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Sophomore Peter Campbell, one of the best swimmers on the Bruin squad, is the middle distance star. The school record holder in all three distance events (500, 1000, and 1650 yards), Campbell swam in the NCAA championships held last March...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Swim Team Will Meet Brown In Providence This Saturday | 1/9/1975 | See Source »

Junior tri-captain Richard Burrows is the best butterfly and individual medley swimmer on the squad. Burrows, whose best events are the 200 butterfly and the 200 and 400 individual medley, swam in the AAU nationals last year...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Swim Team Will Meet Brown In Providence This Saturday | 1/9/1975 | See Source »

Diana Borden, also a freshman, captured the 100-yard breaststroke and swam that leg of the medley relay...

Author: By Hugh M. Nesbit, | Title: 'Cliffe Swim Hopes Rest on Freshmen | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

Freshman Laurie Downey churned her way to victory and a qualifying time in the 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly, and the 100-yard backstroke. She also swam backstroke in the 200-yard medley relay team which beat the qualifying time by over six seconds...

Author: By Hugh M. Nesbit, | Title: 'Cliffe Swim Hopes Rest on Freshmen | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

...Thomas--but as his collection of kids' poems increased he would read in one class poems written in another. He noticed that P.S.61 was establishing its own literary tradition--an institutional salon of sorts. Thus a misspelled word triggered Koch's introduction to a metaphor. A child wrote "A swam of bees," instead of a "swarm." A first grader's poem: "I used to be a fish/But now I am a nurse," inspired a whole series of poems describing physical transformation like this...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Among School Children | 10/31/1974 | See Source »

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