Word: captains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a last name that means "oar" in Latin, Dana A. Remus '97 seemed destined to row. The sport has helped transform the senior heavyweight crew captain from a skinny, uncoordinated kid to the leader of a winning boat this year, which will try out for the U.S. National Rowing Team...
Other players, such as wingback Cleo A. O'Donnell Jr. '44, had played for Harvard in 1942 and returned to the team after tours of duty in the war. O'Donnell, a pint-sized speedster, was elected captain in the fall of '42, but joined the Marines before getting the chance to lead. He was again elected captain by the '46 squad...
President Linda S. Wilson awarded the $5,000 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize to Ann C. Hwang '97 in a 28 ceremony highlighted by the surprise appearance of Hwang's mother...
Fraternization rules vary from service to service. An Army pamphlet states that "dating between soldiers of different rank is not harmful, and usually not improper." On the Navy's first coed carrier to include servicewomen, the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, couples who confessed their love to the captain quietly received new assignments, without repercussion. The Air Force takes a different attitude. Although a manual allows that a marriage between an officer and enlisted person "is not, by itself evidence of misconduct," it reserves the right to take punitive action "based on prior fraternization...
...include those lambasting the adultery rules as too strict and the 119 House members co-sponsoring a bill banning mixed-sex basic training. In the end, it may be best to let the generals and admirals, exploring unknown territory, figure it out for themselves. Speaking in her personal capacity, Captain Rosemary Mariner, the Navy's first woman tactical-jet pilot and the first female commander of an aviation squadron, suggests that the approach seems to have worked so far in her branch of the service. "When I came in 24 years ago, there was rampant sexual misconduct," she recalls. "Prosecutions...