Lou The Glue, Rest in Peace

Lou "The Glue" Marcelli died at 3:00 this morning. He was 85. Lou was the "Commodore" of the Dolphin Club, one of the oldest swimming and rowing clubs on the West Coast, open since 1877. Lou lived at the club and cooked nightly for the old timers, the bachelors, for those without a family to go home to. His calamari was legendary. Every day he would put on his bikini trunks, bathing cap and goggles and plungeinto the cold waters of the bay. "The main thing is to look it in the eye and go," Lou told us as we shivered on the shore and took our first swim with him. "You don't have to swim to Alcatraz, just go." Swim in Peace, Lou.