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...extremely difficult decision to make." Gladstone said yesterday in a telephone interview from Berkeley. "The five years I spent at Harvard and the personal relations that I had there were a beautiful, beautiful thing. The people I coached and coached with were great. They understood my weaknesses and my strengths, and I'd be wrong not to say that it was a real comfort to be in a community where rowing is as important as it is at Harvard...
...when they contacted me about the job I just couldn't turn down the opportunity," Gladstone said. The administration here (at Berkeley) is intent on bringing rowing back to the level of success that Berkeley enjoyed as recently as 1964 when their heavyweights won the Intercollegiate Rowing Championships. It's a challenge to help a place that had a strong rowing tradition re-ignite...
Gladstone said that Berkeley first contacted him in January and that he had been mulling it over" ever since then However it was not until April that he began seriously the Berkeley job The final decision to go West came last summer...
...Berkeley Gladstone inherits a program rich in tradition. Berkeley won Olympic gold in the 1948 Games and more recently took IRA titles in 1960, 1961 and 1964--but poor in talent and interest Last year Berkeley had only one and a half boats in the heavyweight division and nothing at all for light-sights...
...However Berkeley does have a lot of manpower to offer. The university has over 10,000 male students a good facilities Despite the handicaps, Gladstone has high hopes for what he can for with the Berkeley program...