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Southern Illinois coach Ray Essick will be the new chief mentor of Harvard's varsity swimming team...
...Southern Illinois he had run out of challenges. It had become time to move on, and when Don Gambril suddenly stepped down at Harvard to take the head coaching position at Alabama, Essick jumped at the chance to realize his old Ivy League dream...
...Essick knows that he has a tough act to follow, but he is impressed with the job Gambril did in his two-year stint in Cambridge, and is anxious to get going. "I want to build on the program that Gambril started here," he said yesterday. "Don did a great job revitalizing the program at Harvard, and that makes the job even more desirable...
...While Essick's interest in Harvard starting rolling as soon as it became known that Gambril had headed South, it wasn't until he came to Cambridge to meet with the screening committee a couple weeks back that he really began to get excited about the Harvard...
...Essick is a 1955 graduate of the University of Illinois, and got his Master's degree there is 1958. While an undergraduate, Essick lettered in swimming and track. Before coming to SIU in 1966, Essick coached for a number of years at the high school level...