Word: skips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blocked at Home. Finch helped organize Nixon's 1962 gubernatorial campaign, but even as Nixon lost, Finch started to get the political fever again. The political winds at the time were blowing hard toward Ronald Reagan, and a wiser Finch decided to skip the big contest and content himself with the lieutenant-governorship. In a surprisingly large victory, Finch succeeded in outpolling Reagan by about 100,000 votes. All through this period, Finch remained close to Nixon. When Nixon decided to run for the presidency in 1968, Finch was one of the first to start the wheels rolling...
...despite the demoralizing absence of gimpy Bob Galliers, Harvard's broad jumpers won all three places with Skip Hare in first with a 22' 6 1/2" jump...
...hurdles and dashes--and also the pole vault, now that Steve Schoonover is gone. The high jump and long jump are still questions. Junior Jim Coleman has the potential to become a 6'6" or 6'7" high jumper this year. Harvard's three long jumpers--Bob Galliers, Skip Hare, and John Avault--are back this year and could be good, but Galliers and Avault have each been hampered by injuries...
...played three varsity sports at Andover--quarterback in football, center in hockey, and catcher in baseball. The hockey team included Chris Gurry and Skip Freeman, both of whom play for Harvard's varsity, and Dick Delaney and Ford Fraker, who play...
Harvard showed talent on the front line where Bob Havern, Skip Barry, and Tom Paul played fine games, but the defense was neither quick enough or tough enough to stymie completely Bowdoin's offense...