I too would like to thank everyone who keeps this list going. I joined in 
Jan 1993 while I was still a student at CC and I think I jumped in when 
there was a discussion about Brad Buetow, who was the coach then at CC. 
This list also allowed me to still follow college hockey while I was in 
France for a semester in 1994 and had email access, back when there wasn't 
really anything on the web yet (though I did have to borrow one of my
brother's university accounts to subscribe while I was away, as it had a
bigger disk quota than my CC account :) ). I've met some great people here 
and I enjoy seeing you all at the Frozen Fours that I've been to, 
especially now when I've been living in St. Louis the last 6 1/2 years and 
haven't been able to go to college games regularly like I used to.

Wow...16 years on this list. That's almost half my life ago. :)

Karen Shadwick 
Colorado College '95
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, [UTF-8] Wayne T Smith wrote:

> Happy Birthday, Hockey-L!
>
> It was April 27th, 1990 when the half-year-old "College_Hockey"
> distribution list came to Maine and was christened "Hockey-L".
>
> I've been pleased (most years!) to host the group for those 19 years and
> look forward to another resurgent season in 2009-2010.
>
> Special thanks go to our list administrator, Bill Fenwick
> ([log in to unmask]) and the group instigator, some 21 years ago,
> Mike Machnik!
>
> To find posts about Hockey-L written on other birthdays, go to
>
>      http://lists.maine.edu/cgi/wa?S1=hockey-l
>
> and enter as "search for":  birthday and April
>
> cheers, wayne
>