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Seamus P. Malin '62 doesn't really lead a double life. It's just that his two main pastimes tend never to overlap. Consequently, almost none of his buddies in the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid have actually heard him announce a soccer game for the New York Cosmos--although they all say, politely, that they've heard he's very good. And among people who know Malin in his capacity as the pro soccer team's official commentator, it's unlikely that more than a few are fully aware of his duties in Harvard admissions or for this...
...Malin has been assistant dean of admissions and financial aid since 1977--a job that involves traveling to recruit, screening the regions of Washington, D.C. and Southern California for admits, and giving special attention to foreigners. He didn't start working with the Cosmos until 1978, when a bizarre coincidence brought up his name in a New York taxicab conversation between a Lipton tea magnate of his acquaintance and the Cosmos director of television coverage. Since then, the soccer job has been what he calls his "weekend getaway," peaking over the summer with the soccer season and necessitating an intimate...
Colleagues in the admissions office--notably L. Fred Jewett '57, who has been dean of admissions and financial aid throughout Malin's tenure as assistant dean--praise his experience, his stint contributing to dorm life as a senior advisor in Grays and then an assistant senior tutor in Lowell House, and his willingness to return to the temporary post he once held. But they look nonplussed when one inquires--timidly, since a negative answer would render the query so bizarre--whether he doesn't also radio-broadcast soccer. Malin himself laughs in a startled manner when the subject is broached...
...interest in the "weekend getaway" goes back as far as the ones that led him to his more visible career in Harvard's admissions office. As a high school senior in his native Dublin, Malin held down a broadcasting job for "Ireland's only radio station," a strictly amateur interest he expected to let slide. He would have gone on to the University of Dublin that year if his father, a journalist, hadn't unexpectedly landed a job with the Boston Globe. So Malin filed a late application to Harvard ("I know I got in no international distribution" he still...
Even before he became assistant varsity soccer coach in 1965, a post he held for 10 years. Malin had taken his "interest in soccer to rather extraordinary lengths," studying under German coaches in American and gaining a certification as a soccer coach after classes in Britian. It was while he was coaching soccer at Harvard in '66 that Channel 2 of Boston, which broadcasted college sports events, walked onto the playing field to ask him if he'd like...