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...came because there was a new, exciting institute that was being established,” said Hanna K. A. Mikkola, who became an assistant professor at UCLA after leaving Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. “I could see the energy at the institute. I could see this would be a very fruitful environment...
...last time there was a change at the helm of the Harvard track team was in 1950 when Bill McCurdy took over from Jasko Mikkola. Now, after 32 years of coaching, the 65-year-old McCurdy is retiring in favor of assistant coach Frank Haggerty...
...freshman's performance on the season was not entirely expected either, but his running was so outstanding it earned him all-Ivy status and the Mikkola Award for the most improved Harvard runner...
...University chose McCurdy to assist famed Jaakko Mikkola, whom he recalls as being "a great gentleman whose passion was track." When Mikkola died in 1952, the year he was to retire, the University made an understandable choice, naming his colleague and good friend Bill McCurdy head track coach...
...past years, some of the cash might have been contributed by track alumni, but fund drives in 1949, '50, and '52 (for former coach Jaakko Mikkola) have almost exhausted this source. With a hockey rink on the fire, a more general drive would never be approved, and quite probably would not succeed, even to the amount of $5000. The meet between the Crimson-Yale, Oxford-Cambridge teams has been tentatively scheduled for June 13, at Harvard Stadium, but as matters now stand, it would be just as safe to bet that the Academic Modern will hold a beauty contest there...