Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maggie MacLean was standing in the tall, wide doorway of Newell Boat House, just at the line that divides the vast room stacked with boats and oars from the grey pier that slopes gently down to the Charles River. Like the other ten women who stood in a semicircle listening to their coach. Harry Parker, she was wearing gym shorts and a tank top--hers was grey, with blue letters that said "U.S.A. Rowing Team Camp." But unlike the others, on her large, strong hands she wore protective leather gloves...
...that hovered on the edge of a drizzle, making a few dry, formal jokes in his New England-patrician way. After a minute or so, he moved on abruptly to the business of the day, calling out the names of the ones who would row in the first boat of four, the ones in the second boat, the unlucky ones who would have to stay behind to work on the ergometer machine. No one knows what Parker will do from one day to the next, so everyone listened carefully. But this morning there were no surprises. Two boats of fours...
Three members of Harvard's heavyweight boat, three from the lights, and one four-man rower joined the roster last week, after successfully bearing up through two and one half weeks of trials at Dartmouth...
Seniors Dick Cashin and AI Shealy and Dave Weinberg '74 will row for the heavies; juniors Steven Heller, Lief Soderberg, and Nod Reynolds for the' lights; and Dave Fellows '74 for the fourman boat...
Senior Tiff Wood is still competing for a place in the four-man boat...