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FREE nside Celebrating Life After 50 1939 Buick Roadster, orthwest 2013 Inspiring Senior, N Iseniors walk for charity, reflecting on birthdays, and more SERVING THE PUGET SOUND REGION SINCE P1986 rimewww.NorthwestPrimeTime.com TimeVOL. 13 NO. 5 JUNE 2013 The Boys in the Boat New book telling the story of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team launches in Seattle this month; Hollywood movie is in the works ometimes a book comes After meeting Joe and listening to his story unfold, the author recalls, Salong that is a true gift. “As I talked with Joe, I noted that tears came readily to his eyes at certain The Boys in the Boat: Nine junctures. Men of his generation Americans and Their Epic Quest for don’t generally cry easily, so I knew Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by immediately that there was something Seattle-area author Daniel James Brown, is one of those books. … the nine American “This book was born on a cold, drizzly, late spring day when I kids dressed in ragged clambered over the split-rail cedar old sweatshirts and fence that surrounds my pasture and made my way through wet woods to mismatched shorts the modest frame house where Joe Rantz lay dying.” racing against So begins The Boys in the Boat— regimented blond the irresistible, dramatic, and poignant story behind the triumph of the oarsman in crisp white University of Washington American rowing team that stunned the world at uniforms with swastikas Hitler’s Olympics. on their chests Brown was introduced to Joe Rantz and his story on a chance extraordinary going on…I began to encounter with his neighbor, Joe’s see that all the elements of a great daughter Judy. “One day about six tale were there—intense competition years ago, my neighbor, a lady in her between individuals, bitter rivalries mid-sixties who I knew only as Judy, between schools, a boy left alone came up to me after a homeowners’ in the world, a fiercely demanding association meeting. She said her coach, a wise mentor, a love interest, father, who was in the last weeks of even an evil step-mother. But I think his life and under hospice care at her what really clinched it for me was the house, was reading one of my earlier simple fact that the climax to the story books. He was enjoying it and she played out on an enormously dramatic wondered if I would come by and stage—the 1936 Olympics in Berlin— meet him. Of course I said yes.” and it played out under the gaze of Hitler himself. Really, what more could a storyteller ask for?” After being mesmerized by Joe’s (top) University of Washington varsity crew, gold medal winners at the 1936 story and that of the unlikely crew, Olympics in Berlin, photo courtesy University of Washington Libraries, Special Brown asked Rantz if he could tell the Collections Division; (above) “The Boys in the Boat” by Seattle-area author Daniel tale. Rantz agreed, but admonished, James Brown details the dramatic and poignant story behind the triumph of the UW “But not just about me. It has to be rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler’s Olympics. The national book tour launches this month in Seattle about the boat.” By “the boat” he meant the whole crew and the strands of affection that bound them together. Gordon Adam, Chuck Day, clothe themselves. So in that sense Brown shows tremendous respect Don Hume, George “Shorty” Hunt, they served as a model—something for the memory of all the individuals, Jim “Stub” McMillin, Bob Moch, you could identify with if you were arguably one of the greatest crew Roger Morris, Joe Rantz, John White, struggling yourself. This perception teams of all time, and their underlying Jr.—these were the boys in the boat, grew even more acute when they determination to be a part of the #1 the University of Washington’s 1936 began to compete against the often boat. crew, a team that transformed the very wealthy boys at Ivy League sport and grabbed the attention of schools in the East. And then even millions of Americans in the depths more when they began to compete of the Depression. The sons of loggers, against the aristocratic British boys shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys from Oxford and Cambridge. And defeated elite rivals first from eastern most of all, of course, when they (above) Joe Rantz, one of the boys and British universities and finally the competed against the hand-picked in the boat, is at the emotional heart German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler Nazi oarsman in Berlin. The stark of the story, photo courtesy Judith in the Olympic Games in Berlin. contrast was brought face-to-face by Willman; (right) Seattle-area author “Almost any ordinary American the nine American kids dressed in Daniel James Brown was introduced could identify with them,” notes ragged old sweatshirts and mismatched to Joe and the story on a chance Brown, “particularly in economic shorts racing against regimented blond encounter with Joe’s daughter, his terms. 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