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When Coach Harry Parker wanted to send his men's crew team to Egypt in 1979 to race against the Cairo Police Department on the Nile, all he had to do was pick up the phone and give his team's top fundraiser, Nick Bancroft, a ring. Bancroft then put the proposal before the management committee of the Friends of Harvard Rowing--and the rowers were on their...
...Friends of Crew frequently aided the women's crew program before 1981, the process of actually bringing women onto the management committee was a slow one. In the annual awards banquet sponsored by the friends, "there wasn't even the question of inviting women to the dinner" in 1960, Bancroft says. In the mid-60s, only wives were allowed to attend the festivities while later in the decade rowers were allowed to be accompanied by "credited females," which meant a girlfriend of wife...
...Today, Bancroft says, the Friends "have come so far we don't even think if it's a women's crew or not." As an example, he points to Devin Mahony '86, a woman who is the coxswain for the men's varsity heavyweight crew. She is officially listed as a member of the Harvard crew team, while other female rowers are members of the Radcliffe team...
...chairmen of the Friends of Rowing say they think merging was a good idea because it avoids the bureaucratic problem of having two organizations do half jobs. "For me, it was not so much a question of Title IX," says Bancroft, "as much as it was a question of how to raise the most money for Harvard Rowing. That...
...when Dr. Livingston (Jane Fonda) enters the scene, armed with Dr. Freud and a court warrant, determined to find out if Agnes has all her marbles before the trial begins. Her efforts are slowed by the government, the Church, and, for her own reasons, the indomitable Mother Superior Anne Bancroft). All parties are determined to see the case quickly brushed under the rug, which places Fonda in her familiar, irritating role of crusader. Amusingly, Fonda chain smokes throughout the movie, which certainly won't sell any videos...