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...Chapus calls the Harvard track experience paradoxical. "Every year there is a rumor that McCurdy will retire. Every year it doesn't happen. He'll never retire--at least not for those of us who ran for him. It's like saying that Harvard's endowment is going broke...
Having never run in a track meet. Chapus was a little apprehensive about going out for the sport. "I'll never forget my first freshman meet back in 1978. It was a cold day in a meet against Northeastern. I was supposed to run in the JV race, but someone got hurt so I was put in the varsity race. I ran out of absolute fear of the cold and the coach--I got first in the race and a stadium record that still stands to this day (21.6 in the 200 meter dash)." Chapus never played football again...
...Chapus calls McCurdy a deceptively smart man and an exceptional athlete, "I can honestly say that he is very...
Only one race was more unique in England two years ago. For Chapus--the Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard meet. A teamate, Lance Miller, was walking around with a mohawk haircut. "What a sight--the Scottish people at the meet nearly swallowed their bagpipes when they saw that," he recalls...
...would think that I would get the most satisfaction from the track records I've gained here, but I really don't. The most rewarding thing I've done at Harvard has been to participate in the NCAA Big Brother program," Chapus said. A big brother to three kids from the Kings School and Agassiz School in Cambridge, Chapus sees his friends once a week. "I take them to dinner at Winthrop House, or a movie or a Bruins game. What actors little kids are. You give them one sip of beer and they pretend that they are drunk...