Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Friends of Rowing has been able to maintain its high level of amenities by supporting an endowment which sets it "in a class by itself," Bertagna says. He would not comment on why the endowment, which nears $1 million, is so large but adds that "crew is not a blue-collar sport." While that $1 million endowment generates about $30,000 every year for the rowers, Bancroft says, the Friends annually raise another $30,000 or so in contributions...
...Friends of Rowing, founded more than 30 years ago to ensure that Harvard's oldest sports team was well equipped and had the opportunity to travel, has been able to fund all trips and vacation practices which the crew has needed, Coach Parker says...
...year, Friends of Rowing can, for instance, purchase brand new shells for the teams. This year the alumni group spent $12,000 for a shell which will be dedicated to J. Paul Austin '37--and then contributed another $2000 for a pair of oars. In addition, they have sent crew teams overseas for competitions like the World Championships in Moscow in 1973. The friends also pay for the cost of meals--at $60 a head--over spring break when the crew teams stay in Cambridge for practices. As far as recruiting high school seniors, Bancroft says...
...Friends' expendituresvary from year to year depending on the success of Harvard's crews. The Friends could spend as much as $30,000 in a year to cover travel expenses alone, Bancroft says. The most expensive junket the teams took was in 1979 when the Friends sent a crew team to Egypt to race on the Nile against Yale and the Cairo Police...