Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Coach Harry Parker wanted to send his men's crew team to Egypt in 1979 to race against the Cairo Police Department on the Nile, all he had to do was pick up the phone and give his team's top fundraiser, Nick Bancroft, a ring. Bancroft then put the proposal before the management committee of the Friends of Harvard Rowing--and the rowers were on their...
...Clara L. Bui '86, co-captain of the women's lightweight crew team, says that the men still receive some preferential treatment in terms of better uniforms, the number of training trips, and the amounts of money that cover spring break meals...
...order to reconcile the disparaging incomes of men's and women's friends groups, the friends took two different approaches. While most men's groups simply continued to supplement the women's income, the friends of crew and track opted for a different alternative...
While the Friends of Crew frequently aided the women's crew program before 1981, the process of actually bringing women onto the management committee was a slow one. In the annual awards banquet sponsored by the friends, "there wasn't even the question of inviting women to the dinner" in 1960, Bancroft says. In the mid-60s, only wives were allowed to attend the festivities while later in the decade rowers were allowed to be accompanied by "credited females," which meant a girlfriend of wife...
...after the Radcliffe crew program started, the alumni organization inaugurated the tradition of joint dinners for men and women. The final step of the merger occurred when the first woman was elected to the managing committee...