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...blond, healthy looking sons of Bremen you might bump into on Plymouth St. Tracy Elliott has got to be one of the most remarkable: an influential campaign manager in Zentz's organization by age 18, a former student leader and track star at Bremen High and the school's first graduate to attend Harvard Four years in Cambridge have not diminished Elliott's interest in Indiana politics nor improved his opinion of "limousine liberals" and "intellectual me tooism" But he admits to changing. He no longer calls himself conservative" and expresses sincere interest in some of the "big campus causes...
...university populated by more than its share of over achievers and self promoters. Elliott has chosen to keep Bremen as his point of reference. He is exceptional in having proudly remained what many undergraduates disdain as "typical," or worse, "middle American." While his classmates fretted over professional school applications. Elliott quietly engineered legislative campaigns back home and penned a fiery political column that ran in the weekly Bremen Enquirer. Along the way, he set aside plans for law school to explore a new interest in American educational philosophy. He will begin teaching this fall at a small private school...
...adventure in the big city," as Elliott puts it, has ended happily enough but not without a dark chapter. On top of Harvard's standard academic and social pressure, the visitor from the Midwest had to struggle with a mysterious illness that caused debilitating headaches and depression junior and senior years. His ultimately successful battle against the ailment, and in particular his self-diagnosis, only confirm the power of Bremen-style tenacity: "You just figure that there's got to be some way to beat that problem...
...Harvard had to down Temple for the second time to earn the right to challenge Maine again. With two down in the top of the ninth and Harvard trailing 2-0, sophomore Scott Vierra homered in Don Allard to knot the score. Junior Bruce Weller walked and third baseman Elliott Rivera doubled him home to give Bill Larson all the runs he would need for his eighth victory of the year...
While the second game's excitement came in the ninth. Harvard's four-run first inning dominated the opener. Center fielder Bruce Weller started things with a single, Elliott Rivers followed with a walk and Bauer loaded the bases on a fielder's choice. Martelli started his five-for-seven, six-RBI day with the first of his two triples, and Harvard led 3-0. Two outs later Jay McNamara's single scored Martelli and the Crimson had all the runs it would need...