Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dick Button '52 entered Harvard. Like most freshmen, Button was good at something. His special talent was figure skating. Button came into Harvard having already won a gold medal in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland...
Fast forward to 1998--Button is in St. Moritz again, this time celebrating the 50th anniversary of his golden moment. Button can still recall the day he won his first gold medal as if it were yesterday...
...Moritz that day...its brilliant sun, the crowds, the long walk to the stadium, the white coats and caps we wore, the sublime ice here at the Kulm for skating figures, the darkening shadows of a setting sun, the enthusiasm of what seemed to me like huge crowds," Button said...
Once he finished skating that day, Button became the first American to capture the gold medal in figure skating in Olympic competition...
Perhaps that is a little exaggeration, but Button has been around the sport for a long time. A former Massachusetts Hall and Lowell House resident, Button spent many hours during his stay at Harvard on the rink...