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...first three years as a Hoosier, the squad won the NCAAs, but never posted a relay victory. The most gratifying moment of his years of swimming for Doc Counsilman came when Hall anchored the Indiana 800-yd. free relay team which also included Gary Connolly, John Kinsella, and Freddie Tyler to a first place finish at the 1973 meet...
Shcramm's .57 split in the relay established a personal best as did his performance on the three meter board. His score of 337.85 was just 16.55 points short of the Blodgett Pool record set by Hoosier All-American Rob Bollinger and would have earned Schramm a silver medal in last week's meet against Indiana...
Diving coach Hobie Billingsley's acrobatic corps is undoubtedly the strongest challenge that Crimson divers Steve Schramm and Bob Mule will face this year before the championship season. Three Hoosier aerialists, Rob Bollinger, Niki Stajkovic, and Doug MacAskill placed among the top 12 at the NCAAs...
...fact, Wabash was little more than a sleepy hoosier hamlet whose forefathers picked up the town name from the local Indians. The Indians called it Ouabouigou, which means "shining white." Fittingly enough, in 1880 Wabash became the first town in the world to install electric street lights. An uninspired Ezra Pound pined away on the Wabash faculty until he was dismissed after allowing a destitute woman of ill repute to spend a night in his room, an act which offended the straightlaced morals of the town...
This transformation was wrought by Tim Kraft, the Hoosier with a Pancho Villa mustache who two months ago became the President's chief coordinator on political liaison and patronage. Kraft's job is to improve Carter's relations with Demo cratic Party officials and contributors, to help get the President's programs through Congress and to help get him re-elected in 1980. Although Kraft is one of the Pres ident's top staffers, he has re mained almost invisible. White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett reports on Kraft at work...