Word: hamline
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple split because, in Hamlin's words, "we grew apart." He had left the Marines in 1976 and attended Riverside Junior College in California. He performed well, applying his military-bred sense of detail to his courses. Hamlin wanted to go further, so he decided to transfer. "I asked my guidance counselor, 'What's the best school?' I had joined the Marines because it was the best outfit. He said, almost jokingly, 'Well, the real best is Harvard.' It was the only place I applied...
...days after he'd heard of his admission and a week before he was slated to give Riverside's valedictory address, Hamlin shattered his leg in a severe highway accident. The break, however, did not prevent him from giving the address in a wheelchair and a full-leg cast. "I would've crawled up onstage if I'd had to," he recalls...
Having progressed from directionless in high school to highly-motivated in the Marines and academically confident at Riverside. Hamlin "turned to people and a global perspective" at Harvard. "I felt like I had made it, that it was all over," he says. "It wasn't." But he knew "they weren't going to stump me on any exam or catch me off guard," and he proceeded to "cultivate and cash in on contacts and connections." He sums up his philosophy about the University by declaring: "If you want Harvard to take care of you, you have to seek...
...Harvard, Hamlin aggressively cultivated both academic and social contacts. As treasurer of the D.U. (one of Harvard's finals clubs), he made a connection that saved his father's life. Hamlin's normally powerful voice lowers to a reverent tone as he tells the story. "My dad had had his right lung removed because of cancer and six unsuccessful operations on his left lung. I was talking with [eardiologist] Dr. Powell at a D.U. club function, and he referred me to Dr. Herman Grillo, the leading bronchial tracheologist...
...Hamlin made contacts of a much less serious nature during a one-year stint in Quincy House and he retains several fond memories. He says his advanced age did not bother him that much, though he was disturbed by what he terms "some immaturity...