Word: washburns
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THREE WEEKS ago, a Middlesex County judge sentenced Edward H. Washburn '64 to a five year suspended sentence and ordered him to refrain from associating with minors in a professional setting, perform 1000 hours of community service and contribute $5000 towards the therapy of his victims. The victims where three children, one of whom--a 13-year-old boy--Washburn raped...
Around Harvard, and indeed around much of Boston, the incident seems to have been accepted as something very unfortunate that now is best forgotten. No one likes to see someone as successful and privileged as Washburn fall into an unspeakably ugly situation. This man had everything going for him. He was the scion of a prominent Boston family, a member of Harvard's Class of 1964, a coxswain of a gold medal-winning Olympic crew team, and a respected coach at a prestigious preparatory school as well as Harvard. What more could a man ask of his society? Washburn asked...
...EXPLANATION for Washburn's light sentence seems to be that imprisoning one capable of contributions as great as those Washburn may yet make would be a disservice to society. The Middlesex County court was innundated with letters from prominent Bostonians--and 30 from Harvard students--praising Washburn as a wonderful man. His father, curator of the Museum of Science for more than 40 years and well-known philanthropist, is a wonderful man too. Why should such a family suffer? Haven't they already suffered enough? The heart just bleeds...
...Baumohl, Peggy T. Berman, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman...
...Baumohl, Peggy T. Berman, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman...