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...According to Jack P. Reardon Jr. ’60, who was Harvard’s director of athletics in 1982, the blaze—accidentally set by a straggler who had taken to living in the press box—was just one in the long line of proverbial cries for help from a facility desperately in need of repair...
...Through the years, it didn’t get a lot of attention,” Reardon says. “From time to time, an engineering crew would come through and make sure it was okay. One of those engineering studies suggested it wasn’t okay, and if we didn’t do anything to get it in shape, we’d lose it in a few decades...
...renovation expenditures of 1982 were double those of the $5 million project 25 years later.But, Reardon says, the tab could have been much larger...
...figured that if we started this in April, we could get it done by the end of the season the following fall,” Reardon says. “We had to play sold-out for the Yale game, and the year before the seats weren’t in. I told the contractor, ‘Your reputation’s on the line now, you’re going to be in the headlines if you don’t get it done.’ But we got it done...
...think Ted doesn’t have an opportunity,” he says. Nonetheless, Reardon adds, “He’d have a chance to write a class report...All our alumni would be given materials...