Inaugural MIT Varsity Women’s Crew Team, 1974

Inaugural MIT Varsity Women’s Crew Team, 1974
Source: Slice of MIT, MIT Alumni Association

Inaugural MIT Varsity Women’s Crew Team, 1974. Pictured from bow to stern are: Joan Pendleton ’76; Diane McKnight ’75, SM ’78, PhD ’79; Beverly Herbert ’75, MCP ’76; Julia Malakie ’77; Christine Tracey ’76; Christine (Plapp) Lofgren ’75, SM ’77; Anne McKinnon; Ingrid (Klass) Gorman ’76, SM ’79, and Roseanna Means ’76, ’77, the coxswain.

I was also active in women's crew--the first African American woman. (Greg Chisholm '73, SM '75, PhD '89 was on the men's crew team before I got involved, and he was very successful.) The women's crew team went from club status to varsity status in 1974.

Beverly L. Herbert, '75, MCP '76, email correspondence, 16 March 2023

Timeline: 1970s
Career: Community
Object: Image
Collection: Athletics, Integration and Differentiation 1969-1994, Students, Women
External Link: https://alum-mit-edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/slice/tech-reflection-womens-crew-1974