Word: lassman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Spring no camp could have had prospects more pleasing than Camp Zakelo, Maine. Its director was Isadore Zarakov, celebrated onetime (1925-28) Harvard footballer and baseballer. Two of its counsellors were Alton K. ("Al") Marsters, last season's fleet Dartmouth quarterback, and Alfred C. ("Al") Lassman, husky All-American tackle for New York University in 1928. But gloom filled Zakelo a month ago. It was announced that "Al" Lassman had taken a canoe out at night in rough water, that the canoe had capsized, that Lassman had drowned (TIME, July 14). Director Zarakov did not deny rumors...
Last week, inspired by an anonymous letter which Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of N. Y. U had received, Albert B. ("Al") Nixon, graduate manager of N. Y. U. athletics, went to Camp Zakelo to look further into Lassman's death. Facts now known: Lassman's canoe, containing himself and three boys, upset one afternoon on Long Lake. He placed two of the boys on the overturned boat, brought the third within reach of another canoe which had sped to the rescue. Then, exhausted, Lassman sank. The three boys were taken ashore, kept silent...
...Lassman's mother revealed that, at 6 a. m. the day after her son drowned, she was telephoned by Zarakov's sister-in-law, who begged her just to "tell the newspapers that Al was a guest of the camp for a few days...
Died. Alfred C. ("Al") Lassman, 24, giant (6 ft. 4 in., 220 lb.) All-American football tackle in 1928, captain of that year's New York University team; by drowning; at Long Lake, near Harrison...