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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When Crimson football coach John Yovicsin first came to Harvard he commented, "The work I did in the past is done by the managers here...
...that is only half the story. In addition to the team, the individual managers benefit from their own work. They receive major and minor Varsity letters, according to their sports, in their junior and senior years. They also receive complimentary tickets to the games. But, most important of all, the managers receive valuable training in executive-type duties in handling details, people, and organization in general. In their freshman year, too, they learn the laws of competition first hand...
Probably the most famous former manager is C. Douglas Dillon '31, presently Under Secretary of State and previously U.S. Ambassador to France. His long and distinguished record includes work in finance and banking in addition to politics...
Oliver P. Bolton '39, President of Newspaper Publishing Companies, Willoughby, Ohio, wrote, "It is of interest to me because I have always felt that, though football managing led me to spend too little time on class work, it nonetheless was perhaps the most rewarding experience I had in college. I have always felt that it gave me what I most needed at the point in my development, and that without it I would have been pretty lost in the great maelstrom that is Harvard." His son Charles is presently a freshman football manager...
Former crew manager Francis T. Baldwin '24, presently with Batten, Barton, Durstine, & Osborn, wrote "Managerial training has been invaluable to me in my work of handling advertising accounts and all the diverse extra activities involved. . . Being a varsity manager was one of the most valuable experiences I had in college. It has contributed a great deal to many of my activities since. . . In the four years with the Crew, I learned: first, to get along with all kinds of guys; second, to plan in a reasonably orderly fashion; and third, to react with some sense, I trust, as emergencies upset...