Six Degrees of John V-Neun

[dlavery]

How did I miss this the first time around??? Oh well, here goes.

I, Dave Lavery once loaned my Silicon Graphics computer to Vice-President Al Gore. He used it to show images from the Mars Pathfinder landing site to Attorney General Janet Reno. Janet Reno was parodied on Saturday Night Live by Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell graduated from the University of Southern California, as did Patricia Nixon, wife of President Richard Nixon. Mrs. Nixon was the First Lady when she welcomed Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins to the White House after the Apollo 11 lunar landing. Neil Armstrong was the first human to step on the surface of the Moon. But Tony Norman thinks that Armstrong and Aldrin really landed on a sound stage in Arizona. Despite this fundamentally stupid belief, Tony did at one time make an amazing display of good judgment and hired JVN.

-dave

[Swan217]

Dan Swando was on 217 longer than Paul Copioli, who Announced the GLR with Dave Verbrugge, who is on Hotbot with Gina Sweet, who is in the same Sorority as Theresa Thompson who's dad Mr. Thompson was in charge of Safety at Buckeye Regional last year, which was attended by Sarah Brown (who didn't like it), who was on 229 with John V. Neun.

[Billfred]

Let's go again!

I, William "Billfred" Leverette, released a teaser video for Team 1293. The first person visible in that video is Greg Hosford, 1293 jokester and engineer extraordinaire. Mr. Hosford works for Shakespeare Composite Structures, which shares a name with William Shakespeare. Shakespeare (the person) wrote "Twelfth Night" which was performed in November of 2004 at Clarkson University, the then-home of JVN.

[Swan217]

6 DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON:
Kevin Bacon was in his first movie Animal House with John Belushi, who was on SNL as was Will Ferrel, who starred in Anchorman with Steve Carrel, who used to be on the Daily Show with Jon Stewert on Comedy Central, which was the logo in front of which IFI founders Bob Mimlitch & Tony Norman stood in a photo, who hired John V. Neun.

AND ME AGAIN:
DAN SWANDO once got an autograph from the captain of the Detroit Red Wings Steve Yzerman (and know which house is his). The Red Wings were assistant coached by Barry Smith before the strike, who now is assistant coach for the Phoenix Coyotes under Wayne Gretsky, who ran Team Canada this year at the Olympics. Canada was knocked out by Russia, which included newcomer Pavel Datsyuk, who lost the Bronze to the Czech Republic, which included Robert Lang, who was the 1990 Draft Pick of L.A. Also picked in the 1990 Draft (and now playing for L.A.) was Craig Conroy. Conroy is an alumni from Clarkson University, as is John V Neun.

[Michelle Celio]

I Michelle Celio, freinds with Tiffany34990 who is also friends with Tytus Gerrish who is know for terrorisng the south florida area *kidding!!* with Arefin Bari who was on FIRSTcast *episode 2* which is hosted by Matt Krass who was thrown into a fountain at the 2006 Web hug by Joe Matt who works at seseme place which is based of seseme street wich is probably watched by Andy Baker (becuase of his children!) who was on the latter epsiode of FIRSTcast as JVN

[Adam Richards]

I, Adam Richards, create podcasts with Joe Matt. One of Joe's best friends is Matt Krass, whose sister Madison Krass works with team 488. Team 488 attended the Championship for the first time in Atlanta in 2006. Another team that attended Championships for the first time in Atlanta was team 1942, which also attended the Israel Regional. A volunteer at the Israel Regional was Greg Needel, a former member of 1511. Greg was also on 1511 with Ashley Christine, who went to the Finger Lakes Regional this past year at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Koko Ed recently graduated from there, and currently mentors team 191, which was a rookie team in 1992. Another rookie team in 1992 was team 20, JVN's high school team.

[Rohith Surampudi]

I Rohith Surampudi swapped shirts with Elgin Clock who stayed at the house of Conor Ryan from 1403 after Monty Madness. Dez also stayed at Conor Ryan's after Monty Madness. Dez slept in the basement with Joe Matt. Joe Matt is an Apple computer addict. Kayla13 uses am ibook g4 and engages in Skype conferences with Joe Matt. Kayla gave Karthik Kanagasabapathy a kilt. Karthik Kanagasabapathy posed in this picture with JVN.

[Steve W]

I, Steve Warren had a shop class teacher in grade 7 by the name of Jim Breadner. Now Jim had a 2 year old son named Mark Breadner. As time went on and Mark grew up, he invited me to a FIRST event. I asked to join a team and was introduced to Roly Anderson. Now with Roly's love for the program I became really inspired and began volunteering at events as well. Well the Regional Director of FIRST Robotics Canada was Vance Scott. With backup by Mark Breadner, Vance worked with Rob Gorbet to start up the Waterloo Regional. Now, how to staff this event was an issue. Volunteers are coming from all over. One of those people was an ex Team 188 member, Tristan Lall. Tristan was the lead inspector. Well during the inspections I became a bit disgruntled by issues surrounding our team. Brewing and stewing I sat down at the scorers table were I had my perspectives put in their proper place by the one and only JVN.

[Jay Trzaskos]

I, Jay Trzaskos, am attending IRI this July. I am going to be staying with team 25 and Corey Balint. Corey drove in the Championship Finals on Einstein against Paul Copioli and his ThuderChickens. 217 attended the Greater Toronto Regional along with the Husky Brigade and Ken Patton who won the Championship Woodie Flowers Award in 1999. Andy Baker won the Championship Woodie Flowers Award 4 years later in 2003. Andy had dinner with Chris Carnevale and other 229'ers in Manchester before the kickoff event this year. Chris Carnevale headed the Integrated Design team on 229 this past year. Jeremy Boire was a member if the ID team this year, but the year before he was JVN's roommate.

[KelliV]

I, Kelli Van Antwerp, was a member of WildStang with Tiffany Gach, who went to prom with Andrew Morrison, who attended IRI. team 45 was at IRI with Andy Baker who threw peanuts at me durin ght Braves game with Tytus Gerrish who might as well be married to Arefin Bari. Both of whom I met through Courtney Balcer who drove with me to the Beatty Beach Party that was attended by Amanda Morrison who introduced me to JVN.

[Cynette]

Two approaches...

6-degrees through Indiana

I, Cynette Cavaliere, attended GMI (Kettering U) where I met my husband Tom. One of Tom’s fraternity brothers was Indiana native, Les Willis, whose son Joe became a member of Team 292, PantherTech. Joe made it sound so fun that my son Tommy jumped at the chance several years later to join the robotics team at his high school, the newly formed Team 1511. Team 1511 is lead by Kim O’Toole who also organized the off-season event Ra-Cha-Cha Ruckus. The 2005 Ruckus was attended by a woman who was visiting with her son who had flown up from Texas to volunteer at the event. That woman was the Mother of JVN. (I just happened to sit next to her when I took a break from my volunteer duties that day.)

6-degrees through Canada

(Same start) I, Cynette Cavaliere, attended GMI (Kettering U) where I was a RA (Resident Advisor) during my senior year. One of the members of my unit was Steve Rourke, the Father of the Triplets (Niagara FIRST), one of the Triplets, Team 1114 is mentored by Karthik, 1114 picked Team 1511 in the 2005 GTR and the alliance (with 1305) went on to become regional champions. 1511’s student coach was Tommy Cavaliere. The role of coach was filled by this year by Ashley Christine Cheney. Ashley’s first FIRST regional competition was in 2005 (as a member of 1559) at FLR held at RIT. Attending RIT and mentoring Team 1511 was Greg Needel. Greg took his Segway to Championships this year where he “borrowed” the bag of Jay Trzaskos and tried to throw it in the fountain. Jay is a member of Team 229. JVN is an alumnus of Team 229.

[Richard Wallace]

Anyone for another thread revival?

I, Richard Wallace, was sent by my employer during the first week of 1996 to visit Deka Research & Development, where I met Dean Kamen. Dean immediately convinced my boss (not connected with FIRST since then) that Emerson should start a FIRST team, so I stayed over Friday night, attended the FRC kickoff Saturday morning and returned to STL with a kit of parts... but I digress. Dean's self-propelled inverted pendulum, code-named Ginger, attracted the attention of entrepreneur John Doerr, who knew my boss through previous business deals. He later became one of the main investors in Segway LLC ... but I digress again. John's sister Susie Mathieu became a member of the FIRST board of directors and started the St. Louis Regional planning committee, another rich opportunity for digression, but I won't go there. Last year, our committee decided to (1) hold a Fall Training Camp for robotics in November and (2) host an FVC Pilot event in December, so Susie contacted Tony Norman to get some help from IFI. To make sure that we got the best technical guidance available, Tony dispatched the incomparable JVN.

[Billfred]

I, William Leverette, got my start in FVC by filling out a form on VIMS, which I followed up on by emailing Lynn Casey, FIRST's volunteer resources manager at the time. She forwarded that email to Karen Smith, who was the FVC Program Coordinator at the time. That email resulted in an email to Lamar Tisdale, the contact at South Carolina State University for the 2006 FVC Orangeburg pilot tournament. This information was ultimately passed onto Gail Johnson, who ultimately made the volunteer assignment and handled volunteer training (although I had to miss it, as I had class and Orangeburg is an hour away from me). It was at this tournament that I first served as a judge, and it was also where I first met Donn Griffith, who served on this year's FVC game design committee with one Rich Kressly, who told everyone shortly before Atlanta to rub the nearly-bald head of JVN.

[Richard Wallace]

That's five posts in this thread. I nominate Billfred for the "prolific poster of connections to JVN" award.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Richard

That's five posts in this thread. I nominate Billfred for the "prolific poster of connections to JVN" award.

Thanks, Richard, but let's make it six.

I, William Leverette, am the older brother of Marlowe Leverette, 1293's operator in 2006. The driver that year was Paul Hosford, who was the operator in 2005 beside one Daniel Schep. Daniel's younger brother, Patrick Schep, is currently a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University, birthplace of the CMUcam. This year, teams received in the kit a simple mounting setup for the CMUcam designed by one JVN.