Word: skaters
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...Almost every top skater in the past 15 years has participated in our show--before and sometimes, after they became famous," says Carl D. Shannon '87, one of the show's chairmen...
...fact, Wylie is currently the only male skater among the nation's top 10 who competes on the amateur level and attends college full-time. And he lives in Canaday...
Wylie is not the first skater to both compete regularly and attend classes at Harvard. While living along the river, Dick T. Button '52, somewhat of a legend in men's figure skating, held five major figure skating titles in 1949 simultaneously--including medals at the Olympics, World, National, North American and European competitions. Radcliffe captured its own share of skating glory when Tenley Albright '57 captured her fifth consecutive National Ladies' Title and second Olympic Gold Medal in 1956. Both of these Olympians naturally spent much of their time shuttling between the Yard and the historic Boston Skating Club...
...Dick Button was way ahead of his time," Wylie, his modern successor, says. "He was doing triple axels before people were doing all of the double [axels]. (A triple axel, by the way, is an ice skating maneuver in which the skater jumps off a single blade and completes two and one-half revolutions in midair before landing backwards on a single blade...
Another world-class skater at Harvard, Elise R. Davison '86-'87, sports as much experience in both the skating world and the Jimmy Fund. "Paul is a great example for young skaters who don't believe that you can mix skating with an education. It has either been one or the other in the past," she says. "He has a lot of determination to succeed in both worlds." Last year, Davison represented the United States in the professional World Figure Skating Competition held in Spain...