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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team didn't do quite as well his senior year, but Woolway--of course, the team captain--collected All League and All American honors. He corrects an error in the Harvard press guide that says he was number one in his class. "Not exactly valedictorian," he says. But close...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: To Harvard From the City of Angels | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...than once. Away from his large family (six brothers and sisters) for the first time, he says it was a "big adjustment period." Add to the transcontinental move a truncated freshman football season (two of six games were cancelled) and what seemed like "30 straight days of rain," and Woolway says he was "pretty unhappy." "I had never even used an umbrella before," the Angeleno laughs...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: To Harvard From the City of Angels | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...Woolway became involved with the Big Brother program. The program, long associated with Harvard athletes, places students and neighborhood children in long-term relationships. Calling it "one of the best things I've done here," Woolway now is one six student directors of the program...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: To Harvard From the City of Angels | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...result of all this is a frighteningly all-American picture. Red-haired, good-natured--at 6-ft. 3-in. and 205 lbs, he's a little too brawny for a Huck Finn comparison--Woolway has heard the all-American tag before...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: To Harvard From the City of Angels | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...lose, Woolway has always felt comfortable with the student-athlete life. "People who know me know how important academics are to me," the economics major says. And his future is certainly heavy on the academics: he plans to apply to Ivy League law schools this year, and maybe to a joint J.D.-MBA program later...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: To Harvard From the City of Angels | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

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