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...show was the brainchild of an Eliot House junior, John Misha Petkevich, and with the help of the Jimmy Fund and Eliot House, it has become a major event in the national skating picture and in Jimmy Fund fundraising...
When John Misha Petkevich conective in the National Figure Skating Championships in Tulsa. Oklahoma, last month, he surprised the judges and spectators there by skating to "On the Waterfront" by Leonard Bernstein...
...Yugoslavia, again using his innovative program. Petkevich captured fifth place, and was chosen to give skating exhibitions with the other top skaters in a two-week tour of Europe. The tour included stops at Copenhagen, Prague, Berlin, and Geneva...
John, who's traveled over most of the United States for skating competitions, had been to Europe only once prior to this month. After what he describes as his best skating performance at the Nationals in 1968 in Philadelphia, Petkevich was named to the U. S. Olympic figure skating team. Then at Grenoble, France, he took sixth place among 24 other skaters...
After the 1972 Olympies and graduation. Petkevich plans to give up competitive skating and enter medical school. "I really have no desire to skate professionally like Peggy [Fleming] is doing now. I would probably only do that for two years or so, and instead I want to adequate a skill that will be with me the rest of my life." he said...