THE SUNSET OF CONIBEAR when the 1967 season started. Otherwise, I might not have kept my seat!”4354 Paumgarten: “I made the Varsity boat all three of my upperclass years, and every year I made it on a different criterion. After making the boat on Joe’s judgment in ‘65 and making the boat based on Lights in ‘66, I made the Varsity on points in ‘67. I had seen it all.”4355 Reed Kindermann ‘69, 1967 Jayvee 2- seat: “My boat had some great characters cycle in and out. Howard Greenberg [‘67], Austin Godfrey[‘68] and Steve Cook [‘68]4356 among many other illustrious personages, spent brief periods in the Jayvee boat. “Greenberg’s term for it was ‘just visiting.’”4357 With Joe’s 1967 Varsity and Jayvee initially boated on points and the Varsity rowing their races in the Light Boat, the Quaker crews entered their traditional cup races with momentum. The upperclass ranks had been swelled by two years of Nash’s freshmen, even though only one actual recruit, sophomore John Ferris ‘69, had managed so far to make the Varsity. Purdy: “The contrast between Ted as coach and Joe as coach was very evident. Whereas Ted never stopped talking, Joe was a man of very few words. I have always thought that a combination of the two would be an ideal amalgamation. Joe never got excited. He just told us what he thought we needed to know and expected us to supply the rest.”4358 Paumgarten: “Ted had always seemed to look at me as if I at 6’2” 170 lbs. didn’t belong. I had arrived at Penn before him, but I ended up rowing in the Varsity for 4354 Allen, personal correspondence, 2005 4355 Paumgarten, personal conversation, 2007 4356 who ended up in 4-, 5- and 6-seats in the 1967 Varsity at the IRA. 4357 Kindermann, personal correspondence, 2007 4358 Purdy, op. cit. J. Findlay Allen Nash checking out Paumgarten three years. In 1967, there were still four of us pre-Nash seniors in the boat, and I was also the captain of that team.”4359 By the end of the 1967 season, the Penn Varsity also contained five members of the 1965 St. Anthony Hall Henley Crew, Nick Paumgarten, Hap Allen, Steve Cook, Bill Purdy and Arthur Sculley! The Penn Heavies began the 1967 season by sweeping the Childs Cup against Princeton and Columbia, and then did the same at the Blackwell Cup against Yale and Columbia, coming from behind to beat the Elis by 2.0 seconds.4360 The Harvard Race Sculley: “The Varsity used the Light Boat in winning the Childs and Blackwell Cups and felt modestly confident but anxious when we went to the Charles River for the Adams Cup. “It is still not clear exactly what happened during that race. As expected, Harvard jumped out ahead of us in the first quarter-mile in choppy water, but by about 4359 Paumgarten, personal correspondence, 2006 4360 Lincoln A. Werden, Penn Eight beats Yale and Columbia to retain Blackwell Cup, The New York Times, April 30, 1967 1197
