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Crew at Georgetown: A Selection of Materials from the University Archives
Aquatic sports for some reason (probably the expense) have never succeeded in attaining any great degree of popularity among the students, and this notwithstanding the splendid opportunities the College enjoys in this respect . . .
At last, this long projected association is formed, and with every prospect of an active career, if one may judge from the spirit manifested by all concerned. Let it be recorded upon the tablets of time that March 15th, 1876, gave birth at Georgetown to this commendable organization . . .
An early example of fund raising for crew. Among the performers, John Agar, who declaimed The Maniac of the Abbey by Robert Southey and The Widow Gray, and Clement Manley, who delivered The Vagabonds by Trowbridge. Both Agar and Manley were members of the committee which selected Blue and Gray as the Boat Club Colors.
One of the first actions of the Georgetown College Boat Club was to appoint a Committee on Colors. Georgetown did not have colors in 1876 and it was felt that they were needed so supporters on shore could identify the team during races. The College Journal article, the only account of the Committee's work that has survived, explains how the Committee, looking for colors to express "the feeling of unity that exists between the Northern and Southern boys of the College," recommended the adoption of Blue and Gray. A subsequent College Journal describes how the young ladies from the neighboring Visitation Academy immediately sewed a half blue, half gray banner, bearing the inscription Ocior Euro ("Swifter than the Wind" in Latin), and presented it to the College. The banner, now lost, was prominently displayed at commencements and other school events and its colors quickly became part of our tradition.
The first six crew members were: Eugene McCarthy; William Francis Dammann, Jr.; James P. Dolan; Thomas F. Mallan; Martin J. Condon [later, mayor of his hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee]; and James Lynch. Mr. Randall, a member of the Potomac Boat Club, volunteered his services as Georgetown's first coach.
Above the smooth and limpid wave,
Come, speed our boat along,
And as she dashes to the goal
We'll time her with a song. . .
John Agar (A.B. 1876, M.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1889, and LL.D. 1910) became editor of the Georgetown College Journal in 1875. Because he both held this position and played a leading role in the organization of the Boat Club, the details of the Club's founding and formative years are well documented in the pages of the Journal.
Agar's contributions to Georgetown continued long after he ceased to be a student. Active in the Alumni Association, he urged, at the turn of the 20th century, the inclusion of lay alumni on the University's Board of Directors – an idea finally implemented in 1967. He also conceived the idea for a Board of Regents, drafted its bylaws and, in 1914, became an inaugural member of that body.
Sports on campus at this time had to be self-supporting. When the boat club approached President Patrick Healy in the spring of 1877 for a loan of $100 to buy a boat, he turned them down.
The boat house alone cost $1100. Designed by J. L. Smithmeyer, whose firm designed Healy Hall, it stood on the Potomac just west of the College. In February 1881, a flood washed away the Boat Club's shells and virtually destroyed the boat house, significantly stalling the momentum of the Club.
Crew continued sporadically through the 1890s but "no systematic effort has been made to organize a regular crew and boat club." In 1890, as this article reports, the Potomac Club offered the University a "four-oared gig for practice and a boat for a race."
Claude E. Zappone (1858-1919) attended Georgetown in the 1870s. Prominently identified with the promotion of amateur rowing in the U.S., he was a member of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen for 33 years, serving one term as that body's president and acting as its treasurer from 1910 until his death. President of the Potomac Boat Club, he was coach of the Georgetown crew in 1900 and 1901, a time of resurgence for rowing on campus. His obituary in The Washington Post on March 24, 1919, termed him the father of rowing at Georgetown.
Among those named, J.[ames] P. B. Duffy, the first member of crew inducted into the Georgetown Athletic Hall of Fame.
On June 10, 1961, James Duffy became the first member of crew to be added to the Georgetown Athletic Hall of Fame. He was recognized for his work as a member of the 1900 and 1901 varsity crew, rowing No. 5 starboard in 1900 and No. 7 starboard in 1901. The induction took place at the 60th reunion of his Georgetown class.
Duffy was elected from New York as a Democrat to Congress in 1935 and in 1937 was appointed as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York in the 7th Judicial District. In 1951, Georgetown awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws.
Yesterday was the greatest day yet in Georgetown University's aquatic history. It marked the first victory since the "blue and gray" went into rowing, and the achievement is all the more notable because her crew won a two mile race from so formidable a rival as the Naval Academy's big "eight."
Although the Boat Club had been formed in 1876, it was not until 1900 that Georgetown entered intercollegiate races.
Poughkeepsie was the venue of this, the nation's prime intercollegiate regatta. Teams from Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin entered the June 30, 1900 competition. The Washington Post noted in its coverage of the event that: Considering that Mr. Zappone had only twenty candidates from which to select his eight, he has certainly assembled a very likely looking crew. The men are all fine specimens of physical development, having an average age of twenty years, an average height of six feet and five-eights of an inch, and average weight of 165 3/4 pounds.
Official 1900 finish times for the four-mile course:
Pennsylvania: 19.44 3-5
Wisconsin: 19:46 2-5
Cornell: 20.04 1-5
Columbia: 20.08 1-5
Georgetown: 20.19 1-5
The boathouse, located at the foot of 32nd Street on government property, was purchased from the Columbia Athletic Club in the spring of 1901. According to the College Journal, it consisted of three rooms – the boat room, ball room and locker room. The boat room had ample space for the six eight-oared, five four-oared, one centipede, four out-riggers, two four-oared, and two gunwale boats, together with a fifty-foot ten oared barge. Georgetown used this boathouse until July 1904 when it was razed.
The crew returned to Poughkeepsie and the Annual Regatta of the Intercollegiate Association in July 1901 but with very different results from the previous year. Georgetown did not win the four-mile race but, despite inexperience and very limited preparation, still managed to finish fourth and, with a time of 19 minutes and 21 seconds, better the existing intercollegiate record for the distance. The following expression of admiration appeared in the Georgetown College Journal, July 1901:
No eight in the regatta deserves higher praise than the Georgetown Crew. They went into the race with but one previous contest as experience; half of them had never handled a sweep in a race before, yet Georgetown surprised everyone by holding on to the leaders in grand style. Such a combination of pluck and skill was entirely unlooked for; it was something even for seasoned oarsmen to have finished fourth in such a race and to have broken an intercollegiate record, but to have done all this with such little preparation and experience is, indeed, a thing to be remembered in the history of athletics at Georgetown.
Five thousand people gathered along the waterfront to watch this event. Georgetown was represented by an eight and a four in the junior events.
Georgetown made the Poughkeepsie regatta an annual event. In 1903 they finished second, their best finish there.
Born in Ireland, Patrick Dempsey was, at one time, rated as one of the nation's leading scullers. He became Georgetown's crew coach in 1902. He left in 1906 but returned in fall of 1909.
He established, and for many years operated, Dempsey's boathouse at 3600 K Street. That structure was leveled by fire in 1961.
The Georgetown College Preparatory School was housed on campus until 1919, when it moved to its Garrett Park, Montgomery County campus. Legal ties to Georgetown University were severed in 1927.
Included in this group is, fourth from left, is Denis Dowd of Sea Cliff, Long Island, who graduated from the College in 1908. He was the first American to travel to Europe to enlist after the outbreak of World War I, sailing for France six days after the War began. He was killed when the plane he was flying crashed near Paris on August 11, 1916.
This was a souvenir of the crew's trip to 1905 Annual Regatta of the Intercollegiate Association.
This prom was attended by more than 300 people; music was provided by a section of the Marine Band.
The crew, at this time, was facing huge financial issues. It did not have enough money to buy land for a boathouse and lack of funding began to impact its competition schedule. In fact, the crew did not compete in Poughkeepsie in 1908 or 1909, mainly because of a lack of funding. Correspondingly, interest in crew at Georgetown began to ebb.
"The decision of the executive committee [of the University's Athletic Association] several weeks ago to abolish crew for the present scholastic year came as a surprise to many of the students and the alumni . . . "
The decision was made at a meeting on January 28, 1911 because crew was seen as a heavy drain on the University's athletic funds. However, it was not intended to be permanent and the expectation was that the sport would resume the following year. However, it was five decades before the sport was again officially recognized at Georgetown.
Georgetown students continued to row after the 1911 decision, without official University recognition and simply for fun. Like the first crew team in the 1876, they borrowed shells from the Potomac Boat Club.
Unsuccessful attempts to revive crew were made sporadically in the 1920s and 1930s.
By the 1930s, the idea of crew at Georgetown was a distant memory, used to create a sense of nostalgia for a local brewery's ad campaign.
The Heurich Brewing Company, which closed in 1956, had a massive plant on the site of what is today the Kennedy Center.
During the 1940-1941 academic year, a group of some 40 Georgetown students formed a rowing club. Using shells borrowed from the Potomac Boat Club, they competed in five races, wining one (on the Potomac against Rollins College.)
In the spring of 1958, George Washington Crew Coach, Fred Maletz, posted a notice on a restaurant window in Georgetown, calling for recruits to help the GW crew practice. After 45 Hoya undergraduates responded, Maletz found himself coaching two crews and was unpaid for his work with the Georgetown crew. The informal Georgetown team used one shell borrowed from GW and another borrowed from the Potomac Boat Club.
In 1960, the Water Sports Center, now known as the Thompson Boat Center, was dedicated, ensuring that the Georgetown crew had place to store its boats.
A year before regaining University recognition, coverage of the crew team returned to pages of the yearbook.
In 1961, Crew was given University recognition and an annual budget of $1000.
In total, the Class of 1961 raised $3100.
Total income was $11, 379, mostly from gifts and donations. Total expenses were $9, 225.
In March 1960, Fred Maletz, who worked for the State Department, was transferred to the American Embassy in Iran and Don Cadle, a former Yale and Oxford crew member, volunteered as head Crew Coach. During the season, he ran a morning workout at 6:00 a.m., put in a full day at NASA, and returned for the end of the freshman workout at 6 p.m.
The 1964 Yearbook paid tribute to his dedication and coaching ability: The unique English system of organization and the theory of crew are by far the greatest contributions of the former Yale-Oxford oarsman. This philosophy, so applicable to life in general, is inherent in every success story–hard work, dedication, and magnaminity. These ideals he taught through example; the realization and reward felt in a flawless "eight" when all are mentally and physically together, a feeling of perfection, achievement, and comradeship– the feeling of actual power that men can produce when they work together for a commmon goal. All of this is had through voluntary individual commitment, and is bound in an unshakeable fraternal relationship.
Coach Cadle moved to Germany in 1964 to enter his family's textile business. However, he stayed in touch with Georgetown and its rowers, writing to them, phoning after races to learn the results, and even sending uniforms.
The crew compiled a creditable record, highlighted by a second place finish in small college national rowing championship at the Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia.
Signed by 11 of the 13 crew members who were awarded "G" certificates.
In 1962, the crew went undefeated and won the varsity and junior varsity titles at the Dad Vail Regatta.
The Georgetown varsity eight defeated 21 college boats to win by more than three boat lengths. In a near sweep, Georgetown also won the junior varsity race and was runner-up for the freshman title.
The Georgetown varsity eight defeated 21 college boats to win by more than three boat lengths. In a near sweep, Georgetown also won the junior varsity race and was runner-up for the freshman title.
The eight from the Ratzeburg Rowing Club in Germany had won the 1962 world championship at 2,000 meters with a time of five minutes 50.8 seconds. The Germans defeated Georgetown by three lengths in a time of 6 minutes 3 seconds. Georgetown finished in 6 minutes 15 and St. Joseph's College of Philadelphia in 6 minutes 22.5 seconds.
In the 1963 season, the varsity crew defeated all its regular season opponents, losing only to Ratzeburg and placing second at the Vails.
As in the early days of the century, student organizations put on benefit concerts to raise money for crew.
Note the make-up of the "challenge team" on the back cover of the program. The first four team members from bottom to top are: John F. Kennedy, U.S. President; Edward B. Bunn, S.J., Georgetown President; Don Cadle, Head Coach of the Georgetown Crew, who had rowed for Oxford and Yale; and Richard M. Nixon, who had narrowly lost the 1960 Presidential election to Kennedy.
Coach Sanborn, an investigator for the Federal Aviation Agency, offered to leave his paying position as head coach at George Washington University to replace Don Cadle as Georgetown Coach in January 1964. He left the Hoyas that June because of a job relocation but not before he coached them to a Dad Vail victory.
In 1964, the Varsity Crew again won at the Vail. This victory was not a foregone conclusion, however. The Hoyas had lost the D.C. Area Championships the previous week. And earlier in the season, they had been defeated by the traditionally strong teams of Marietta and St. Joseph's, both of whom lost to the Hoyas at the Vail.
On May 13, 1989, the Georgetown heavyweight varsity crew of 1964 again took to the Schuylkill, not for a race but for a commemorative row-by. In the shell were: Rick Reynolds, '65 (for the missing Fred Vollbrecht), Mark Pisano, '64, Bill MacNeill, '66, Darro Angelini, '66, Jack Hoeschler, '64, Pete Blyberg, '65, Marc O'Brien, '64 (for the deceased Mike Mullen), Linc Hoffman, '65 (for Dan Ebert, killed in Vietnam), and coxswain Doug (Tiger) Sergeant, '64.
In a lightweight boat, the maximum weight for an oarsman is 155 pounds, and the boat cannot average over 150 pounds per man.
The Lightweights actually formed during the 1963 season but did not compete until 1964.
According to an essay, "The History of the Georgetown Crew" by Lawrence H. Cooke which appears in the book, Swift Potomac's Lovely Daughter: Two Centuries at Georgetown through Student's Eyes, the 1964 Vail winning season marked the beginning of the long association between the crew and the Tombs restaurant. Many of the 1965 rowers called themselves the Black Velvets because several oarsmen would go to the Tombs to drink a combination of Guinness beer and champagne.
The Tombs was opened by Richard McCooey (C'52) in 1962. Today numerous oars commemorating Georgetown crew successes are displayed on the restaurant's wall.
All coaching was on a volunteer basis. The crew's alumni association, the Golden Oar Society, contributed $1100 during this academic year.
After the departure of Coach Sanborn, a group of Georgetown alumni, including Frank Barrett and Robert Remuzzi (who coached while attending Medical School), took on coaching duties.
Despite relatively small allotments of money from the University (for the 1965-1966 academic year, the sum was $2000), the Crew managed to amass about $27,500 worth of capital equipment, a testament to their determination and the generosity of their supporters.
In the fall of 1966, Tony Johnson became Head Heavyweight Crew Coach. A native of Arlington, Virginia, Johnson rowed for Syracuse during his college career. The Georgetown job was his first coaching position. He had an immediate impact on the crew program–in 1967 the varsity eight came second at the Dad Vail Regatta and won in 1968 and 1969. In the summer of 1969 he was recruited by Yale to become their head coach. While at Yale, his squads won several major championships, including the national title in 1982. He was named Eastern Coach of the Year the same year. He would return to Georgetown in the fall of 1989.
One of the nation's leading oarsmen, Johnson coached while training for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. He had represented the U.S. with Jim Edmunds in the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 and finished tenth. In 1967, he and partner Larry Hough, an ensign in the Navy, became U.S., Pan American, and European Champions. They were favored to win gold at Mexico City but rowed to a silver. In one of a series of accounts written for The Hoya by Johnson while in Mexico City, he was phlegmatic about his silver medal saying: Larry and I rowed a good race and we have no complaints or excuses.
Johnson was Georgetown's first Olympic competitor in a non‑track and field event. He returned to the Olympics in 1972 as the assistant U.S. rowing coach.
The Georgetown heavyweight eight won the Washington area championship in a time of 5:58 for 2000 meters.
At the 1968 Dad Vail Regatta, the Hoyas captured the Jack Bratten Trophy for overall points. The Heavyweight Eight, Rusty Duffy, John Napolitano, Steve Bavaria, Jack Murray, Fred Pennekamp, Mike Vespoli, Ron DeGrandis, stroke Rick Morris, and coxswain John King rowed to victory in a time of 6:00.6, a course record. The junior varsity heavyweight crew and freshman heavyweight team finished third and second respectively.
When Michael Vespoli tried out for the Georgetown freshman crew team, he had never stroked an oar. During his senior year, however, his boat won the Dad Vail gold and, by 1972, he was an Olympian, placing fifth in the coxed four in the Munich final. He continued to compete for four years after Munich, rowing in the eight that won gold in the 1974 World Championships and 1975 Pan American Games, finishing fifth in the 1975 Worlds, and qualifying for the 1976 Olympic trials.
After holding a number of coaching positions, he decided to go into the boat-building business. The company he founded, Vespoli USA, became the largest manufacturer of rowing shells in North America and the largest producer of 8-oar shells worldwide.
In 1979, he became one of the youngest inductees into GU's Athletic hall of Fame and, in 1984, he was inducted into the National Rowing Foundation Hall of Fame.
1969 saw a repeat as the overall point champions at Dad Vail. The Hoya heavyweights won the Dad Vail Cup, while the junior varsity heavyweights took third and freshman heavyweights finished second.
Greg Carroll played many roles in the development of rowing at Georgetown, including those of oarsman (1968-1971), coach, and fund-raiser. In 1989, the crew dedicated two new four-oared shells, one to the memory of Dick Follett, father of Kendra Follett, C'86, and one – Mr. Wonderful – to the memory of Greg Carroll.
Pennekamp was inducted into the Georgetown Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984 and, in 1999, he received the John Carroll Award.
Forster learned to row as an undergraduate at Georgetown and continued after graduation from the Business School in 1970. He rowed (with Michael Vespoli) in the U.S. four-oared-shell-with-coxswain team in the Munich Olympics in 1972 and was a member of the U.S. National teams that competed in the World Championships in 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1977. He won a gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in the four-without-coxswain event.
A Marine Corps veteran who was awarded two Purple Heart Medals in Vietnam, Forster served in various capacities in Georgetown's Athletic Department, including as assistant athletic director for finance, as head coach of men's crew, and as overall coordinator of the men's and women's crews. In 1982, he was inducted into the Georgetown University Athletic Hall of Fame.
The varsity heavyweights won the gold medal for the fifth time in ten years, beating St. Joseph's in rain and fog by 5.5 seconds.
Meyers rowed on four medal-winning boats (two golds and two silvers) in the Dad Vail regattas during his years at Georgetown. After graduation, he won gold medals in two U.S. Nationals championships. At the induction ceremony he commented that I feel my former teammates are responsible formuch if not most of my athletic success, and I am deeply touched and honored that they think I should be up here tonight.
In 1972, Delanne Bernier served as coxswain for the crew and drew the ire of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference whose rules forbade women to compete with men in ECAC events.
Fifteen years earlier, the ECAC had enforced the same rule, barring Kathleen D. "Skippy" White, N'57 and Carole Bloise, N'58 (the first two Georgetown woman to win varsity letters) from competing in sailing events.
As a club, the women's crew received no money from the University, organizing social events, row-a-thons and bake sales to fund their activities. In 1978, the Athletic Board voted to recommend the elevation of Women's Crew to varsity status.
Under Coach Devlin's guidance, the Hoyas won five gold medals at the Dad Vail Championships. Georgetown also earned seven trips to the U.S. Collegiate Championships, bringing home the gold medal – Georgetown's first – in 1988. Georgetown named him Coach of the Year in 1987.
A four-year heavyweight oarsman at Georgetown himself, Devlin was heavyweight captain his senior year and was a member of the 1969 and 1971 Dad Vail gold medal teams. After college, he competed with the New Haven Rowing Club and the Potomac Boat Club, wining two gold medals in the Canadian Henley and a silver at the U.S. Nationals. Devlin was also a finalist in the 1972 Olympic Trials and the 1974 and 1975 World Championship trials.
In 2002, he was inducted into the Georgetown Athletic Hall of Fame.
The inside of the card reads:
Rowing dialogue by Joseph Wesner, C'77
Rowing to both participant and supporter is a chaotic and powerful collection of elements. This drawing depicts the symmetry, motion, strength, and awkward finesse that powers an eight-oared shell down a course. The artist is a varsity heavyweight oarsman at Georgetown.
Four members of the Georgetown Varsity Crew Team competed at the Henley Royal Regatta, the oldest regatta, on the Thames River in England. Jim Costello, Dave McAneny, Peter Radell and Mark Wessel placed in the top four of 27 teams. This was the first time a Hoya crew had competed in international competition.
Jo Ann Grainger was the first member of the women's crew to be inducted into the Georgetown Athletic Hall of Fame. Over the course of the 1978, 1979 and 1980 seasons, the women's varsity crew of which she was a part lost only one regular season race and won a silver medal at the Dad Vail Regatta in 1980. After graduation, she and Lynne Kosobucki, C'83, won the U.S. National Lightweight Pair title. In 1984, she won a gold medal at the World Championships.
Georgetown began its season by defeating the Egyptian Rowing Federation and the Potomac Boat Club in eights on the Potomac. The Egyptians won a fours race by 3 seconds over PBC and 6.5 seconds over Georgetown. During their stay in Washington, the Egyptian rowers were housed by members of GURA.
The women's varsity and junior varsity crews were gold medal winners at the small college national rowing championship at Dad Vail in Philadelphia in 1983. The women's varsity crew also won there in 1987 and 1993. For the first time in over a decade, the Hoya took home the Jack Bratten Trophy for overall points, with the freshman heavyweights placing third and the freshmen and JV lightweight eights both capturing silver medals.
Coach Schoch was the first full-time coach in Georgetown rowing history. He oversaw the transition of crew from a student-run organization to a team fully integrated into the Athletic Department. Georgetown crews won nine Dad Vail medals in the years he served as head coach and won the Jack Bratten Trophy for overall points twice.
Athletic news from Georgetown University.
This year brought another good showing at the Vail for the women, as the women's junior varsity eight won a silver and the team captured the Evelyn Bergman Cup in the finals of the women's varsity eight. The men's freshman lightweight eight won their division.
After playing field hockey as a freshman, Kelley Jones began rowing in her sophomore year. As a junior she and her teammates won a gold medal at the 1987 Dad Vail Regatta in the open-8 event. As a senior she was named team MVP and helped power her open-4 crew to a gold medal at the NCAA Women's Rowing Championships. She also represented the U.S., rowing for the national team from 1989-1992, capping her international career by participating in the 1992 Olympic games.
The 1988 season saw the Georgetown men's lightweight eight win the first of three consecutive small college national rowing championships at the Dad Vail Regatta. The Hoyas captured the Jack Bratten Trophy for overall points with a win for the men's junior varsity lightweight eight and a second place finish for the men's novice/freshman lightweight eight.
For the second consecutive year, Georgetown's varsity and junior varsity lightweights both won gold medals. The novice/freshman lightweights also won gold, completing a Georgetown sweep of the lightweight events. Based on the team's repeated success at the Dad Vail Regatta, the Varsity Lightweight team was invited to compete for the 1989 National Collegiate Lightweight Championship, finishing fifth.
After an absence of twenty years, Tony Johnson, an Arlington, Virginia native, returned to the Hilltop as head coach. Robert Remuzzi, C'61, M'66, who – with Frank Barrett – preceded Tony Johnson as head-coach in the mid-1960s, said of Johnson's return: "Tony and the program do very well with each other . . . he was a tremendous asset when he was at Georgetown and we were very sorry when he left . . ."
Pictured, second from left, Coach Tony Johnson with Marc Siegel, Neal Gardner, Goff Baker, Brad Moriarty, and coxswain Julie Kennedy
The Hoya men's crew won its first Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship with a victory in the varsity four with coxswain at the 89th IRA Championships on Lake Onondaga in Syracuse, N.Y. They won the race in a time of 7:12.6, beating Navy by 1.2 seconds.
The labels were produced for bottles of wine, provided by Robert M. Wagner (F'48), from Maddalena Vineyards, Los Angeles, California.
In 1993 the Hoya crew team captured its third consecutive Jack Bratten Trophy for overall points and won medals in six events at the small college national rowing championship at Dad Vail in Philadelphia. The women's heavyweight eight won, repeating their gold medal performances from 1983 and 1987, and the men's lightweight JV won its sixth Dad Vail medal in a row.
. . . What we will take from this trip is not the rowing, the practices, but the cultural experiences and the friendships that we made with the Japanese people, as well as a tighter bond forged within our team.
Conal Groom (C'95) competed in the lightweight men's double at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Missy Schwen Ryan (F'94), who won a silver medal at the 1996 Olympics, competed in the women's coxless pair repechage at the Sydney Games, capturing bronze.
Curated by Lynn Conway, University Archivist


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It was interesting, to say the least…and a bit unsettling on a number of levels.
First, there is probably going to be a reaction to the "R" word being even mentioned (by Kolzig himself) – "retirement." Kolzig notes that:
"I've talked to my wife about retirement. Things just haven't gone as well for me as I've thought the past two years. I'll wait and see how things play out."
"Retirement?" Kolzig? He's been a fixture in this organization since he was drafted 19th overall in the 1989 entry draft. More than 300 regular season and playoff wins, 41 shutouts, the greatest playoff run in the history of the franchise in the 1998 Stanley Cup tournament, a Vezina Trophy, and holder of every meaningful record for goaltenders in the history of the franchise. An entire generation of Caps fans has grown up knowing only Kolzig as the team's netminder.
But it's easy to read too much into one quote, too. We'll bet there isn't a person reading these words this morning who hasn't had a string of bad days at the office; who, if not quite on the wrong side of the boss, wasn't quite on the same page, either. Kolzig has had what, for him no doubt, has been a frustrating year – his lowest save percentage in more than a decade (since before he became the full-time number one), a sub-.500 record (despite climbing back, as he points out from eight games under .500 to one game down), a change in coaches from one who played the position to one who didn't.
And it is this last bit that is disturbing about the article. There are essentially two themes here, one every professional athlete has to face, the other of the sort that can be manufactured (or exaggerated) for effect.
The first is the athlete who, if he is not quite at the end of the road, can see it. Kolzig will be 38-years old in April. He's played almost 750 games in the NHL (regular season and playoffs), faced more than 20,000 shots, played 43,000 minutes. He's also won more than 300 games (regular season and playoffs), and one doesn't reach that milestone without being a supremely proud and competitive individual, not to mention skilled. To expect such an individual to go quietly to the end of that road just isn't going to happen, and it is that kind of stubborn resistance to the march of time and its relentless, inevitable effect on skills that makes a player such as Kolzig the elite goaltender he's been for the past ten years, despite toiling for a club whose talents around him often did not come close to matching his.
In that, there is nothing surprising about the frustration that permeates his comments about his play and the potential for his retirement. For those of us who might be as close to that day as Kolzig, we might have said out loud, "maybe it's time." But a lot of the time that is as much frustration over things not going well at work as it is casting a serious eye toward a life change. The day is going to come when Kolzig will move to the next part of his life, but for fans, perhaps one should not read too much into these comments…not yet.
The other theme is conflict, and reading this article I wondered if it was real or manufactured. Kolzig and Glen Hanlon enjoyed the common experience of playing the position of goaltender. If they shared nothing else, it would be in the knowledge of what it takes to play that unique position and what it means to deal with those singular pressures night in and night out. But what Hanlon didn't share as keenly, if one is only looking at the records of the club before and after the change behind the bench, is an appreciation for the nature of the other positions on the ice, especially those of the skilled positions. The wraps were tight around the skaters over the first 21 games, during which the Caps won only six times, only three times in last 18 games under Hanlon. It was a club that couldn't, or perhaps more accurately – "didn't" – score goals (this has not been a problem under Bruce Boudreau) and was watching the kids – Nicklas Backstrom and Mike Green most notably – getting off to slower starts than fans might have imagined.
It wasn't a case that Hanlon was a bad coach, per se, but rather that he might have been a poor match for this club at the state of development it was in. While he might have – and certainly indicated – that he was the right man for the job during the early days of the rebuild, when kids needed protective cover to develop, he might not have been as willing to throw off the wraps when it was necessary to do so, to allow the skills the players have (especially the younger ones) express themselves.
Enter Bruce Boudreau, who "raised" some of these kids in Hershey and who was/is a bigger risk taker in terms of the offensive aspects of the game – sometimes at the expense of goaltenders. Kolzig's statistics have suffered under Boudreau – 3.14, .879 in 21 games – while his win-loss record has improved (10-6-4). But Sunday, he was pulled after 26:08 and giving up four goals on 16 shots. Kolzig noted that the goals were not so much bad as they were, in his word, "circumstantial." He has a point. For example, the last goal – the one that sent him to the bench – deflected off a stick, and he still managed to get a glove on it, although not enough to keep it out of the net.
Out of this, we're provided this comment…
"Bruce is not a goaltender guy. One thing about Bruce, he's hard on goalies because he doesn't understand the position. And a lot of coaches that haven't played the position are usually that way. You know: 'Just stop the puck and get it done. Doesn't matter how or what.' That's something I've got to get used to because I've had Glennie here for so long and obviously being a goaltender, he understands the situation and the position."
A lot of folks are going to read that first sentence and mutter, "uh-oh, there's a problem in the locker room…the coach and the team leader aren't on the same page." I read the last sentence…"it's something I've got to get used to." Again, think of your own situation where you might have worked for a boss who shares your educational or professional experience. You achieve something of a comfort level in that working relationship. Then, a new boss arrives – different experience, different attitude, different philosophy. Have you felt somewhat "apart" as a result of that, that perhaps the new boss doesn't "understand" your situation or your needs? Look at it another way by way of a question…"was Ron Wilson a goaltender guy?" Kolzig won an Eastern Conference championship with Wilson. I don't read anything into "that's something I've got to get used to" other than precisely that. It is a new working environment.
But Wise chose to play an odd twist that underlines the nature of the "conflict" – there is the gratuitous swipe at Boudreau ("essentially the Crash Davis of hockey?"), and the reference to Kolzig as "a piece of Washington sports memorabilia." Both comments seem to me unfair to their subjects, characterizing one as the hockey equivalent of a bus-riding bumpkin (who, not insignificantly, won more than 330 games in the AHL with consecutive trips to the league championship final, winning once), the other as a relic to be dusted occasionally and treated lovingly until he can go out on his own terms. And underlying that is – as always, it seems – the contract, in this case the absence of discussions of an extension for Kolzig.
The object of the exercise is to win games and compete for championships. Sports is the ultimate meritocracy in that respect, and we suspect both coach and player know that. The livelihood of each depends on being successful in that pursuit. The Caps are winning (which means Kolzig has been winning, even if his "statistics" are not up to his usual standard), largely on the basis of an emergence of what was until late November dormant fire-power, but occasionally as a result of the efforts of the big guy in goal.
Kolzig isn't quite done, yet, although he has many more games behind him than ahead of him. Boudreau isn't entirely ignorant as to the value and necessity of having a strong, experienced netminder to be there when the kids get a bit too rambunctious.
I suspect that while there are those who will read a bit too much into the quotes and general tenor of the article, it is merely a snapshot of the occasional frustration one experiences from time to time as a professional in a changing work setting, the kind of which that might get a person thinking about retirement or perhaps a new job. It might come to that, but "might" is a far cry from "will."
As for the situation here, read it for what it is…"that's something I have to get used to."


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INFO: Adventure started with the long journey which lasted more than five hours. It was the destination from Sweden to the Hurgada in Egypt. After that we had five more hours by bus through the desert. We arrived in the Luxor our final destination in the late afternoon just after the sunset and checked in on our hotel or the boat. We stayed at the boat with name of La Boheme. La Boheme boat has been inaugurated in 2008. This exquisite vessel is built according to the standard of the new 5-star deluxe generation of the Nile boats. Inside the boat was exactly as described in brochure and I was really pleased.
YEAR: March 2012
STORY: Early in the morning we started our first day in the Luxor by visiting the Valley of the Kings. The valley where used for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC as a tombs constructed for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom (the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt). The valley stands on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor), within the heart of the Theban Necropolis. The wadi consists of two valleys, East Valley (where the majority of the royal tombs are situated) and West Valley. Photography wasn't allowed and we left our cameras at the bus. I was been there 3 times before and will upload some pictures later in my photo gallery.
Our next stop was at the Hatshepsut temple. She was well known as the first female pharaoh. This temple was located beneath the cliffs at Deir el Bahari on the west bank of the Nile and near the previews visited Valley of the Kings. This was my first visit to this temple considering that I have been in Luxor many times before. It was already plenty with tourist present at the site making my photographing more difficult. Taking the shot of the whole temple without people was almost impossible. Nowadays we have the Photoshop which can fix all this problem but it still takes some time to do the work. I started taking the photos with my Hasselblad but I didn't cheek for the battery. I forgot my second battery at the bus… somehow. Luckily I had with me my Canon 5D Mark II with 16-35 F/2.8 Mark II which did good work anyway. I was really hot and after 45 minutes we decided to leave the place and continue to the next place.
The alabaster factory and the shop was the next stop. This is the part of the tourist attraction showing the way how to hand made the alabaster vases and other products. Even for tourists to spent some money and help local economy. The shop had anything you wanted created in all kind of the stones and other material inspired from the ancient times. The last place to visit was the Colossi of Memnon or two massive stone statues depicting the Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Both statues are quite damaged, with the features above the waist virtually unrecognizable. The western (or southern) statue is a single piece of stone, but the eastern (or northern) figure has a large extensive crack in the lower half and above the waist consists of 5 tiers of stone. These upper levels consist of a different type of sandstone, and are the result of a later (Roman Empire) reconstruction attempt. It is believed that originally the two statues were identical to each other, although inscriptions and minor art may have varied. I have been there many times before but this time we where the only visitors. I made many good shots with my Hasselblad without single people in the front of the statues and was really happy about that.
Next and the last visit in the Luxor before we stared our cruise was located at the other side of the Nile and it was the temple of the Karnak. The Karnak Temple Complex comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings. The complex is a vast open-air museum and the largest ancient religious site in the world. It is one of the mostly visited historical place in Egypt after the Giza Necropolis in the Cairo area. I have been in this temple complex many times before and it was always crowded with the tourists. Right now after Egypt's revolution number of the tourist was less that usually and was good for my photography. I used my Hasselblad with the 35 mm and my 5D Mark II with 16-35 as well. The rest of the afternoon we spent at the boat floating in the south direction to our next stop. I took many pictures from the upper deck during this day.
Day 2 We started early in the morning by visiting the Horus temple located in the city of Edfu. Transportation from the harbor to the temple was organized by the horse chariot. The temple was located in the middle of the city and the trip was short but interesting. Whole town was built on he same location as the old one and as the guide pointed probably on the original ground foundation. This is the same story all over the Egypt. Temple of Edfu is one of the best preserved temples in Egypt. The temple was dedicated to the falcon god Horus-Apollo and was built in the Ptolemaic period between 237 and 57 BC. The inscriptions on its walls provide important information on language, myth and religion during the Greco-Roman period in ancient Egypt. It was plenty with salesman in the front of the entrance trying (aggressively) to sale their products. They don't accept no please or not interesting and continuously follow after you. This is everywhere in the Egypt not just in the Edfu and is the part of the adventure. I used my Hasselblad with 35mm and Leica D-Lux 5 to document this ancient site.
We get same kind of the transportation on the way back through the towns main street. When all passenger was back on the boat than we continued to float to the new destination. During this afternoon I was on the upper deck taking the pictures of the landscape and people on the river Nile.
We arrived late in the afternoon at the Kom Ombo temple area. The temple was located five minutes from the docking station and we just took the shot walk to get there. It was the beautiful light with the afternoon sun crating ideal atmosphere for photography. We arrived almost first at the temple area and I took few good shots outside the temple with just a few people inside the temple.
The Temple of Kom Ombo is an unusual double temple built during the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. It was dedicated for tow gods, crocodile god Sobek and falcon god Horus. Soon after the guided presentation we get an hour to explore temple and wait for the sunset. On the way back as already mentioned before you need to past through the salesman barrier. If you want to win this battle (if you are not interesting to buy anything) simply ignore them and avoid the eye contact. Same evening we continued to cruse south on the way to the Aswan. We arrived late in the evening and anchored at the same place for the three nights.
Day 3
We started early in the morning around seven o'clock. We always get wake up calls from the reception approximately one hour before excursions. This was enough with time to wake up and even for the breakfast. This morning was planed for visiting the Philae Temple of Isis, on Agilkia Island in Lake Nasser and the Aswan dam. Mini bus was waiting outside ready to take us to the first destination. We draw through the city and get possibility to see some people on the street on their way to the work. Aswan dam was constructed to control overflow of the river Nile and for production of the electricity. The dam was constructed between 1960 and 1970, and has had a significant impact on the economy and culture of Egypt. We had 30 min to take some pictures and read some information about construction and usage. I took shots from both sides of the dam and even the monument called The Lotus-Tower. This tower was the gift from Soviet to Egypt when dam was finished.
I was more exited to see the temple of Isis. To rich to the island and visit the temple we had to use the small motor boat. Just before the harbor area where all tourists busies stop was located plenty of shops with attacking salesman's. It was noting new or uprising and so far we get enough with practicing and learned how to avoid them. Our guide arranged the private boat for only our group. This short boat adventure lasted round the fifteen minutes and son after we saw the island and the temple. We get on the land, passed one more salesman invasion in order to start with our guided tour in the temple complex.
The island temple was built during the Ptolemaic dynasty. The principal deity of the temple complex was Isis, but other temples and shrines were dedicated to other deities such as Hathor and Harendotes. When Aswan Low Dam was completed it threatened many ancient landmarks, including the temple complex of Philae, with being submerged. In 1960 UNESCO started a project to try to save the buildings on the island from the destructive effect of the ever increasing waters of the Nile. The weather was really nice and with few tourists giving me opportunity to explore and photograph in piece. One of the small temple was still under the reconstruction and I saw few workers working on it. On previous visit on the dam and here in the temple complex I used only my Canon 5D Mark II with EF 16-35 F/2.8 Mark II and Sigma 70-200 OS for documentation.
In the late afternoon we arranged two the cars to visit the special coffee shop located on the hill above the city. The place had the great view on the city and surrounding. We had a plan to spend an hour there and later take a walk on the bazaar located in the middle of the city. Only me and my two new friends went there by our self and was the only tourist walking around. It was many shops and salesman's located on the each side of the walking street willing to sale and to get us inside their shops. We hadn't plan to by anything it was just curiosity that was the main reason of visit. Later we saw huge shop with plenty of the exotic spices and decided to follow inside. Saffron is really exotic and expensive spice here in the Sweden and the guy from the shop said that he had some for sale. He promised the good price and that it was the real stuff and we bought 45 gram each. I don't have any shots from this walk or any place.
Day 4
Day 4 started really early in the morning. We get wake up call 30min before our trip started or 03:30 AM. Breakfast box was prepared and waited in the reception. Somewhere in the Aswan city was the minting point for all cars and busies planed for desert drive. We left the city just few minutes after 04:00 AM and started the more than three hours drive south of the Aswan in the direction to the Sudan. We saw sunrise from the mini bus driving more than 100km/h and taking picture wasn't good idea. I get 45 min sleep in the bus and was pleased with that. Usually I can't sleep in the car or bus and this time I was really happy with that.
The Abu Simbel temples are two massive rock temples in Abu Simbel area. Both temples were originally carved out of the mountainside during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the 13th century BC. Ramses II built those temples to himself and his queen Nefertari, to commemorate his alleged victory at the Battle of Kadesh, and to intimidate his Nubian neighbors. The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir.
We arrived at the 07:30 in the temple area and get guided tour as usually. After that we had almost two hours for our self to explore and photograph. It was plenty with tourists but if you have patience you can get picture without tourists on it. Me and my new friend from the group who was interested in photography worked really hard and succeeded to get plenty with good shots.
We come back to the boat round the two o'clock and lunch was served. Afternoon was free from any kind activities and we spent some time on the upper deck lying on the comfortable sun beds with some Egyptians beer. Later after the dinner we had belly dancing show and some kind of the dervish dance but on the Egyptian way.
Day 5
After breakfast round the 8 o'clock was the time for the sailing with the traditional sailing boat called Feluccas. After 45 min sailing we changed to the motor boat and it was the time for some exploration of the flora and fauna. The guide was the expert on the birds and I was really happy to hear that. We saw plenty of the birds and I get some really cool shots. Our next stop was the Nubian village and if someone was interesting even camel riding. I was the only one who didn't wanted to ride and arrived to the village by the boat. I get cool pictures from my group members riding on the camel backs and having the desert in the background. We visited one Nubian house and had really fun experience with house owner and their big family. Family women's was playing and dancing for us and later even some of our group members joined as well. This family had baby crocodiles as the house pets captured from the river Nile. We had enough with time to visit the local school and learn how to count to 10 in the Arabic and Nubian language. After that it was the time to come back to the boat and had a lunch.
This was the last day in the Aswan and we started to cruises back to Luxor. It was planed that it would take two days to reach to the Luxor with two stops during the nights. Same evening we had funny theme by using the same cloth from previous Egyptian night. Late at the evening we arrived in the Edfu and stayed for a night. Just before the sun set we went outside the boat to the local coffee shop and had some fun.
Day 6
We had late breakfast at the 8 o'clock and free time on the boat all the way back to the Luxor. it was planed to reach the Luxor in the late afternoon and later visit the local carpet shop and the temple of the Luxor. We had quick visit to the captain cabin during the time and get short information about our boats history. In the afternoon we reached to the Esna lock on the Nile River. Plenty of salesman was around the lock trying to sale their handcrafts and other products. Most of them was children and few was adults. We continued our trip and as the planed we arrived to the Luxor round the 3 o'clock.
The first visit was to the one bazaar area with the carpet shop located close to the Luxor temple. The owner was really funny guy and had plenty with beautiful silk carpets, but no one bought any of them. I guess no one was prepared to spend bigger amount of money even if the price was extremely good. After this place we went to the Luxor temple. The sun was on the way down and I missed opportunity to document this monument during the daylight. All ancient monument in the Egypt are illuminated which binged the opportunity to get nice night shots. I had with me my monopod which helped me a lot considering that my Hasselblad don't have high ISO opportunities. I didn't planed that we are going to spent so much time at the market place and didn't binged with me my 5D Mark II. I succeeded to take few good shots with beautiful light of the parts of the complex before the night was over. With this temple my Nile adventure was over.
Day 7
We waked up really early in the morning and checked out from our boat. We still had round 400 km left to the Huragada city located on the Red Sea coust. At least five hours drive through the desert with one short stop before airport and five more hour flight to the Stockholm Sweden. The whole bus trip was nice and safe and we got some extra time to drive inside the Huragada and drop half of the group at their hotel for one more week and rest of the group including me strait way back to the airport to catch the plain to Sweden.
More photos in my photo gallery
• Camera: Hasselblad H1 & P30+
• Lens: HC 35mm F/3.5, HC 80mm F/2,8
• Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
• Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm F/2.8 L USM Mark II and Sigma 70-200 F/2.8 DG HSM OS
• Camera: Leica D-Lux 5
If you are interesting in photography and you are on your way to the Egypt you should consider this:
1. The weather is always good and it newer rain which mean that you don't need to worry about damming your camera with water. On the other hand if you are vising the desert areas you should consider that it is windy sometimes and small dust and sand particle can end in your equipment. So have in mind that you need to protect your camera somehow and clean later back to your hotel or place of say. Sand can easily damage your lens or inside your camera house. If you are just visiting the historical sites than you don't need to worry so much. Usually you have the bus transportation all the way to the site and most of the places are located in the urban areas. Giza plateau and Sakara desert are little bit more open areas and you should be careful.
2. Most of the sites don't allow tripod to be used so check before you are visiting. Some places do but with paying some extra fee. I had monopod on the few places and i dint payed any extra for that. Only the one place is not allowing any kind of photography and this is the Valley of the Kings. We get recommendation from our guide to left the camera in safety on the bus. Flash was not allowed in the just few places. I newer use the flash and can't remember in which areas was not allowed.
3. The light can be really different depending of which time you are visiting the site. Even in the morning the light can be really harsh creating the strong shadows. It is not easy for cameras if you are using camera on auto or any other program to meet the light properly and you can get sometimes some parts under or over exposed. I always photograph with manual preferences and like to have control over my camera. I don't even use auto ISO as well. In some situation I choose to underexpose my shots and later fix it with the help of software than to overexpose and lost all details. Taking shots in desert when you have light colored sand reflecting the sunlight and blue sky with some clouds sometimes can be problematic and using the filters can help a lot. Even the best screen behind the camera can be difficult to see and use when the light is to strong and using the histogram is really important. If you don't know how to use it than take some research on the internet and learn it. It is really easy to understand how it works and can save your day.
Good luck…


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So, I finished 12 books in August, which seems to pretty much be my new normal. This month it was almost half and half, 5.33 audiobooks and 6.66 print or ebooks (I started Godiva in audio, and then switched to print partway through. This comes down to a little over 60 hours of audio and not quite 2500 pages of print. The audiobooks are flying by these days, because I started doing the Couch to 5K running program (I'll be running an actual 5k at the end of September) and I listen while I run.
One thing I have been not so good at lately is getting stuff actually posted on the blog. I have about a million posts in draft, and never any time to write them. I'm hoping I can get in a slightly more regular schedule again after Daniel goes back to preschool.
What I Reviewed:
Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie, narrated by Marisa Calin
The Humans by Matt Haig, narrated by Mark Meadows
Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff, narrated by Mitchell Zuckoff
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, narrated by Neil Gaiman
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams, narrated by Kathleen McInerney
The Fairest of Them All by Carolyn Turgeon
Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Historical Fiction
Godiva by Nicole Galland
Pick of the Month:
Other Books Read, Watch for Reviews:
The Registry by Shannon Stoker, narrated by Kate Reinders
The Rathbones by Janice Clark, narrated by Erin Spencer, Cassandra Campbell, Malcom Campbell, Gabrielle De Cuir
The Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Freemantle, narrated by Georgina Sutton
Freud's Mistress by Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman, narrated by Suzanne Toren
The Angel Stone by Juliet Dark
Historical Fiction
Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye
It Takes Two to Tangle by Theresa Romain
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Note: Some of these books were provided to me for review.Copyright protected by Digiprove © 2013


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Twamley, Katherine, Puthussery, Shuby, Harding, Seeromanie, Baron, Maurina and Macfarlane, Alison (2011) UK born ethnic minority women and their experiences of feeding their newborn baby. Midwifery, 27 (5). pp. 595-602. ISSN 0266-6138 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2010.06.016)
Puthussery, Shuby, Twamley, Katherine, Macfarlane, Alison, Harding, Seeromanie and Baron, Maurina (2010) 'You need that loving tender care' : maternity care experiences and expectations of ethnic minority women born in the United Kingdom. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 15 (3). pp. 156-162. ISSN 1355-8196 (Print), 1758-1060 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1258/jhsrp.2009.009067)
Puthussery, Shuby, Twamley, Katherine, Mirsky, Judith, Macfarlane, Alison, Harding, Seeromanie and Baron, Maurina (2009) Born in the UK: Maternity and postnatal care needs of UK-born ethnic minority women. Diversity in Health and Care, 6 (1). pp. 65-72. ISSN 1743-1913 (Print), 1743-4904 (Online)
Twamley, Katherine, Puthussery, Shuby, Macfarlane, Alison, Harding, Seeromanie, Ahmed, Shamoly and Mirsky, Judith (2009) Recruiting UK-born ethnic minority women for health research – Lessons learned. Research Policy and Planning, 27 (1). pp. 25-38. ISSN 0264-519X
Puthussery, Shuby, Twamley, Katherine, Harding, Seeromanie, Mirsky, Judith, Baron, Maurina and Macfarlane, Alison (2008) 'They're more like ordinary stroppy British women': Attitudes and expectations of maternity care professionals to UK-born ethnic minority women. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 13 (4). pp. 195-201. ISSN 1355-8196 (Print), 1758-1060 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1258/jhsrp.2008.007153)