The Stern Center is excited to be partnering with the Vermont City Marathon (VCM) this year to raise money for our scholarship program to help those with both financial and educational need to be able to afford services. We have three five-person relay teams running with us this year, one of them being headed-up by Stern Center Board member, Bud Meyers. He and his team, the Stern Wheezers (known as the UVM Wheezers in years past) have been doing this race for more than 20 years. Here’s why he’s running for the Stern Center this year:
Every year I say "this will be the last...," but then I smell the roses and line up at the exchange. Memory fades, but I checked the VCM archives and it seems that the UVM Wheezers started running the this race in 1992. It may have been ’91, but those records are missing.
Anyway, who’s counting? Most of the past 23 years the core group of diehard runners, Russ, Charlie and Bud have gathered friends, spouses, children, grandchildren and graduate students to round out the Wheezers (you can hear us coming) for twenty six miles of fun, frolic and pain. We’ve run for many reasons, but mostly because we can.
