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What’s Inside Bulletin No. 23

• Great Dome Award to MITCAA • Alumni/ae Spotlight • Fund raising update • We thank our donors • !Squaring the Blade! IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

The coaches’ newsletter, Squaring the Blade, is announced and made available only on the internet, hence those crew alums who don’t have that access don’t receive it. We’re experimenting in this Bulletin with including it in our hard copy version being USPS mailed to those MITCAA members and others who have told us they prefer to get it that way. The current Squaring the Blade starts on Page 17.

UPCOMING MITCAA EVENTS

One of these events is on April 21 in Cambridge, when all 4 MIT Crews will be competing on the Charles River. The MITCAA is hosting a breakfast at the Alumni Association Building at 600 Memorial Drive, and there will also be refreshments at the MIT Boathouse. You can sign up for this "Day on the Charles" by filling out the form at http://www.mitcrew.org/DayOnTheCharles.html . Or you can contact Mark Barron at [email protected].

Other events, which are still being planned, are alumni gatherings at the men's EARC Sprints in Worcester, MA (May 13), and the women's Dad Vails in Philadelphia, PA (May 11-12) and EAWRC Sprints in Camden, NJ (May 13). Details will be coming soon, but in the meantime if you have questions or comments contact Mark Barron at [email protected] . We are looking for volunteers to help coordinate the Camden EAWRC Sprints on May 13, so if you can lend a hand please contact Cynthia Lin at [email protected].

HEAD OF THE CHARLES CORRECTION

We regret the inadvertent exclusion of the following information from the Head-of-the-Charles / MIT Alums Wrap-Up article by Cynthia Lin in the last bulletin.

Participant Name MIT Event Team Name Seat Place Adjusted Time Rowing Class Peter Billings 1973 11-Alumni Eights Men MIT Grad Crew Bow 29 17:52.85 Matthew Coates 1998 11-Alumni Eights Men MIT Grad Crew 3 29 17:52.85 Robert Lentz 1998 11-Alumni Eights Men MIT Grad Crew 2 29 17:52.85 Tara (Tyndall) Neider 1983 6-Senior Masters Women Eight Alexandria Crew Boosters 7 9 19:12.04 Don Saer 1971 11-Alumni Eights Men MIT Grad Crew 8 29 17:52.85 Larry Sweet 1974 11-Alumni Eights Men MIT Grad Crew 5 29 17:52.85 Guillermo Vicens 1970 11-Alumni Eights Men MIT Grad Crew Cox 29 17:52.85 1

This award was made possible by your continuing support, encouragement, and enthusiasm for crew at MIT. The MITCAA board of directors congratulates you and thanks you.

ALUMNI/AE SPOTLIGHT

by Cynthia Lin

The idea for a periodically recurring feature article in the Bulletin-- - Alumni/ae Spotlight -- is the brainchild of Cynthia Lin’07, an MITCAA board member. In her words, “I thought it’d be neat for the broader MIT rowing community to get acquainted with their fellow rowers and coxswains, and learn about what they have been up to since graduation. After all, we are the alumni association of MIT crew. If you would like to be featured in an upcoming Bulletin or if you want to recommend a fellow rower/coxswain, please contact me, at [email protected]”

“I had the pleasure of exchanging a few emails with Linda Muri ’86 this year and I think she’s a fantastic person for this first piece. She has seen the rowing world from a variety of perspectives (competitive rower, boat builder, coach) and I think we can each relate to an aspect of her experience. She’s been coaching the Harvard's freshman lightweight men’s team for the past 10 years and led them to a 10-0 lightweight freshman dual record and an EARC silver medal in 2010.”

And when, by chance, her first target turned out to be Linda Muri we pounced on the opportunity to append a companion piece we ran out of space to include in Bulletin 21.

(1) Tell me a little bit about your involvement with rowing over the years. From your time at MIT, to your transition to competitive training and racing, and finally to coaching at Harvard.

I never anticipated rowing before I came to MIT, although I do remember that the prospective student information booklet had either sailing or rowing on it which made me think MIT would be a good place to go to school. I had other sports in mind and just planned to follow the same path as in high school, more or less – Field Hockey, Basketball, and Track or Softball. (There was no Track & Field team my freshman year and a few of us women were part of the Club team. I remember only one meet – not enough fun.)

Through living at pika, I was picked up for Class Day (the fall Intramural race among dorms and ILGs) by some of my housemates who rowed. I thought it was a lot of fun, and I like them, so starting to row made sense. However, my first morning practice with the team in a barge put me off rowing for another year. So, another Class Day, and like I said, not enough enjoyment from the other sports, and I rallied to give it another try. I talked my roommate, Nancy Walworth ‘85 to join with me and we started in late November after the last fall race of the season, a couple of days before indoor training began.

I really enjoyed the training and competition. My novice year, we raced all kinds of traditional Cup races, all the Eastern Sprints schools, just like the men – Radcliffe & Brown, Princeton & Yale, Rutgers, Boston University & Northeastern. The tradition of the sport totally appealed to me. I got so caught up in it, that I tried out for the National Team in 1984 after two years of rowing and got invited to Selection Camp. By the time I graduated, though, we were only racing Division III schools and I felt totally betrayed and let down. On top of it, we didn’t win a race my last two years on the team.

I wanted more, and decided to learn to scull and see how far I could get after graduating. It took some time for me to figure out how hard I actually could train and how hard I needed to train to succeed at the National and International level, but all that appealed to me about rowing at MIT was there again after graduating.

The way I ultimately got into coaching was fairly round about. Coaching initially was something I picked up my senior year. We practiced in the mornings, I didn’t have any labs, and my afternoons were free. I decided to apply for a coaching job at the Middlesex School in Concord, MA. They tried to get me to run the whole program, but I made the sane decision for everyone involved to only be an assistant coach. I thought it was great, felt like I was giving back to the sport, but I never thought it would be my profession. I continued to dabble as a coach, mostly in learn-to- row programs. While I was training for the National Team, I knew I needed to have a plan for retirement and the engineering seemed unlikely to fit the bill. I’d enjoyed teaching and working in classrooms with young people, so teaching made sense. After I finished my Masters in Education, I had to pass up on a few high school physics positions because my Worlds Competition schedule didn’t allow me to hit the start date for the academic calendar. Then, my future husband and I moved to Ithaca, NY, so he could go to the Johnson Business School at Cornell. I planned to keep training and finally get into the classroom through substitute teaching and/or tutoring. It turns out, Cornell was still looking for a coach two weeks into the school year and they contacted me about applying. A few months into the position, and I was hooked – I knew that coaching was what I wanted to do. After my husband finished school, we thought about where we could move so he could find a job. I wound up with offers from the Yale women and the Harvard lightweight men. We both loved living in Boston, so it was an easy decision.

(2) Why did you pick MIT for your undergrad?

Having grown up never more than a 7-hour drive from Boston wherever we lived, I liked the idea of living on the east coast or at least the northeast. I definitely researched schools where there was strong engineering academically, and where there were active athletic programs. Biomedical or Aerospace Engineering appealed to me as avenues to becoming an astronaut or at least involved with the Space Program. My parents took me to visit most of the schools I applied to, but MIT clicked both on paper and in person. Well, Brown did, too, but we know how that turned out. I actually didn’t make my decision until the very last day possible and did everything I could to keep away from a coin-flip.

(3) Programs want to field the strongest and fastest crews. On the issue of recruitment, how should rowing programs balance the environment to encourage and invite “walk-ons” vs. training experienced high school “recruits”?

It is important to encourage the walk-ons to field a strong team. Rowing is a late-entry sport, and if you can pick up a contributor every year from that group, it is a bonus – a great athlete and a new perspective on the

4 sport. Recruiting is challenging, at best, and the small numbers any school brings in means an error in judgment or a recruit decides to move on, and you’ve got a big hole to fill.

(4) What is the proper programmatic balance between retention vs. recruitment (includes recruiting walk-ons and high school students)?

Retention is the key to any program’s success. The more numbers at the base of the program, the higher the top of the program will achieve. One need only look at the most successful programs in the country, including peer institutions, to see that the best programs have the biggest numbers.

(5) The MIT Crew Alumni Association is heavily focused on fundraising for the MIT crew programs. What additional roles do you think would be valuable for MITCAA to take on, beyond fundraising, to strengthen the rowing program and alumni network?

Fundraising is key, of course. Making a presence at events which are attended by the undergraduates can do a lot to strengthen the program and alumni network. Whether it is the fall dinner or a tail-gate after a spring race, meeting and mingling with the alumni has a serious impact on the undergraduates. They can share stories and bond over the very hard training associated with rowing, plus see what happens after graduation, maybe make a few key connections. It’s the same as retention – having a large alumni presence or network is the hallmark of strong programs.

(6) Student-athletes (and club athletes who work full time) sometimes underestimate the importance of time management, eating well, and sleeping. Sometimes it’s hard to prioritize, or simply say no to activities or responsibilities. What advice do you have for rowers who are in that situation?

That’s a tough one. When you’re 18, 19, 20, you feel immortal and know everything. Couple that with the drive, determination, and prior success necessary to get into MIT, and it’s hard to tell them anything. (ha-ha) Coaches can do the most, though, by keeping tabs on the students. Checking in with them and being aware of what their advisors are telling them (or not telling them) can help the students make better choices.

As an aside, I’m not a fan of the term student-athlete. It was coined by the NCAA, for one thing, to separate the athletes from the non-athletes, and to replace the phrase “dumb jock.” We don’t talk about student-actors, student-reporters, or student-researchers. I find it belittling to label someone whose spare time is devoted to athletic pursuits.

(7) What advice can you give to potential competitive rowers and potential coaches?

For rowers, it is pretty simple. They should do what their coaches tell them to do, and when they are in the boat, they should do everything they can to make the boat better (faster, more balanced) for everyone else in the boat knowing that everyone else is doing the same thing. Coaches should have a strong sense of humor and a lot of patience.

(8) What are your favorite cross-training exercises and activities to do in your spare time? Cross training – I still like to run the Harvard stadium, and just running is another of my very favorite non- rowing exercises. Knitting, which I started while I was at MIT, is one of my favorite non-athletic activities, at least, so far, I have not, fortunately, found any competitive knitting venues. Reading and playing with my dog are also at the top of my list.

(9) Anything else you want to mention to the readers?

If you can get involved in youth sports, do so. Those children and teenagers need caring, responsible adults to guide them through the important development that should happen through youth sports.

More on Linda can be found at: http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mcrewlw/coaches/muri_linda

This interview of Linda Muri’85 by Shawn Peters first appeared in the Boston Sunday Globe of October 7, 2010. We have permission from the author to reprint it and Linda’s approval to include it in this bulletin. As many of you know Linda is one of only a very few alums who have won multiple medals in international world class competition (as you will note below). She served two terms on our board of directors only a few years ago.

Last year and in 2010 Linda coached National Team boats that medaled in Under 23 World Championship Regattas. Last year the LM1x won bronze, and in 2010 the W2-, the W4-, AND the W8+ won gold, a feat never before accomplished.

MY GUYS

By Shawn Peters

Coaching men doesn't faze champion rower Linda Muri, who's prepping Harvard's freshman lightweight men for the Head of the Charles.

What's your educational background?

I went to MIT; I have a bachelor's in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. And I went to Harvard for graduate school; I have a master's of education.

So you know how to make planes and boats and kids go?

Right.

What championships have you won? Linda Muri on her way to a practice session. Photo courtesy of Igor Belakovskiy ‘01

From the world championships, I have three golds, a silver, and bronze, and from the Pan Am Games, I have a silver - and a handshake from Fidel Castro.

What's the difference between coaching men and women?

My snarky response is usually, "Well, let's see. You have to get the oar in the water. You've got to push the boat past the oar. You've got to get your boat past the finish line first." There's no difference. I am not one who will ever swear at my crew. I know there are coaches out there who say, "You can swear at the men." I've had men on my teams cry, and I'm not swearing at them. I don't do it differently because I'm coaching men.

Should there be more women coaching men on a collegiate level? Are there any sports where you don't think it would be appropriate?

As long as you know the sport, it shouldn't matter what kind of chromosomes you have.

Do you have a coaching philosophy?

One of the first things I talk to the guys about each year is respect. There is a zero-tolerance policy for not respecting people.

Do you think being a female authority figure in these young men's lives allows you to affect how they relate to and view women?

Absolutely. There's not enough women in leadership roles. I've got a sign in my locker room: "10 ways to prevent men's violence against women." It's up there. I'm working at it. Maybe 18 guys a year are having their consciousness raised.

Ever been accused of being too "soft" or "easy" on your rowers simply because you're a woman?

One of our rowers, he would say it to my face. I had to give him credit for that. He said: "Linda, you're a woman. You can't possibly know what it means to compete." Last year, he asked if I could coach him [for a national team tryout]. I took that as a breakthrough.

If a chance to be a coach on the national team came up, would it matter to you if it were the men's team or women's team?

It wouldn't, but part of me feels that by coaching a men's team, I think I might be opening a door for other people to follow, and I don't really mind doing that.

Any advice for other women who'd like to coach men's teams?

Put on your thick skin and keep going.

7 MITCAA FUNDRAISING UPDATE By Mark Barron ‘64 FY 2012 Donation Status Summary The 2012 donations through the end of March totaled slightly more than $676,000, which compares well to prior years although that number is inflated by 2 generous donations for establishment of endowments for rowing shells. More info about those follows later on this page. A distribution of the gifts to the various funds is shown in the pie-chart on the right. The three coaching funds (Frailey, Resch and Zwart) have received donations totaling a little over $237,000 since July, 2011.

New Shell Endowments Two new crew shell endowments came in at the end of December that added $264,000 to the donations for the other shell endowments: The Grayce B. Kerr Fund gave $57,000 with a pledge of an additional $150,000 to create the Collin Scarborough III ‘52 endowment. We thank Breene Kerr ’51 - Chair Emeritus, Sheryl Kerr – Chair, and John Valliant – President of the Grayce B. Kerr Fund for making that donation possible. Collin Scarborough III ’52, for whom the endowment is named, passed away on June 8, 2011. He was a Varsity Men’s Lightweight oarsman, and had served as Life Emeritus Trustee on the Board of Directors of the Grayce B. Kerr Fund. Breene Kerr, a fellow Board Collin Scarborough III (circled) - stroke of the 1949 Freshman LWs member with the Fund, was a fraternity brother of Collin (Phi Delta Theta) and rowed Varsity Men’s Heavyweight.

The second endowment was created by Doug Barnard ’79 who gave $207,000 to establish a perpetual fund for the purchase of crew shells. Doug was a Varsity Lightweight oarsman. He currently lives in Winnetka, Illinois and is Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of CF Holdings Industries, Inc. Doug received a BS degree in Physics from MIT, and then went on to obtain a JD degree from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. The MITCAA is extremely grateful for Doug’s generosity. Doug Barnard (’79)

8 Expendable Funds Need Help Need by 6/30/12 While the overall total of funds raised through the first 3 quarters of FY2012 have been strong, we are falling short of donations to the two Expendable Funds – the Friends of MIT Crew Operations Fund (FOMITC - # 3855200) and the Women’s Crew Fund (#2641700). The MITCAA supports 54% of the annual crew budget, with about 30% coming from payouts from the various endowment funds, Raised thru March and the remainder provided by the Expendable Funds. This year the crew is drawing down $300,000 from the Expendable Funds account, but as of March 31 we only had $156,000 in donations to replenish that drawdown. We need your help to raise the additional $144,000 that is needed by June 30 in order to maintain the available funds balance. So give whatever you can, and make your gift to either of the two Expendable Funds as numbered above. The Focus Endowments How are the other endowments doing against their fund-raising goals? The chart below shows the percentage of donations and pledges received versus the fund goals.

The Jack H. Frailey ‘44 Director of Crew Fund (#3651051) is currently 55.6% of the way toward reaching its goal of $1 million. The fund is used to support the compensation and benefits of the Director of Crew. The Gerrit W. Zwart Endowment Fund (#3666900) is at about 63% of the fund goal of $2 million. This fund is used to support the compensation and benefits of the Men’s Lightweight Varsity Coach. The Richard J. Resch ‘61 Freshman Coach Fund (#3660040) is at 65% of the fund goal of $2 million, thanks in large part to a $1 million contribution from Dick Resch. This fund provides compensation to the four freshman/novice coaches.

9 The James B. McMillin Leadership Fund (#3658955) is at 27% of its goal of $1 million. This fund is used to provide the financial support to identify, attract, promote the matriculation, and encourage participation in crew of qualified athletes. Many alums are reluctant to donate to this fund, feeling that the MIT Crew program can compete using only walk-ons, as was typical of most schools prior to the 1980’s. However, today a crew program cannot be competitive without identifying and attracting experienced rowers who are graduating from high school. When you make donations to crew, please consider giving to this very important fund! The Roseanna H. Means ‘76 Crew Shell Endowment Fund (#3652080) is only at 8% of its goal of $125,000. This fund, when fully endowed, will support the ongoing purchase of women’s crew shells. This fund has also struggled to receive donations, but it is important for providing the women crew athletes with the best equipment so that they can be competitive. Please support the women!

The “Big Reunion” Years What are the Big Reunion Years? They are the ones that mark milestones in our lifetime. MIT defines the Big Reunions as the 25th, 40th and 50th. For this year Big Reunions are the classes of 1962, 1972, and 1987. Congratulations to the 133 crew alums that will be celebrating the Big ones this year => Thirty-seven from 1962, forty-five from 1972, and sixty-nine from 1987. What is special about the Big Reunion Years? For those class years, all gifts for the five years leading up to the actual reunion year count toward the Reunion Class Gift. Gifts to all MIT funds, such as any of our crew funds (Friends of Crew; Frailey; Zwart; Resch; Women’s Crew; etc.) are counted toward your Reunion Class Gift total. For example, if you are Class of ‘66 with your 50th reunion coming up in June 2016, your gifts to crew for FYs ‘12,’13,’14, ’15 and ’16 all will be credited toward your 50th Reunion Class Gift . So the 945 alums in the classes of 1962-1966, 1972-1976, and 1987-1991 all are able to make donations to crew now in 2012 and have them count toward their Big Reunion Class Gift!

All 2012 gifts from these class years count toward a Big Reunion Class Gift.

Further, if you make a pledge in your reunion year, payable over the next five years AFTER the reunion, the PLEDGE also counts in the Reunion Class Gift total. Inclusive, generous counting periods and rules allow BIG reunion classes to appeal to a broad base of classmates over an extended period of time to support what they care about so they can participate in the class gift. Bottom line, if you are within five years of your 25th,40th or 50th reunion, all of your contributions and pledges to MIT Crew will make class gift heroes of you and your Class Agent. If you receive a solicitation from your agent or another classmate, just tell him or her “I’m a supporter of MIT Crew, and I already gave.”

10 There Is Still Time To Get A DVD In the last bulletin (#22 December 2011) we told you about a DVD produced by the MITCAA in honor of the 101st anniversary of crew as a varsity sport at MIT, and which celebrates Jack Frailey’s 70 years of affiliation with MIT Crew. As a thank-you, the DVD is being given to all donors to MIT Crew who contribute $50 or more during the MIT 2012 fiscal year. As of the end of February over 400 alums and family members have met that milestone and should already have received a copy of the DVD. We still have copies for those who contribute by June 30, 2012, so be sure to get yours. Those not already receiving their DVDs will receive their thank-you copy in July. Thanks goes to the alums from the 1960’s for donating their time and money to make this DVD available to all alumni/ae!

How to contribute to MIT Crew Even though the economy has rebounded from its depths in 2009, many of us are still feeling squeezed – investments have not yet regained their peak value, housing values are depressed, and some have had their careers impacted. So digging into ones pockets to help the young people at MIT remains, but the contributions are needed more than any time in the past. We ask that you help by contributing today whatever you can – the crew program really needs it! You can make a pledge or charge a gift to your credit card on the Internet by following these instructions: Go to the M.I.T. website for alumni gifts: http://giving.mit.edu. In the upper right search box type the fund number (e.g. 3855200 for the FOMITC Expendable Fund), click on the “SEARCH” button and then select the top search result on the right to navigate to the gift form. From there you can make your gift online. If you prefer to mail in a donation, click on the “Ways to Give” button at the top of the above MIT Website, and follow the link that corresponds to your preferred method of giving. If you mail in a donation, be sure to include a note designating your desired Crew Fund (e.g. FOMITC Fund, no. 3855200) as the recipient. Some of us have elected to make our donations in the form of multiyear pledges in order to make it a little easier to contribute, but no matter how you elect to contribute the important thing is that you do. You can also use the gift envelope you receive from the Alumni Association, or simply mail a check to MIT, stating your gift designation by fund number or title, to: MIT Alumni Fund, 600 Memorial Drive, Room W98-200, Cambridge, MA 02139. If you prefer, you can make gifts of stock or include the crew program in estate planning. To get more information on these alternatives, call (617) 253-5048 or (617) 253-6463 respectively. You can greatly increase your contribution by taking advantage of company matching programs. Your gifts to MIT are 100% tax-deductible! Contributions are credited to the contributor AND their designated graduating class.

11 WE THANK DONORS FOR THEIR GIFTS TO MIT CREW IN CALENDAR 2011, FROM JANUARY 1, 2011 THRU DECEMBER 31, 2011

The names and gifts below were provided us by the Alumni Association. We apologize if your name is missing, your placement in a certain giving category is incorrect, or if your’s was a gift from multiple related donors. But due to space and formatting considerations we have had to limit the donor recognitions below to alumni and alumnae.

$100,000+ $1,000-$2,499 $500-$999 $250-$499 $100-$249 Class of 1964 Douglas C Barnard '79 James H Latimer '63 Howard A Jacobson '48 Amy C Gieffers '97 Jeffry K Berner '84 John E Liess '68 Charlene C Kabcenell '79 Joan S Gildin '73 Rebecca L Berry '95 $50,000-$99,999 Peter Paul Luce '54 Dirk A Kabcenell '75 Howard S Gleason '43 Peter F Billings '73 George S Dotson '62 John M Malarkey '71 Naomi J Kagetsu '82 Herbert G Herrmann '64 H. Richard Blieden '57 Catherine L Markham '81 Karsten August Kallevig '99 John E Jaynes '77 George W Blossom '79 $25,000-$49,999 Michael D McNamee '76 Andrew D Kellen '84 Emma C Jeffries '11 Burt W Blum '53 Johan H Magnusson Gedda '81 James A Monk Jr '64 Stanley S Kolodkin '54 L Robert Johnson '63 Elizabeth Bradley '83 $10,000-$24,999 Percy L Nelson '47 Steven P Larky '84 Stephen Allen Jordan '74 John P Bradshaw Jr '54 Berton D Barrington '66 Thaddeus S Nowak Jr '71 Robert Dowling Lentz '98 Elaine Kant '73 William J Brady '57 Erik P Nygaard '83 James K Littwitz '42 Laura Lynn Beecroft Kramer '91 David L Brodeur '98 $5000-$9,999 Dustin P Ordway '73 Susan G McDermott '87 Michael C La Bouff '82 Carrick Brooke-Davidson '78 Harvey E Bines '63 Barbara K Ostrom '78 Diane M McKnight '75 Adam S Lechner '92 Mike Brose '58 James H Donovan '89 Raymond L Pfau '66 Alex B Min '91 Jere B Leffler '73 Charles J Bruggemann '62 Thomas W Folger '48 Richard J Potash '81 Ralph Nauman '74 Bryan Lewis '70 Erik L Burgess '91 Robert T Haslam '68 Paul B Rothman '80 William Hugh Nelson '66 Hans-Georg Liemke '94 David A Campanella '76 George T Haymaker Jr '59 Michael J Rowny '72 Stephen Nord '69 Jeanna Q Liu '07 Alice E Campbell '78 Alan S Henricks '72 Christopher R Ryan '69 David T Okamoto '85 Gregory G Loboda '92 Steven J Carbone '95 Richard A Inz '76 Mike Scott '73 David V Payne '83 Kurt A Locher '88 Corey D Chaplin '79 Jesse Lipcon '65 W Cooper Scott '61 John P Proctor Jr '65 William W Malecki '88 Daniel M Chernoff '82 Steve Meszaros '85 Howard W Seidler '80 William A Ribich '64 Roger D Marian '70 Don A Christensen '52 Paul H Rothschild '58 J Curtis Shambaugh '61 William H Ryder '68 Sandra L McCarley '80 Karen L Cianciulli '88 Robert N Sawyer '56 Richard P Simmons '53 Roy M Sachs '51 Robert T Menzies '65 Donald E Cleveland '49 Robert E Vernon '63 Holly L Simpson '92 John R Saxe '49 Guillermo Peschard Mijares '94 Richard T Cockerill '66 Dennis E Womack-Kalla '67 Peter W Staecker '64 Michael P Schmidt-Lange '97 Marco A Morales '93 Edward A Colbeth '53 George L Zimmerman '62 John H Suhrbier '61 Brian D Schumacher '66 Michael Jay Newman '76 George M Colvill '51 Guillermo J Vicens '70 Herbert F Schwartz '57 David Oakes '90 Dennis E Cook '62 $2,500-$4,999 J William Weber '64 James M Shepherd '51 Bruce H Parker '69 Andrew D Copeland '01 Kenneth L Andersen '63 Malcolm E Wheeler '66 Valdemar A Skov '55 A William Peck '60 Elisabetta Cortesi '87 Allen G Burgess '57 Gerrit W Zwart '62 Dennis H Smith '64 Mary E Perrot '78 Richard R Coulter Jr '67 Gordon J Burrer '55 Robert E Smith '41 Michael C Petro '89 Edward C Crowley '57 Kenneth G Follansbee '67 $500-$999 Lauren M Sompayrac Jr '63 Rocco J Pigneri '05 Michael S Cuffe '87 R Michael Kruger '67 George C Allen Jr '70 Paul W Sullivan '71 CDR Heide Piper '84 Nathan Curland '67 Richard W Metzinger '63 Scott W Allison '62 Debra A Utko '80 Renata A Pomponi '90 Gary A De Bacher '65 Richard J Millman '62 John H Banks '48 Robert C Weber '50 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13 The February ’08 bulletin, #7, carried an article by Liz Fisher,’80 entitled 35 Years of Women’s Varsity Crew, and announcing the preparations for the event celebrating its anniversary. In that bulletin you may have read the following excerpt “In the spring of 1973 women’s crew was officially recognized and granted varsity status, but few may know that an earlier group of diehard women raced in the spring of 1966, their first appearance after organizing in the previous fall with Jesse Lipcon, ’65 as coach. The two coxed fours stroked by Irene Greif ’67 and Harriet Fell ’64 made for an exciting race, complete with a midcourse collision and each boat taking the lead away from the other several times. Harriet’s boat, rowing at a lower pace, moved ahead in the last half of the 3/4 mile race to win while Irene and company fought off the familiar hazard of ‘catching a crab’”. There follows two articles about and by these two strokes, Irene Greif and Harriet Fell, respectively.

KNITTING TOGETHER COMPUTERS AND PEOPLE

By Eileen McClusky Courtesy: Technology Review, Nov.-Dec. 2008

Irene Greif may have a high-tech job as director of collaborative user experience in IBM’s Watson Cambridge Research Center, but she still enjoys low-tech activities. Greif, who holds the company’s highest honor as an IBM fellow, brings her knitting to meetings. “My colleagues may e-mail or IM during meetings, but I knit,” says Greif, who makes handbags, hats, and sweaters. It doesn’t take her mind off her work, though, she adds: “I really listen to what is going on. This is evidenced by the knitting mistakes I make.” Greif’s IBM team turns out products such as Lotus Connections, business software that integrates social bookmarking, blogging, and user profiles into corporate communications. Products like Lotus Connections sprang from the field Grief pioneered in the mid-1980s: computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), which studies how people work in groups and develops technologies that support collaboration. For Greif, who received a 2008 Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology Leadership Award, the notion of a finished product works for yarn-and-needle creations, but not for human-computer interfaces. “Business infrastructures need to be more flexible,” she says, “with systems like blogs that can easily morph into new systems.” The first woman to earn a PhD in computer science at MIT, Greif served as a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, then returned to MIT as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science from 1977 to 1987. She headed a research group in the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science that developed coauthoring systems, shared calendars, and technology for real-time collaboration. Greif began working for Lotus in 1987 and formed Lotus Research, which created InterNotes Web Publisher; she also led the Lotus Product Design Group. She is a fellow of both the Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of Computing Machinery and was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2000. 14 WOMEN’S ROWING AT MIT IN THE 60S

By Harriet Fell ‘64

I came to MIT in 1961 as a freshman. There were posters inviting people interested in rowing to come to a meeting at the boathouse. I wanted to row. I think it was because my father taught me to row a rowboat when I was five. I didn’t know any men that rowed competitively, so that wasn’t an influence.

A few of us, coeds, went to the announced meeting. I’m pretty sure that Margaret (Scotty) McVicar, the founder of UROP was one of the group. We were laughed at and locked out of the boathouse. We continued to ask to row but were met with lectures on how absurd it was for women to row or try to run the marathon…

After two years, we were given permission to row in the tank and that spring we were allowed out once in an eight with 4 men and 4 women. I can’t remember the gender of the coxswain. It was presumed that we wanted to row so that we could socialize with (male) rowers.

The next fall, Elaine (Lancaster) Sonderegger transferred from Wellesley where she had been captain of an intramural rowing team. We finally got permission to really row. I remember putting up posters at McCormick Hall to get enough women interested.

Elaine was the first official captain; Dave Waltz, a graduate student, was our coach. We had to practice at 6 a.m. and walk straight through so “we wouldn’t distract the athletes.” The boathouse was for men, not for women. There was no locker room or bathroom for women, so we had to come ready to row.

We practiced in eights and fours. Our first race was part of some event that the local universities participated in. We put two fours out – I think I stroked the losing boat.

I usually rowed stroke but moved to 6, when a stronger stroke showed up. I really don’t look like I ought to be rowing stroke but it was my favorite position. At my tallest, I was 5’ 2.5”.

We had one meet against Wellesley. Their boats and oars were much smaller and lighter than ours. We had no chance to try them out before the race and we didn’t even know what the start signal sounded like. They won. We did get to stay and have dinner in a Wellesley dorm. The housemother was angry that we had arrived at the dorm in our rowing clothes instead of changing into our skirts, required attire in Wellesley dorms, back at the boathouse.

In addition to rowing fours and eights, I wanted to row in a single. I decided to ask permission one icy November, assuming that I would have to negotiate until spring. Instead, Jack Frailey said, “yes” right away. I was afraid I would lose this privilege if I waited until spring so I went straight to the boathouse and took out a single for the first time. The launch was not available

15 and I was told that if I capsized, I should abandon the boat and swim for shore or I wouldn’t survive. I didn’t capsize then or any other time. The last time I rowed was during the summer, just before I moved to France in 1970. I rowed a single from the boathouse to the Mount Auburn Hospital and back at as fast a clip as I could manage. I pulled smoothly into the dock and as I tried to get out of the boat, my legs went numb from the hips down. I had to be lifted out of the boat. It was scary but went away within the hour. It really didn’t put me off rowing; I just didn’t have much opportunity after that.

I became an ardent cyclist during that year in France. I came back to the US in the fall of 1971 for a faculty position at Northeastern University. I went to see the rowing coach during my first week there so see if I could row one of their singles. He thought it was a totally reasonable request but at the time Northeastern did not have its own boathouse and was renting space from B.U. There was no arrangement I built this frame in the MIT 1974 Aluminum bike IAP for individuals to go out. project. After spending 13 years in a cellar in France, it returned to the US to serve as evidence in a patent hearing. It Within a few years, then hung on our livingroom wall for many years until March. cycling was filling much (2005) when my husband equipped it for the road. of my time and I never tried rowing again- but that may still change.

16 Winter 2012 Squaring the blade A Newsletter for MIT Crew Alumni Director’s Message can be frustrating, IAP is as much a in the graphic below. Near-perfect part of MIT as the Brass Rat, and, weather let us row many miles and by Tony Kilbridge to look on the bright side, it allows have the most constructive train- As I write this in the first week of us to practice at a time when many ing trip of my time at MIT. Senior February, MIT’s annual Indepen- college crews are still on winter Catherine Crowley and junior Ste- dent Activity Period is ending. IAP break. Part of our mission at MIT phen Freiberg offer their reflections is a peculiar part of the MIT crew crew is to embrace the Institute on the trip in this issue. calendar. It starts in early Janu- for what it is, and turn its unique ary during our winter trip to Cocoa features to our advantage. No one Our spring racing schedules have Beach, when our athletes are at better exemplifies this spirit than firmed up, and should provide their best – relaxed, well rested and women’s openweight head coach plenty of excitement for MIT crew happy. After Florida, some athletes Holly Metcalf. For this issue, fans. In addition to our usual go home and others scatter to MIT Holly contributed an extraordinary EARC/EAWRC and Patriot League activities in various parts of the piece about her team’s journey over races, both the lightweight squads globe. Most return to Cambridge, the past four years. will compete at the San Diego where they undertake classes, proj- Crew Classic, and our heavyweight ects, and competitions, which often One big positive from this year’s men will have out-of-league races culminate with days of frantic ac- IAP was our Florida training trip. against Trinity, Bates, UMass and tivity and sleeplessness. The crew We took more athletes than ever to Boston College. Our spring racing practices throughout IAP, but we Cocoa Beach. This is a function schedules are listed in this issue lack the protection of the 5:00–7:00 of our growing rosters; there are and at our varsity website (www. p.m. athletics window, and some more students rowing for MIT than mitathletics.com). I hope you can athletes miss practice to attend eve- at any time in the past six years. find the time to attend a race and ning classes. While the distractions Our squad sizes are broken down cheer for MIT crew. Go Tech! Squad Size by Team and Class Year 40! 35! Gr.! Director’s Message 1 30! Sr.! 25! New Coach 2 20! Jr.! 15! Team Culture 3 So.! 10! Florida Reflections 6 5! Fr.! 0! Season Previews 8 Hvy M! Lwt M! Open W! Lwt W!

17 New Addition After giving up competitive row- 2009-2011 he filled a number of Welcome Jeff ing, Jeff went on to work with the coaching roles at Riverside, work- By Will Oliver Riverside Boat Club High Perfor- ing with both scullers and sweep Joining the lightweight men’s mance Group, where he coached athletes. coaching staff this year is Jeff For- a number of successful boats, as rester. Appointed as the Richard J. well as several members of the US We were fortunate enough to Resch ‘61 Freshman Lightweight Lightweight National Team. From hire Jeff this summer, when, af- Coach, Jeff comes to MIT with ter working for a number of a wealth of rowing and coach- years at a biomedical research ing experience. In college, he company and coaching on the won an IRA silver medal with side, he decided that he wanted Rutgers in 1999 and in the to become a career coach. years that followed earned a With years of elite rowing variety of hardware at numer- and coaching experience, Jeff ous national and international brings valuable insights to the events, including Canadian program and is well respected Henley, US Elite Nationals, the around the boathouse by Henley Royal Regatta, and the coaches and rowers alike. The Head of the Charles. In 2007 lightweight men have already he represented the USA at the benefitted greatly from his World Rowing Championships presence and look forward to in Germany, finishing fifth in the good that he will do in the the lightweight eight event. future.

Now in its second year of operation, the MIT Youth Rowing Camp offers a choice of two one-week day camps for high-school-age rowers, emphasizing sculling skills.

Teaching methods will include on-the-water coaching, video review, and tank demonstrations, with a high coach-to-athlete ratio to ensure that all campers receive lots of individual attention.

Session One: June 18 - June 22 Session Two: June 25 - June 29

Anyone interested in the program should visit http://www.mitathletics.com/sports/m-crew/CrewCamp2012 for more information.

Youth Rowing Camp

18 Team Culture an ominous teacher if one chooses At the thousand meter mark there High Challenge, it. She never pushed Catherine to were several lengths of open water High Support pick up rowing; she has watched between the two crews. I watched with pride as Catherine has come to the flag go down at the finish line By Holly Metcalf recognize the “teacher,” enhancing indicating we had finished the race. Sunday, April 3, 2011, I was sitting her ability to learn on and off the Twenty seconds later the flag rose in a launch along with one of my water. again for Boston College’s finish. rower’s mother, waiting for the This was a crushing victory. This eights to get locked onto the stake The boats finished backing into the was a pivotal moment for Cathe- boats. The athlete was junior Cath- stake boats. The starter raised his rine, her mother, the team, and me: erine Crowley, the captain of our flag: “ATTENTION: ROW!” evidence that change was present. MIT openweight women’s team, stroke of the varsity eight. The boats took off. Catherine’s When Tony Kilbridge hired me five eyes focused straight ahead at noth- years ago, he asked me if I could That Sunday was my team’s first ing in particular, but maintained an commit to his vision of re-building race of the spring season. The exact level that the rest of her body MIT crew as an entire program — race was against Boston College, steadied itself around. The five not just the openweight women’s a team that we had never beaten, other juniors, one sophomore, one varsity squad. It is obvious what although one that Catherine’s boat walk-on freshman and one walk-on my answer was. The two key had moved closer to since her novice senior looked unbreakable; elements of Tony’s vision that freshman year — a twenty second every stroke was powerful, ef- continue to bring speed to all of margin narrowing to three seconds ficient, and intense. Five hundred our teams are quite simple on the in her sophomore year. Catherine’s meters into the two thousand meter surface: 1) fitness and technique; 2) mother rowed in college and after, race, MIT was in the lead by over a a team culture of “high challenge, and knows the tremendous learn- boat length. ing available from a rowing shell; Continued on p.4

Third-year captain and varsity stroke Catherine Crowley, ‘12 3

19 Team Culture & over 2000 meters...” The students team culture are synergistic. They Challenge Support had “stats” to back up their attitude. are as inseparable as the rowers Continued from p.3 Tony challenged me for the long themselves in an eight when their high support.” There is no order of haul: engage these women through competition cannot break them in importance: both have to be pres- your vision; transform; build. Get the third five hundred of the closest ent in significant ways. “Support” the beginning results that would race imaginable. And in a program is defined by each coach, his or her start the changes, not only in race broken in spirit, these take time to personality, and by the rowers, mo- results, but in themselves. re-build. tivated by their particular mind-set. The culture on my squad five years The students and coach have to My mentor reminds me to wit- ago, for example, was dominated believe in the long haul; otherwise ness every iota of growth in my by the subtext, “Why bother doing the slow, incremental improve- student-athletes and our program more work — we’re going to lose ments will go unnoticed — essen- overall. He is Mike Hughes, the anyway,” which also translated into tially disrespected despite being the varsity women’s coach at Navy. “So what if our technique is better essence of reaching true competi- When I first arrived at MIT and — we’re still going to get crushed tiveness. The fitness/technique and raced Mike’s team in Washington, DC, losing by 12 seconds, he took me aside: “Holly, your team is already a totally different team. I can see the change in intensity, and their technique is 100% improved. Listen, it took me at least ten years to get my team out of the ditches. I’m not looking forward to racing you over these next few years!” Last year at the women’s Sprints in the third level finals, we beat Navy by 5 seconds, and were less than 3 seconds behind the winner, Boston University. It didn’t take ten years to beat Navy; it took four. That synergy of training and “high challenge, high support” made it possible for two novice walk-ons to reach a very high level of competitiveness in a short period of time. But we have a long way to go.

Now the crucial comparisons have to be made for the openweight women’s squad: MIT vs. Radcliffe, for example. Where are we rela- tive to top-ten national finishers, those who have the benefits of recruiting methods, who only use walk-ons to fill out their numbers? Continued on p.5 4

20 Team Culture & wins for the sake of winning — we Over one hundred years ago, the Challenge Support could measure our improvement German philosopher Nietzsche Continued from p.4 by only racing Division I schools said, “When one rows it is not row- The talent of recruits at many within our reach, and overlook that ing which moves the ship: rowing of these institutions is very high which five years ago looked unat- is only a magical ceremony.” This coming out of strong high school tainable, namely going from 41 has become true for many of our programs — their freshman year seconds behind Radcliffe to within student-athletes. Catherine is one fitness, strength, and technique are 18 seconds. example of so many. Her love of at levels that surpass what many of learning has been the essence of my colleagues and I could achieve We have instilled a belief in pos- her leadership of the openweight by their junior and senior years ten sibility, of the seamlessness of women’s crew these past three years ago. academics and rowing, that the years, and her vision for four years. passion engendered through both Here are the margins between the these worlds need not separate I started my article with the story Radcliffe and MIT varsity eights at when stepping in or out of Pierce of the Boston College race as a the Beanpot Regatta over the past Boathouse. This is happening in metaphor for Catherine and all of four years: ALL of our squads. The environ- her teammates as the possibility 2008 Beanpot—41 seconds ment in the boathouse is full once for learning and winning. She is 2009 Beanpot—34 seconds again of MIT competence and pas- not the most important part of the 2010 Beanpot—27 seconds sion. There is the opportunity to picture; she is a teacher who helped 2011 Beanpot—18 seconds grow. The walk-ons see the possi- create synergy in her rowing pro- bilities and have the support to win gram, a way of being engaged that The improvement is clear, at least against better recruited teams. We makes her a top rower, an example seven seconds per year — a 23 sec- are moving the boats with fitness, of the passion already unleashed or ond gain overall. But 18 seconds strong team culture, and some MIT just sitting below the surface that over 2000 meters is still frustrating magic. keeps all of us coming back to the for all involved. So is focusing on magical ceremony of rowing.

21 florida Training be taking a bus three hours to get Off the water we were blessed to Lightweight Men to Cocoa Beach. But this was only endure no serious injuries to boats By Stephen Freiberg ‘13 the beginning to our trip! or to rowers. Last year’s stingray The 2012 trip to Florida was, for encounter was not repeated, as we the lightweight men, the premier By the first day of practice all were all sure to shuffle properly in highlight of the season to date. rowers and coxswains were pres- accordance with Tony Kilbridge’s This year the trip fell after the New ent and no time was wasted in instruction. The weather was Year, from the second to the elev- getting out on the water. After sunny and 70 every day; at times enth of January. For the first time several weeks of winter training we even had the audacity to com- in recent memory the squads cel- (and several weeks off for finals) plain about the heat. But by far ebrated New Year’s Eve properly at we were a bit rusty, but a day of the most important off-water event home rather than in Cocoa Beach square blade rowing by sixes made was the skit night, and I’m proud

with several bottles of sparkling everyone eager for more time on to report that, although there was cider and sparklers. the water. Luckily we had many great competition this year, we feel days still ahead. Highlights from the lightweight men once again As the last rowers filtered into Or- the rowing included competitive performed the best skit. lando and ferried over to unload the racing between the freshman and trailers, it became apparent that one varsity eights, impressive gains in All in all, I believe the 2012 trip Nathan Landman, a new walk-on technique and strength from the to Florida was a great success for lightweight, had confused Or- walk-on crews, and a new annual the lightweight men, and I look lando with Ft. Lauderdale (quite an tradition: a 23-mile all-day row forward to the spring racing season understandable mistake given the around the southeastern portion of as we move off of the ergs and into similarity of the names) and would Merritt Island. the boats! 6

22 Florida Training few trips to the beach to enjoy the hands between pieces, the meals, Openweight Women sun between practice. A group of the laughter, the unbelievable By Catherine Crowley ‘12 adventurers did, after about a year amount of sweat that twenty-plus This year’s Florida training trip of anticipation, make it to Harry openweight women rowers can was quite a success for the MIT Potter World in Orlando, and it produce, our uninterrupted time to- women’s openweight crew. We did not disappoint. The napping, gether — shape us into the team we fielded an impressive three full at least in my room, was pretty will race as in the spring. We find eights at every practice for the first consistent and always enjoyable. our rhythm together on the long week until the start of IAP classes, And then there was our eating steady state rows and figure out the which reduced our numbers in pattern... working out as much as technical changes we need to keep Cocoa Beach to a respectable eight we were, we had ample reason to in the back of our minds as we and four. This new depth within make multiple trips to the frozen head back to the ergs and tank at our team provided our practices yogurt store around the corner and our boathouse. We come together with constant and competitive rac- gorge ourselves at dinner every as one team, no longer separated by ing throughout novice or varsi- the trip — all ty. We prove to three boats each other our tried with commitment to every stroke, our shared goal including those of making MIT capped at a crew faster; with rate eighteen, every stroke, to pull ahead each one of us of the others. tries to get a On the last day just a little more before IAP, we than we thought finished off our we could. time all together with a morning In Florida, of class races we are able to (always a team escape from the favorite). The complications upperclassman of our normal boat managed lives and spend to stay ahead of the battling sopho- night, prepared for the entire team ten days completely focused on more and freshman boats but it was by a rotating group of teammates. our team and our rowing. This is closer racing than the MIT open- We dined on freshly made chicken the time when we get in touch with weights have generated in a long noodle soup, stuffed ourselves full what we want to do with our future time. of chicken parmesan, and enjoyed racing and just how far we are all a tasty night of make-your-own willing to go to get there. This However, this trip was not just burritos, to name only a few of our year, in Cocoa Beach, we found the work all the time. We had some dinner concoctions. MIT openweight women’s crew fun and a lot of napping and even that will be racing this spring; and more eating. The fun was mostly All of these bits of Florida — the we jump-started the long winter restricted to trashy TV, in particular long runs back from the launching journey where we take full owner- What Not To Wear and The Real site after a good practice, the medi- ship of that squad. Housewives of Beverly Hills, and a cal tape passed among blistered 7

23 Season Preview year’s varsity are coxswain Rishi nine walk-ons, has the potential to Heavyweight Men Dixit (Sloan School, ’12), Andrew be a very competitive EARC crew. By Tony Kilbridge Yang (’13) and Trevor Zinser (’13), MIT’s heavyweight men enter the all of whom were in last year’s Dad In addition to our usual EARC 2012 season with their youngest Vail bronze-medal-winning varsity schedule, which this year takes team in recent memory. Of the 30 four. The rest of the varsity squad us on the road to New York City

men on the roster, one is a grad rowed on coach Thews-Wassell’s and Madison, Wisconsin, we have student, one is a senior (a novice freshman crew in 2011. added out-of-league races against walk-on), two are juniors, six are Bates, Trinity, UMass, and Boston sophomores, and the rest are fresh- This year’s freshman group, com- College. men. The only returners from last prising ten recruited athletes and

Alumni Cup vs. Columbia & Holy Cross New York, NY March 31 vs. Bates, Boston College, & Trinity Home April 7 Compton Cup vs. Harvard & Princeton Home April 14 vs. University of Massachusetts Home April 21 Cochrane Cup vs. Wisconsin & Dartmouth Madison, WI April 28 EARC Sprints Worcester, MA May 13 IRA National Championship (by invitation) Cherry Hill, NJ May 31 - June 2

24 Season Preview race of 2012. We will field a top the Geiger Cup in quick succession Lightweight Men eight comprised of the team’s best before traveling to Philadelphia to By Will Oliver varsity and frosh in the Men’s Col- race Penn and Delaware two weeks The lightweight men have been legiate Varsity American Specialty before Sprints. Given the progress working hard throughout the Health Cup and race a plethora of that we have made on the ergom- winter season in preparation for heavyweight crews from around eter this winter, everyone is excited the spring. Commitment to the the country. The event promises to improve on last year’s perfor- team’s goal of competitiveness to be a great start to the season and mances. The freshman class is has been high this season, with the has been an excellent source of particularly excited following their squad returning from the winter holiday in much better shape than in 2011. Boat-for-boat erg scores have been faster this year than last, meaning that the team has been able to spend more time focusing on improving power and anaero- bic function, rather than regaining lost aerobic fitness. The guys have been enjoying their weight lifting sessions, a welcome change from erging in the boat bays, and overall strength is improving greatly. Additionally, this year’s warmer weather has offered the opportunity to do significantly more cross motivation for the team. win among lightweight crews at the training, getting the athletes outside Foot of the Charles this fall, and with some regularity, though they Following the Crew Classic, the they hope to add additional notches are still anxious to return to the team will return to Boston and to their belts this spring. But for water. begin its traditional race schedule, everyone at the MIT boathouse, which will be held almost entirely winter is not over yet, and the team Looming on the horizon is the at home this season. MIT will host still has many hours of work to put San Diego Crew Classic, our first the Joy Cup, the Biglin Bowl, and in before it will be ready to race.

San Diego Crew Classic San DIego, CA March 31 - April 1 Joy Cup vs. Yale Home April 7 Biglin Bowl vs. Dartmouth & Harvard Home April 14 Geiger Cup vs. Columbia, Cornell Home April 21 vs. Pennsylvania & Delaware Philadelphia, PA April 28 EARC Sprints Worcester, MA May 13 IRA National Championship (by invitation) Cherry Hill, NJ May 31 - June 2

25 Season Preview frontrunners. This time around we seats in the varsity eight since their Openweight Women anticipate being in contention for freshman year (which included the By Aaron Benson all three events: the varsity eight, 2009 trip to Henley). Their at- Selection procedures for the NCAA second varsity eight, and third titude, fitness, skill, and common championship are changing next varsity four. rhythm have formed the backbone year, and the openweight women’s of the team for four years running. 2012 racing schedule reflects With over three eights’ worth of The entire Class of 2012 is doing some of this shift already. The Ivy League has withdrawn from the Eastern Sprints to hold its own conference race, and as a result the EAWRC field will introduce some new teams to replace them (tenta- tively including Bucknell, Clem- son, Holy Cross, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Virginia). Also, due to date changes for other conference championships, the Bean- pot will now mark the beginning of our regular season rather than the end of it; in effect, it has switched places with the Boston College cup race in our schedule.

Our driving focus this season is success at the Patriot League Championship, as that will ulti- athletes on the team for the first a fantastic job leading our sizeable mately be our path to the national time since being designated Divi- contingent of athletic sophomores championship in the future. Last sion I, the team is poised to have and freshmen, and overall team erg year we had our poorest perfor- its best season in recent memory. results are better than ever. It will mance of the season at that event, We finally have a large senior class, be a thrill to see how this group but were still competitive with the four members of which have held performs on the water this spring!

Beanpot vs. BC, BU, Northeastern, & Radcliffe Home March 24 George Washington Invitational Washington, DC April 7-8 vs. Buffalo & Massachusetts Home April 21 Patriot League Championship Cherry Hill, NJ April 29 Cup Race vs. Boston College Home May 5 EAWRC Sprints Cherry Hill, NJ May 13 NCAA National Championship (by invitation) Sacramento, CA May 25-27

26 Season Preview After a weekend off, on April River. The next day, MIT and Rad- Lightweight Women 14th and 15th Tech will attend the cliffe contest the Muri Cup for the By Claire Martin-Doyle Knecht Cup Regatta, another two- third consecutive year. MIT’s lightweight women will day event with ample competition, open the 2012 spring season on which has historically featured With a big push at the end of the March 31st at the San Diego Crew strong racing from Wisconsin, regular season, Tech will send a Classic, a trip that will mark the Bucknell, Buffalo, and the Uni- lightweight eight and four to the team’s first ever appearance at versity of Massachusetts. In 2011, Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia,

the prestigious west coast regatta. Tech advanced to the grand final of then finish the weekend racing on Tech will have the chance to line both the lightweight four and eight, Sunday, May 13th at the EAWRC up against perennial lightweight placing 3rd and 6th, respectively. Sprints in Cherry Hill, NJ, with the contenders Stanford and Tulsa, entire squad on the water. If se- international power British Colum- On April 21st, Tech hosts Wiscon- lected, Tech will send a lightweight bia, and new challenger UC Berke- sin, Stanford, and Buffalo, along eight and four to the IRA in Cherry ley. with Radcliffe on the Charles Hill, NJ, on May 31-June 2.

San Diego Crew Classic San DIego, CA March 31 - April 1 Knecht Cup Cherry Hill, NJ April 14-15 vs. Buffalo, Radcliffe, Stanford, & Wisconsin Home April 21 Muri Cup vs. Radcliffe Home April 22 Dad Vail Regatta Philadelphia, PA May 11-12 EAWRC Sprints Cherry Hill, NJ May 13 IRA National Championship (by invitation) Cherry Hill, NJ May 31 - June 2

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