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Brown succeeds defensive back Peter Coppinger of Billerica, Mass...
...family--including six brothers and sisters--reside in Billerica, Ma., where Coppinger attended Billerica High School, although he attended Deerfield Academy for a year after graduation. His coaches at Deerfield, Jim Smith and Bob McDermott '75, a former Harvard tight end, urged him to go to Harvard and put him in contact with the Harvard coaching staff...
Pushing both seniors may be freshman Gary Schermahoran (Billerica), selected as a high school all-American for his play last year. But Ford cautions that any freshman may have difficulty breaking into the 18-man varsity squad, in spite of a moderately successful recruiting year that included the youngest of three Keller-Sarmientos, Pablo...
...other graduating seniors anticipate summers abroad, five-figure salaries, and advanced degrees, John Timothy Leary doesn't expect to go very far. Depending upon the mercy of the Massachusetts judicial system, he may have no choice. John faces up to two months in the Billerica state correctional facility for distributing peace leaflets at Cambridge's Draper Laboratory (a leading center for research and development of nuclear missile accuracy systems). It's doubtful, however, that time in prison will "correct" John's activism. Many previous brushes with authority have proven him to be a shameless agitator...
Maintaining the spiritual element in his life "is a real effort," John explains. "It's much easier for me to walk into Draper knowing I might face 30 days in Billerica than it is to sit quietly in a chapel and pray and meditate for 20 minutes." But he tries to guard himself against what he calls "an idolatrous activism" by drawing upon the example of Dorothy Day, Dom Helder Camarra, and other Catholics in the activist tradition...