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DIRECTORY
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EDUCATIONAL
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MEMBER
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Bill Kelley
- Snow Machine Support
I was born in Yokohama, Japan into
a career Air Force family and spent the next
18 years moving every three years from base to base in Asia, the
U.S. and Europe.
I married MaryAnnette, my high school sweetheart in 1973 and graduated
from
medical school in 1976 and after several years of training in
San Francisco, we moved to a small town in central Oregon. In
1988 we tipped over, sold everything, and moved with our 3 kids
to a sailboat, spending the next three and one-half years tramping
around the world. We ran out of money in Australia and moved to
Soldotna, Alaska in 1991 temporarily, we thought, because I was
broke and needed a job. We fell in love with the place and never
left.
I love to hunt and fish and the beauty and silence of the wilderness
of Alaska continues to stun me. My snow machining experience centers
around several years of trapping on the Kenai Peninsula. My team
mate is the renown Kasilof dog musher, Katie Tongue. Her husband,
John and I work together and our families are close friends. Katie
and John have had a dog lot in their front yard for 10+ years.
John has run the Iditarod a couple of times. I have spent a little
time on the runners myself and managed to break my collar bone
and do some clear cut logging—mainly along the outside edges
of downhill turns. I guess I’ll stick to the snow machine.
I’m elated to be part of the 2006 Serum Run. It think it
is elegant to celebrate an incredible mushing effort combined
with a medical message in the villages whose predecessors were
so much a part of it. In particular, I look forward to being on
the trail and seeing the country
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INFORMATION
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2007
HONORARY
MUSHERS
Howard
Lincoln from White
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