Eddie Krayer, CMS '82, PQts Winning Goal Into the Net for Harvard to Win 1st NCAA Championship!
Trustee President Frieze visits with alumni Neil Alford '88 and Cunliffe McBee IV '85 at New Orleans gathering.
A Report on Cardigan Area Gatherings by Savage C. Frieze, Jr. President, Board of Trustees
Last Fall when I decided to attend all the Cardigan area gatherings during this school year, I didn't realize what an extensive commitment this was . going to be. We started in Boston the week before Christmas at the Harvard Club and finished in Southport, Connecticut, the night before Grandparents' Week end. During previous years I had been able to join the Wakelys at one or two of these gatherings, but this was the first time I had made the whole circuit - ten receptions between December and April from Boston to Houston. It was an ambitious undertaking, and gave me a real appreciation of the time and energy the Wakelys · and Jeff Hicks have been making to complete a schedule like this every year.
I did expect to meet friends of the School - who else would attend these gatherings - but was not prepared for the joy and enthusiasm for Cardigan that was expressed to me all around the country. I know Cardigan is a wonderful school, but I didn't expect to see so many people in so many different places who could hardly wait to tell me their stories about what the School had meant to their grandson, what a wonderful year their son is having and how much they are looking forward to their next visit to the campus. Alumni, too, were eager to tell me about their experiences as well as what they have accomplished since leaving Cardigan. After a while it got to be just like a road show - a different city every night - but the fascinating thing was that I was the audience, not a performer. I didn't have to say anything about See GATHERINGS page 2 1
It takes a whole team to win a hockey game, and a very superior team to win the NC A A championship. But the winning goal comes off one player's stick and on April 1st in St. Paul, Minn. Eddie Krayer was wielding that stick. At the closing gun, the score was tied at 3-3. Four minutes into overtime, the Minnesota goalie stopped a Harvard shot, but the rebound went to Krayer who backhanded the puck neatly into the corner of the net before the goalie could get a hand on it. A crowd of 16,000 Minnesota fans watched in disbelief as the red light blinked on signifying Harvard's first title in any NC A A recognized sport since 1904. Replying to our invitation to CMS's second annual alumni hockey reunion, Eddie said he couldn't be here as he wouJ,d be playing hockey with the Harvard team in Russia over that weekend. Probably just as well; the intense com petition from his fellow alumni might have put him right off his stride.