine with a fun, sports, recreation and fitness focus.

The Sports Chronicle

A quarterly magazine of newspaper article reprints from around the nation related to sports-specific topics.

The Golden Cog Award Program

An awards program for authors, editors, publishers, illustrators for accomplishment in publishing sports and fitness materials.

Book Series:

A is for Athlete

This series of multi-lingual, sports-specific, alphabet books would teach languages and sports and culture. The series would feature one book for each Olympic Sport and each book would feature six or more different languages. 

First Things First

This series of sport-specific books would teach a 9th grader how to consider trying out, joining, playing and conditioning him or herself for a scholastic sports team. The series would have a book on each sport offered in the high school setting.

Sports Math

This series of workbooks would feature questions and answers about math as it relates to sports and recreation. The series would get more difficult with regard to the sports in discussion as well as the math skills needed to solve the problems.

Patrick Rabbit - Literacy Comic Books

This series of comic books feature Patrick Rabbit of the literacy advocate group, Cartoonist Across the World. We will write the stories, sell the ads, build a program of distribution and contract with the creative talent.

Notes on ________

This series of more technical, how-to books are written, by and large, by proficient student-athletes in conjunction with expert, internationally famous coaches. Each book will be on one sporting activity. For example, we can get Olympic Swim Coach, Don Gambril, to coordinate the text for the book, Notes on Swimming.

Lifting in the 5th Dimension

This is one book that looks at peak performance and it utilizes weight lifting as the medium of expression. However, we can re-write this book over and over again making it apply to all sorts of activities, from marching in the band to playing on the volleyball team. 

Talking with the Golf God

This book, like Lifting in the 5th Dimension, is written for a specific gameóthe game of golf. However, the sports psychology, visualization, and other self-help messages of this book can be taken out of the context of golf, and re-written for other activities. This would be a fantastic project for high school students to complete.



Special Events

Pull Your Own Weight

Speaker's Tour

Student Readings

Radio Public Service Announcements

Halloween - Now that is Scary.

Goals

Needs

ï Chairperson of the ìPull Your Own Weightî Activities

ï Founder and Director of the Regional Swimming Team

ï Resource Coach for Plumís Sports Teams

ï Teacher

Keep It Simple Plan of Action for Mark Rauterkus Joining the Plum School District

Mark would like to explore the possibilities of becoming a full-time employee of Plum School District.

Mark suggests the creation of new, 12-month position within the school district.

The new position with have two major responsibilities with titles to be called:

Natatorium CEO and 

Executive Director of the Plum Press

As Natatorium CEO, Mark will take responsibility of the development and administration of all aspects of the Natatorium programing beyond the normal school day, including summers. 

As Executive Director of the Plum Press, Mark would lead a new department within the district as a non-profit subsidiary. The Plum Press would have its own operational budget allowing for revenues, expenses, speculative investments, capital investments, inventory, part-time salaries, office space, etc., etc.

Just as some universities sponsor their own University Presses, such as the University of Pittsburgh Press, so will Plum High School have its own commercial, incubator, laboratory, enterprise, operated by a school district appointed executive director. 

The Plum Press will create a new educational setting for the students and allows for the development, display, distribution and marketplace involvement of in-house products and services.

The Plum Press could be a cutting-edge, private/public partnership, that would inject a tremendous amount of energy, and zeal for reading, writing, fitness and sport into the student body and community at large.

The Plum Press would do wonders for literacy, personal fitness, creative thinking, self-esteem, and the Plum Press would offer real-world application of class-room knowledge for the students.

I feel that the Plum Press could have a positive impact on every student that goes through this high school and for every citizen in the district. Within ten years, I feel that the Plum Press could have touched every adult in the county in a positive manner. Furthermore, I feel certain that the Plum Press can be operated in fiscally responsible nature that would make it a source of new revenues within five years. 

The Plum Press would not be created for the sole purpose of turning a profit, but within a few years, the revenue from the activities of the Plum Press could fund many exciting experiences, from computer labs to guest speakers. In due time, the operations of the Plum Press could certainly pay for all the costs of the overhead, including the executive directorís salary. 

School and Employment Operational Considerations:

The Executive Director of the Plum Press would teach two classes per semester, 6th period and 7th period, to be called Applied Reading and Writing.

This elective, one-semester course would be open for 10 to 15 upperclass students who have earned high-honors English grades.

Applied Reading and Writing would be held in a classroom next to the office and store-room of the Plum Press. Hopefully, this room could be made available near the print-shop, perhaps room B6? This classroom and storeroom would also need to be the Executive Director's office throughout the day. It will need to be equipped with 4 to 10 computers, a couple of phone lines and other, special equipment.

As teacher, the Executive Director would report to the school principal.

The Natatorium CEO will hold many pre-school activities for students and staff. Among those activities will be the creation of new club, the Plum Guards. The Natatorium CEO should be assigned Home Room responsibilities and have the Plum Guards as students in that Home Room throughout the entire school year. 

The Natatorium CEO should also teach one course in the first period in the first semester to be called, Advanced Aquatics Exercise and Instruction. This class should serve as a PE requirement for the students who enroll.  The class should be restricted to swimmers who have already passed the PE swimming class. A classroom and part of the swimming pool should be available for the class meeting. It might be possible that the regular swimming class and the Advanced Aquatics could be held in the pool in first period if both classes are kept to a small number of enrollment.

As far as the coaching is concerned, Mark would intend to continue to serve as the head swimming coach for the boys and girls teams. No significant changes other than hosting a couple of large meets each season, are in-store for the swim teams and the coach should report to the athletic director.

With the Plum Press and the activities revolving around fun activities, like athletics and sports and such, the Executive Director would like to be considered a "Resource Coach" for all athletic teams in the school.

Plum Hosts Central / Oakland Catholic in a swim meet on a Monday

Mark Rauterkus

Sports Support Syndicate, Inc.

108 South 12th Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15203

Head Swim Coach for Plum High School Boys & Girls Teams

December 9, 1991

Sports Department

Dear Friends in the Media,

Here are the results of a swim meet held at Plum High School pool on this date. This might make for good copy in an article as the team, before the meet, at the urging of their new, first year coach, voted to discipline themselves by swimming all the races in the meet as exhibition. The athletes competed in the water but did not score points, which is feasible in the swimming meet.

The team took this punishment upon themselves by a team vote moments before the meet began as they all did not show up for a weekend practice. The only points scored in the meet for the Plum H.S. team are a result of the diving.

This was not a sectional meet. Both teams have a record of 0-2, as both the boys and girls teams lost on Friday at Penn Hills in the season opener.

Mark Rauterkus, the team's new head coach said, "I'm proud of the swimmers for taking responsibility for their actions and putting a loss in the record books in a meet we easily should have won. However, I am a bit disappointed that the team is lacking in the determination and commitment to show up for scheduled practices, even if the practices are held on the weekend. However, I am sure that we will have a great season working together.î

Thanks.

Sincerely Yours,

Mark Rauterkus, President

SPORTS SUPPORT SYNDICATE, INC.

Head Coach ,Plum High School SwimmingThe results are to follow:

Girls Meet

Plum High School = 13

Oakland Catholic High School = 137

Medley Relay

Plum 2:07.85 (E. VanTassel, Durray, E. VanTassel, B. Potchatko)

Oakland 2:08.54 (Duncan, Murello, Shepherd, Mansen)

200 Free

Plum 2:02.75 K. Painter *

Plum 2:04.88 OíNeil *

Oakland 2:13.11 Tassone

200 IM

Plum 2:15.8 K. VanTassel *

Plum 2:21.4 Beatty *

Oakland 2:25.81 Duncan

50 Free

Plum 28.59 Walsh

Oakland 29.35 Seethaler 

Oakland 30.20 Poland

Diving

Plum 131.4 S. McMullen

Plum 124.35 Farrel

Plum 116.44 Williams

100 Fly

Plum 1:03.89 OíNeil *

Plum 1:04.21 Painter *

Oakland 1:10.48 Pillan

100 Free

Plum 56.60 E. VanTassel *

Plum 58.30 Beatty

Oakland 1:10.05 Kuhn

500 Free

Oakland 6:00.33 Hollan

Oakland 6:23.84 More

Oakland 6:44.28 Tassone

200 Free Relay

Plum 1:50.73 (Painter, Beatty, Potchatko, Hook)

Plum 1:52.06 (K. VanTassel, Duray, Miller, E. VanTassel)

Oakland 1:59.08 (Seethaeer, Pillar, Fragvogel, Ascamo)

Plum 2:17.27 (Burkhart, Walsh, Woods, Weaver)

100 Back

Plum 1:03.47 K. VanTassel

Plum 1:14.46 N. Hook

Oakland 1:15.91 Poland

100 Breast

Oakland 1:15.81 Duncan

Plum 1:17.59 Cerchiaro

Oakland 1:21.23 Hanson

400 Free Relay

Plum 4:07.33 (OíNeil, Beatty, Painter, Potchatko)

Oakland 4:18.42 (Tassone, Freytag, Kunn, Mconolly)

Oakland 4:42.58 (Hollan, Pillar, More, Shepherd)

Boys Meet 

Plum High School = 6

Central Catholic = 131

Medley Relay

Plum 1:53.6 (Wozniak, Wallace, OíNeil, Rumbaugh)

Central 1:56.00 (Heantger, Mihole, Balsley, Fryrag)

Plum 2:06.68 (Hedeen, Miller, Halloren, Heintzinge)

200 Free

Plum 1:52.01 Rumbaugh*

Central 2:20.18 Kasper

Plum 2:23.38 Messina

200 IM

Plum 2:06.65 OíNeil*

Plum 2:26.25 Hedeen

Central 2:28.36 Henninge

50 Free

Central 24.12 Scamardi

Plum 26.41 Wozniak

Plum 26.95 Heintzinger

Diving

Plum A. Izzo

100 Fly

Plum 53.30 Rumbaugh*

Central 1:00.10 Balsley

Central 1:12.32 Grogan

100 Free

Plum 53.71 OíNeil

Plum 1:02.00 Heintzinger

Plum 1:06.26 Miller

500 Free

Plum 6:06.16 Wallace

Plum 6:35.01 Halloran

Central 6;48.86 Kasper

200 Free Relay

Plum 1:49.35 (Heintzinger, Messina, Halloran, Hedeen)

Central 1:52.00 (Tishworth, Biricocchi, Cassey, Erytas)

Central 1:58.26 (Brinzar, Grime, Viccaro, Resan)

100 Back

Plum 1:03.46 Wozniak

Plum 1:08.61 Hedeen

Central 1:15.65 Scollion

100 Breast

Plum 1:14.40 Wallace

Central 1:18.39 Mihok

Plum 1:18.70 Miller

400 Free Relay

Plum 3:48.44 (OíNeil, Wallace, Wozniak, Rumbaugh)

Central 4:18.19 (Henniger, Kasper, Frytag, Scamardi)

Central 4:29.63 (Marks, Carson, Viccaro, Reagan)

Going to the chapel. Going to get married! Chapel of love.

Wedding program.

PINN's first public action with Mark Rauterkus, David Dunn and Kelly Ware to Tom Cox and Tom Murphy for Citiparks and Youth Technology

Reference letter for Mark Rauterkus from Peoria Park District's Laura Forstall

Letter of Reference for Mark Rauterkus from Baylor Univ and Larry Newell

OU Report Card

150 Zoology was no joke. That was the course that was often taken 2 or 3 times. It was the one that split the pre-med majors too.

VW essay from freshman essay

Report Card

Winter quarter, 1978-79.

Introduction to Coaching as a course is sometimes needed to show for coaching certification. 

The UP courses were University Professors. Great classes. 

GPA = 3.457