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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unless the unexpected happens, Debi Thomas will become the first black athlete to win a medal in the Winter Games. Records are not immaculately kept on the point, but apparently it was 1980 before U.S. Bobsledders Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley, along with their Canadian counterpart Bob Wilson, broke the color line. Several more black athletes will compete in Calgary, including Canadian Hockey Player Claude Vilgrain. If part of the problem is lack of black involvement in winter sports, that is changing too. E. Rory Flack, 18, is the most prominent of a growing number of black athletes following Thomas...
...long as she can remember, Gwen Linde wanted to be a pilot. At Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., Linde, 29, is commander of a C-141 transport plane, a mammoth, 75-ton, four-engine workhorse that carries everything from weapons, paratroopers and medical supplies to Bob Hope and his entourage. Leading a crew of six, Linde routinely carries out five-day missions to bases in Hawaii, Guam and the Azores. Her dream, however, is to fly the fighter jets that she once trained others to operate. But since those elite birds are designated for combat, women have been...
Guard Dave Orlandini (15.8 points a game) leads the barrage, connecting on 44-of-75 three-pointers (58 percent). If Orlandini is off, and he rarely is, there's forward Bob Scrabis (15.6 p.p.g), who has hit 40-of-85 three-pointers, and guard Tim Neff (9.1 p.p.g), who has hit half of his three's, 37-of-74, to pick up the slack...
Former women's soccer and men's lacrosse Coach Bob Scalise and women's swimming Coach Maura Costin Scalise are the proud parents of a bouncing boy, Michael Joseph Scalise. Michael was born February 10, at 1:11 a.m. in Brigham and Women's Hospital and weighed in at seven Ibs. and 15 ounces. Both mom and son retuned home last night...Harvard basketball Coach Peter Roby and Sandra Gullickson Roby are proud parents of Kayla Alexandra, a seven lb., 4 1/2-ounce baby, born February...
...Cleary's gold-medal winning line were his brother Bob '58, and Bob McVey, '58. Together that line produced four of the six third-period goals that keyed the team's comeback victory over the Czechs in the championship game. Defenseman Bob Owen, '58 also played a key role for the squad...