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Junior Jim O'Neill captured the individual epee fencing title yesterday at the NCAA Championship held in South Bend Ind. His first-place finish made him the first Harvard athlete to garner a national individual championship, since pole vaulter Geoff Stiles nabbed the gold...
...epee title places O'Neill on the first-team All America squad...
Ranked fourth at NCAAs after compiling a 29-4 regular season record, O'Neill breezed through the national competition with a 17-1 record in the three-day tournament, including a tough one-point victory over defending champion Chris O'Loughlin of Penn...
...Neill retired from his congressional seat in 1986 after representing the Eighth Congressional District for 30 years. As speaker during the last decade of his tenure in the House, O'Neill raised his forceful voice against those who would forget our society's disadvantaged. He led the opposition to Reagan Administration plans that threatened Social Security and aid for education. When Reagan's popularity was at its height, O'Neill's opposition was politically costly, and the speaker was mercilessly lampooned in cartoons. Yet O'Neill's determination to maintain government as the champion of the disadvantaged never waivered...
...Neill, despite his national prominence, always lived by his adage, "all politics is local." He still has his hair cut at the same barbershop he patronized as a boy. Honoring O'Neill is the least Harvard could do to recognize its intimate relationship with the community and to display esteem for a Cambridge boy who has distinguished himself beyond need for additional honor...