Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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lightweight: a shell with a specific weight limit. For men, the boat must average 150 pounds per oarsman. For women, the average must be 129.5 pounds...
This spring, as has happened every spring since 1852, the young oarsman's thoughts turn to Red Top or The Ferry, depending on where he goes to school...
...Washburn training surfaces. Before any rejoicing begins, the oars are removed from the river, arranged on the dock and hosed off to cleanse them of the enemy water. The shell is lifted from the water and lovingly laid on its sawhorses. Then, and only then, does a single oarsman lift high the dripping wet blue jersey he has stripped from the back of his competitor, calling for his parents' recognition...
Hindsight rarely brings solace for the devoted oarsman. The Race will be run and lost in his mind throughout the summer and the following year. It will become an obsession. It is not until the evening after the lost Race that the pleasure of the sport itself slowly seeps back into the body, when the celebrants honor the victors among them who perhaps rarely win the races that are conducted on the river...
Michael R. Willis '87'-88, a varsity oarsman proposed this expenditure three weeks...