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...sports memory that will stick in my mind most, however, is not a Boston sports memory but a Belmont sports memory. I will always remember Asa Palmer's dunk against archrival Lexington during my junior year in high school...
During the summer before my eighth grade year, rumors swirled around Belmont that a 6'5" youngster named Asa Palmer was coming. The rumor mill said that Asa had a lineage any basketball coach would salivate over--a brother who was a freshman at Duke and a brother who was a 7'1" center for the Utah Jazz...
Also during the week, Dartmouth picked up a non-league win against Boston College, 1-0, but lost two games down south in the Lanzera/Holiday Classic, 2-0 to eighth-ranked Virginia and 2-0 in overtime to Maryland. Despite these losses, senior Asa Marokus was named to the all-tournament team...
...caution. Is the door half open or half closed? Her apprehension is understandable, given the subject she has written about: her two-year stay as a teenager on a ward for girls at McLean, a private psychiatric hospital outside Boston. Kaysen wrote two novels, Far Afield and Asa, as I Knew Him, before she began her literary journey back to McLean. In fact, she spent more than 20 years avoiding the topic. "I never discussed it. I didn't know what to say," she recalls. If she did bring it up, "it was a good way to irritate or frighten...
...them we lost our private rooms; out with thebed, in with the double-bunk (happily, SibylBeckett '44 and I had fun, despite the crowding).Breakfast became self service, and rationing tookhold (mournfully did I stare into a fullhalf-gallon of coffee, to view the bottom clear asa coral reef in Tahiti--you had to drink it all toget any kick...