Class of 1963 Freshman Crew

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the Freshman Heavyweight Crew of 1959-60
The crew is lined up Bow to Stroke as follows:
L – R (standing): Tom Taylor, Bill Pettus, Jim Lattimer, Anthony Fiory, Herb Doepken, Murray Morton, Ron Cheek, Chris Miller.
Front: Roger Gans, coxwain.
Note: Ken Anderson became the freshman crew Bow man, replacing Tom Taylor.

the Freshman Lightweight Crew of 1959-60
The people in that (Official MIT) photo of the Freshman Lightweight Crew, Class of 1963 ("First Boat- In Spring 1960) standing on the Dock of the old MIT boat house near the BU (Cottage Farm) Bridge are:
From Left to right:
Stroke Lauren Sompayrac
7 Steve Aldridge
6 Shane Bartleson
5 Ed Kaminski
4 Louis Taff
3 Jack Lynch
2 Robert Ramers
1 Mike Greata
Kneeling:
Dick Chen, spare
Bob Vernon, Coxswain
Gerald Skinner, spare
Ramers was a Sigma Nu with Sompayrac. Ramers dropped out of MIT after his freshman year, but finished with the Class of 1967

Here is the Class of 1963 Freshman Crew, making our first rowing trip ever, up to Dartmouth College in the spring of 1960. I am not 100% certain of every name here; if I have any doubt, I'll indicate it with a (?).
Left to Right, back row: Dick Chen (?); Mike Greata; Jack Lynch; Bob Ramers (?); Ed Kaminski; Lou Taff; Steve Aldrich; Lauren Sompayrac; and Coach, Gary Zwart. Front row: Bob Vernon (all 119 pounds of me).
...Bob Vernon

I'm guessing the line-up is as follows:
Bow - Tom Taylor
#2 - Ron Cheek (the sunglasses are the clue)
#3 - Ken Anderson
#4 - ?
#5 - Jim Latimer
#6 - Murray Morton
#7 - Tony Fiori?
Strk- Chris Miller
Cox - Ron Young

Feel free to pass this around to these guys when/if you ID them all.

Thanks, again, for all your efforts in coordinating this year's row AND for coxing us!

Murray

[Note: I think one of the other guys is coxing here. Maybe Ron Lam?
...Ron Young]

Sketch of the Charles River Basin Race Course, circa 1960

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