Word: oberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to crewmen, tensions began to mount on the Kitty Hawk almost as soon as Captain Marland W. Townsend Jr. took command in June. Formal and aloof, Townsend replaced Owen Oberg, a popular commanding officer who was given to moving among his crew and not above on occasion going over the side of the ship in a bosun's chair to wield a symbolic chip hammer. "He treated everyone as a minority of one," explained one sailor. Oberg had a way of sympathizing with the crew even when passing out an unpopular order, like the frequent extensions...
...Oberg Trophy, emblematic of the greater Boston championship, on Monday, taking 24 points. MIT was followed by Tufts, B.U., Harvard and Northeastern. George Putnam with Rick White as crew was fourth in Division A for the Crimson, while Dave Brownlee with Jeff Maas took a first on the way to a third-place tie in Division B. Chris Middendorf with Edgar Pulitzer was fourth in Division...
Radcliffe gained the President's Trophy and Harvard failed to defend its Oberg Trophy title in sailing regattas held at Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday...
Harvard ran away with the Oberg Trophy, symbolic of the Greater Boston championships, yesterday in a six-school field at M. I. T. All three Crimson skippers won their divisions to give Harvard a mere 33 points to 44 for the Engineers...
Harvard won the Oberg Trophy, offered twice a year, last fall, but has not won it in the spring for several years...