Word: acacias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Representing Harvard in the field events were senior co-captain Kim Johnson and freshman Maric Acacia, who completed in the shot put and discus. Johnson equaled her best throw--44 ft.--to take seventh in the shot, and she also notched a personal best in the discus with a 127-ft. loss, just one inch shy of Acacia's school record...
...meet during the early going, competing aggressively against the powerful Yale corps in the field events. Senior Co-Captain Kim Johnson, who won the Treasurer's Cup four years ago, led a sweep of the shot put with a new school record of 44'1 1/4". Freshman Marie Acacia also set a new school mark hurling 128 to win the discus...
When not singing the chorus still offers lively human scenery which adds excitement to several speeches, most notably that of Hierophantes, who shows up briefly as commentator on the action. Acacia Blythe as Hierophantes must recite the most baldly moralistic speech of the play, a condemnation of the apathetic "frogs" who are content to "let well enough alone." Yet her lyrical voice cases this speech onto the audience as the chorus slowly dances and pantomines around her. At other times the frog-chorus is strictly comic, as when the twelve hop around, individualized by bits of clothing as diverse...
...Stricker Barrett, Beckford) 9:20.86, 2. Princeton, 3. Penn. 10,000-meters--1. Kate Wiley (H) 35:56.44, 2. Gilian Morton (Y), 3. Judy Damore (Penn). 400-meter Relay--1. Princeton 48:30, 2. Yale, 3. Cornell. Shot Put--1. Gail Koziara (D) 14.14m (meet record), 2. Marie Acacia (H), 3. Kim Johnson (H). Heptathlon--1. Mariquita Patterson (H) 4646 points (meet record), 2. Kate Delhagen (P), 3. Colette Fleming (Penn). 800-meters--1. Monica Egbuono (P) 2:13, 1:2. Mary Herkhy (H), 3. Mary Turner (Penn...
Tossing talents aside, Johnson also wins accolades from her teammates for her ebullient and cheerful personality. "Kim really cares about us," Acacia says. "If someone gets injured, she is genuinely concerned, and when I throw well, I can tell that she's really happy...