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...assistant to former varsity Coach Bob Pickett and a coach of the Harvard freshman team from 1956 to 1968, Lee assumed head coaching duties...
...music was onstage at the Apollo Theater, the Harlem home of funk and soul and rock 'n' roll, where many of the glittering lineup got their start. Diana Ross was there, having helicoptered in after two shows in Atlantic City. So were Smokey Robinson and Little Richard and Wilson Pickett, the Four Tops and Sarah Vaughan and Sammy Davis Jr. And dozens upon dozens of others. Joining in the homage were such white performers as Rod Stewart and Boy George. It seemed a once-in-a-lifetime concert, in aid of a venerated place...
...legmen for the individual Friends of organizations," says Club Secretary Robert Pickett, who has been affiliated with Harvard for 35 years in capacities which include coaching the wrestling and freshman football teams. The Varsity Club has taken on much more of an administrative than social role, he explains...
...Pickett says that the club spends much of its time soliciting money for the various Friends of groups to help pay for major expenses such as team "training trips." The baseball team's spring vacation trip to California, for example, will be paid for largely as a result of the Varsity Club's fund-raising efforts. The Varsity Club also helps attract future Harvard athletes by paying for high school sportsmen who come to look at Harvard...
...club is its changing membership requirements. Whereas it had once been open only to varsity athletes, the club has begun to admit junior varsity letter winners as well. "You don't even have to be a graduate of Harvard, let alone an ex-athlete to be a member," says Pickett...