Project Editor: Joshua Vapenik, History 470: Digital History, Spring 2008

Members

Without people to row, there would obviously be no team. Recruiting them was therefore an important goal. In order to accomplish this, the team placed an eight man shell in front of the City Campus union and allowed it to do the advertising for them. Those who answered the call to join faced six grueling practices a week, the financial burden of paying for their participation, and the cost of buying their own oar, and the added time commitment of practices, races, and fundraisers. About 52 people answered the call however, and began practicing in February 1971 (Sun, 1971).

Because no one on the team had any experience whatsoever with rowing, someone who did know how needed to be found in order to teach the rest of the members the sport. The answer to this problem lay in the person of Bill Brush, a pre-med student from Andover, Massachusetts, who had rowed at prep school (Allen, 1971). With Brush's help, the team would be ready to compete soon after forming.