Word: golds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dick Button '52 entered Harvard. Like most freshmen, Button was good at something. His special talent was figure skating. Button came into Harvard having already won a gold medal in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland...
Fast forward to 1998--Button is in St. Moritz again, this time celebrating the 50th anniversary of his golden moment. Button can still recall the day he won his first gold medal as if it were yesterday...
Once he finished skating that day, Button became the first American to capture the gold medal in figure skating in Olympic competition...
Button won the U.S. and World Championships every year he was a student at Harvard and won his second Olympic gold in his senior year...
Button's second gold wasn't his only accomplishment that year. He also graduated cum laude in government...