Welcome Shea Terry, future Schwan's USA CUP radio ops director?
By Barclay Kruse, NSC Chief Communications Officer
Every July, volunteers Paul and Nancy Terry direct the radio operations center at Schwan's USA CUP. This husband-wife team from Blaine, manage all radio communications during the tournament. It's a challenging job that demands long hours of work, a cool demeanor, rock-solid resistance to pressure, and a spot-on nose for irony. Their wry humor is most evident when the Terry's hand out demerits to the tournament staff for real and imagined violations of policies and procedures -- like failing to return cart keys, mangling the English language during radio calls, or ironically, being too well-behaved.
There's so much stress in Paul and Nancy's chosen volunteer job that we all realize they may decide to hang it up one of these years. So we were greatly relieved to learn before Schwan's USA CUP this summer, that the couple was expecting their first child. Now there would be a new member of the Terry family to take over when Paul and Nancy decide to retire -- a line of succession to the radio ops throne, if you will.
The heir apparent, Daughter Shea Cailin Terry, was born on October 27, 2007. Weighing 7 pounds, 7 ounces, she waited until 2:56 am to make her appearance, a choice of timing that promptly earned her a demerit from mom.
Today, Nancy stopped by the NSC offices for the first time since Shea's birth to show off our next Schwan's USA CUP Radio Ops Director. Of course Paul and Nancy would have to hang on for at least 20 years, until she's trained and ready, which gives all of us on staff plenty of time to rack up more demerits.
Below are two photos of Nancy, a soundly sleeping Shea, and Schwan's USA CUP director Teri Vogt.
Isn't Shea just the most beautiful baby ever! Not that this grandma is biased. I am sure she will make a number of appearances at the 2008 USA Cup.
Posted by: Lorrie Terry | November 16, 2007 at 09:38 AM