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Another unanimous Council vote came on a motion by Sullivan honoring the late P. James Cunniff. Equipment Manager for Harvard's Athletic Department...
...Cunniff remembered his childhood by doing favors for the kids in his neighborhood. He had a "personal payroll" for boys who wanted to carry equipment out to the playing fields, and at every football game he had 12 of them along as guests. Afterwards, he would introduce them to the players, and then quietly slip away...
...Jimmy was carrying on a tradition that he learned from Kerrey Corner, a small neighborhood between Harvard Square and Central Square where he grew up. Almost all the people who lived there had immigrated from Kerrey County in Ireland, and when Jimmy's father died, the neighbors helped Mrs. Cunniff raise her five children...
...Jimmy Cunniff's life was centered around Harvard, and his goal was to make Harvard athletics run as smoothly as possible. On the night before a home game, he was always on the job until nine or ten at night, and instead of travelling with the team for away games, he would arrive with the equipment truck the night before to make sure that nothing went wrong...
...Jimmy Cunniff's greatness was illsuited for this age. He did nothing that made front page news, and he wouldn't have done well on a TV talk show. As a result, thousands of people in the Harvard community never heard of him. And yet, more than anyone else, he personified the Christian tradition on which this university was founded...