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...Swift Creek Township, near Raleigh, N.C., doctors urged Oscar Maynard, 67, to go to a nursing home after he suffered a stroke several months ago. Maynard refused, saying: "I'll be on my own, and I'll go where I want to go." Where Maynard wanted to go was to the simple brick home that he shares with his wife Essie, 63, on 25 acres of land. Says Maynard: "I'd rather be here than anyplace else in the world...
Newell boathouse may well produce the most successful post-grad athletes as stroke Al Shealy will undoubtedly return to his oar on the National boat and Dick Cashin will follow suit. Both oarsmen will be in England next year--Shealy at Oxford, and Cashin at Cambridge--and the possibility of their returning in time for the Olympics is great. Greg Stone hopes to go the Olympic route sculling, and Tiff Wood will probably be aiming for the eight. And that's the wrap-up from the where-will-they-be-next-year department...
...story about a Kirkland celebration that took place some years back, when Arthur Smithies was House master. Smithies was pouring drinks for the members of the victorious House crew team, starting with the bow man and working towards the stern of the shell, and as he reached the stroke, someone brought word that he had just become a grandfather...
...existed, that the war existed only in headlines and television broadcasts and not in its victims' bodies. Such an attitude denies the reality not only of the Vietnam war, but of all human activities--for if 20 years of carnage and destruction can be consigned to oblivion with one stroke of a commentator's pen, then no history deserves to be remembered and no suffering can expect commemoration...
...Stroke Nancy Hermann and Karen Oberhauser kept the stroke down to a 32, while Yale blew themselves out by rowing a 36 for the duration of the race. The Elis were unable to maintain their power for two miles at that high cadence, and faded out of serious contention after only a mile...