The Miracle 9 - 1936 Olympic Men's Rowing Team
The Miracle 9 - 1936 Olympic Men's Rowing Team
Before the boys of Miracel on Ice, there was another miracle team, and they were the 1936 NCAA Rowing Team of the Washington Huskies.
This group of boys are among the greatest underdog champions in American history because of their unique and inspiring story. They literally came from nowhere to beat all the best rowing M8 crews in the country and later the world. They were an ordinary group of college kids from the rural North West, during the Great Depression. They had never left the state of Washington before competing for the Huskies. Their story takes place during a time in history when when the country needed heroes and much like the great Jesse Owens, these heroes inspired a nation.
The first test for this crew came in April on Lake Washington. The freshmen and JV won their races easily, and the varsity finished the sweep with a three length victory over California, the defending champions. Two months later all three crews were back in Poughkeepsie and swept that race too. The win completed the first ever sweep of the Poughkeepsie by a west coast crew - and was the first ever varsity win for Coach Ulbrickson.
From Poughkeepsie the men traveled to Princeton New Jersey for the Olympic trials. On July 5th they met a polished Pennsylvania Club Crew, New York Club Crew, and Ky Ebright's California crew for the right to represent the country in the Olympics. Ulbrickson's now practiced strategy of Keep the stroke down and then mow 'em down in the finishing sprints worked again to another thrilling victory.
The men stayed at the New York Athletic Club rowing quarters on Travers Island north of New York until departing with the entire Olympic Team for Hamburg aboard the S.S. Manhattan. Once in Germany, the team stayed near Lake Grunau, the site of the Olympic competition, at Koepenik. The team worked out twice a day on the lake, and dined at night with all of their competitors in the same mess hall. They also participated in the Opening Ceremonies, marching before Hitler and 120,000 frantic German fans, and attended some of the games.
The flag dropped and the race began to the sound of throngs of cheering crowds. Italy and England moved up with Germany closing in. Italy and Germany vied for the lead with England in the mix. With about 500 meters left in the race the Huskies crew would sprint to pass the Italians and Germans. The confidence of the Americans had remained strong; in every race in 1936, this crew had fallen behind, only to gain it back. The crowds were chanting Deutsch-land, Deutsch-land, Deutsch-land, and yet it was in that last 200 meters that the United States went from third to first, crossing the line about ten feet in front of Italy, with Germany third.
The exhausted crew rowed in front of the grandstand, then to the dock, where a wreath was placed over the head of each oarsman and the coxswain. There were no interviews. The men stayed in their quarters that night. The next day they received their medals in the Olympic stadium; after the games were over, they went home various ways, some choosing to travel Europe, others going straight home.
Historically speaking, the 1936 Washington crew would have been memorable without the Olympic victory. They completed their season as undefeated National Champions – and then - World and Olympic champions. And forever will they hold that honor.
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Rowing for Gold from The Boys of '36
The US Men's rowing team had a terrible start in the Olympic race. With the crowd cheering ‘’Deutschland,’’ the boys from Washington were on the outside of the course and struggled against the wind and chop with every stroke. Suddenly, in the last thousand meters, Don Hume picked up the pace and the boys accelerated to victory! The Boys of '36 premieres August 2 at 9/8c on PBS.
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New documentary profiles 1936 U.S. Olympic rowers
Eighty years ago, 400 Americans took part in the 1936 Olympiad in Berlin. But it was a group of nine rowers from the Pacific Northwest that took the nation by storm. A new PBS documentary -- inspired by the bestselling book, The Boys in the Boat -- tells the tale of the incredible University of Washington team that triumphed against all odds in Nazi Germany. The American Experience special, The Boys of '36, airs Tuesday on PBS. Director and producer Margaret Grossi joins CBS This Morning: Saturday to discuss the film.
Poughkeepsie Regatta (1934)
Full title reads: POUGHKEEPSIE REGATTA - California win great rowing race on Hudson River.
Poughkeepsie, River Hudson nr New York, United States of America (USA).
Start of a rowing race at Poughkeepsie Regatta - eighths. Crowds watching. Boats racing, crowds supporting their teams. Barges filled with people are seen on the river watching the race. Some nice air shots clearly showing positions of the boats. Item abruptly ends. Title states that California team wins.
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American Olympians of 1936 welcomed on arrival of their ship at Chelsea Piers in New York harbor
American Olympic Team welcomed upon arrival in New York Harbor aboard a Steamship. A New York City fireboat creates plumes of water in welcome.. A boat carrying the New York City Police Department Band passes with band playing in the bow. A floral arrangement reads 'Welcome Olympians. ' Various American Olympic heroes are seen. Jesse Owens and other African American members of the team..New York officials greet them. Location: New York City Harbor. Date: 1936.
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National Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta between Washington's Pacific Coast Champions and Yale's Shell at Long Beach, California.
National Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta between Pacific Coast Champions and Yale's Shell at Long Beach, California. Group of participants row boats. Washington 8 wins four cornered duel for National Shell title. The Pacific Coast Champions cross the line six feet ahead of Yale's Shell. They set fast time of 6 minutes 38.8seconds for the 2000 meter course. Location: California United States. Date: July 10, 1933.
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The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown -- Official Book Trailer
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The Boys in the Boat celebrates the 1936 U.S. men's Olympic eight-oar rowing team—nine working class boys who stormed the rowing world, transformed the sport, and galvanized the attention of millions of Americans.
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Isaac Witkin
Isaac Witkin, internationally renowned modern sculptor, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on 10 May 1936, and he died 23 April 2006. Witkin entered Saint Martin's School of Art in London in 1957. Studying under Sir Anthony Caro and alongside other luminaries in training such as Phillip King, William G. Tucker, David Annesley and Michael Bolus, Witkin learned and helped create a new style of sculpture that led to their being called the New Generation of sculptors when their innovating abstract forms of modern sculpture reached and changed the art world. Witkin's work, abstract works of usually brightly coloured fibreglass or wood, in particular was noted for its witty, Pop-Art look.
After graduating from Saint Martin's in 1960, Witkin was an apprentice of Henry Moore until 1963. Witkin's work was well received in his first solo show at Rowan Gallery, London and in an important 1964 show at Whitechapel Gallery, also in London, where Witkin and his fellow Saint Martin's New Generation sculptors made their big entry into the English art world. In 1965 his work received a first prize in the Paris Biennale. His piece, Nagas, was included in the seminal 1966 exhibit, Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum in New York representing the British influence on the New Art anchored by Anthony Caro.
Witkin then moved from pupil to teacher, teaching at Saint Martin's for two years. He then moved to the United States. At Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, Witkin worked with a community of artists known as the Green Mountain boys who either taught at the school or were part of the local arts community, including notables such as painter Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Poons, Paul Feeley and Jules Olitski and art critic Clement Greenberg.
Witkin's works at this time were in the style of formalist abstractions, moving from the fiberglass and wood of his earlier works to heavy welded steel industrial structures with complex Cubist compositions. These were well received in America, notably during a 1966 show at the Jewish Museum, in New York City, and various other showings in that city thereafter. In 1978 Witkin moved to New Jersey, becoming associated with the Johnson Atelier, Princeton, New Jersey, where he was an artist in residence.
During this time Witkin developed the style which would form the remainder of his works. Here he discovered a process of pouring molten bronze into wet sand on the ground to create organic appearing forms. By assembling these forms he engaged in ...creating language out of the behavioural flow of metal, wresting order from chaos as he is quoted as describing the process in his obituary at The Times Online website. The remainder of his works were primarily in bronze, both poured and then cast, coloured by chemicals to have a variety of patinas. However some later work was done also done in stone though in the same style as the poured bronzes.
Witkin subsequently taught at the Parsons School of Design, New York, New York, and the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Burlington County College, Pemberton, New Jersey. He also was honoured as a Member of the National Academy, New York, NY and as a Member, Royal Society of British Sculptors. During his career Witkin also received the following awards: State of New Jersey Art Achievement Award, Burlington County College Foundation; Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant; New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant and in 1981 a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Through his work Witkin became an acquaintance of fellow sculptor and patron of the arts J. Seward Johnson, Jr., of the Johnson and Johnsons. This friendship allowed Witkin to persuade Johnson to buy and transform the abandoned New Jersey Fairgrounds into what became the Grounds for Sculpture Park, a 35-acre (140,000 m2) open air display of sculptures in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. Several of Witkin's works are among the Grounds permanent collections. Witkins work is also included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, the Centre for Modern Art, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Fine Arts Museum, University of Sydney, Australia; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Laumier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO; Tate Gallery, London; and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. His work is also displayed on his family's website, isaacwitkin.com.
Isaac Witkin died 23 April 2006 of a heart attack at his home in Pemberton, New Jersey. He is survived by his two daughters, his sizeable body of work, and the artists it has inspired.
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The Washington team wins the finals of a rowing competition and qualifies for the Olympics in the United States.
The Washington team wins the finals at a rowing championship in the United States. Teams compete at a rowing competition finals. The team from Washington wins the finals and manages to qualify for the Olympics. The winning team throws a member of the team in a lake. Location: United States. Date: July 6, 1936.
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Injustice at Home: Looking Like the Enemy
During WWII, almost the entire population of Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated. Their only crime was looking like the enemy. Featuring the inspiring stories of people in Spokane, Yakima, and Bainbridge Island Washington, the 1 hour documentary focuses on Japanese Americans during WWII, both inside and outside the evacuation zone; chronicling their struggles and perseverance.
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Poughkeepsie HS Boys Crew team at West Point doing the Wave
The Poughkeepsie High School Boys 8 team had just won the title and were relaxing in the boat waiting for the dock to clear. They started doing the Wave in the boat to have some fun.
Western Reads 2014-15 - Interview with Daniel James Brown
Western Reads 2014-15 Selection: The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown's non-fiction book details the story of the University of Washington crew team that won gold during the 1936 Olympics. The sons of dairy farmers, loggers, and fishermen, most had never rowed a day in their life and many were the first in their families to go to college. Suffice it to say, many of the boys couldn’t have attended and completed college without being on the crew team. Yet, this rag tag group went on to beat the privileged East Coast crews and the elite British clubs at Cambridge and Oxford. In the final race, they stunned the World by winning gold as Hitler looked on. Commentators suggested that the boys’ victory demonstrated, finally, that merit outweighed birthright; the boys also showed the U.S. the power of pulling together and the hope that the Nazis would not prevail. In short, the crew team personified grit, determination, and optimism—qualities that serve anyone well.
Brown grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended the University of California at Berkeley.
He taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford before becoming a technical writer and editor, first in Silicon Valley and later at Microsoft. He now writes narrative nonfiction books full time. His primary interest as a writer is in bringing compelling historical events to life as vividly and accurately as he can.
He lives in the country outside of Seattle, Washington with his wife, two daughters, and an assortment of cats, dogs, chickens, and honeybees. When he is not writing, he is likely to be birding, gardening, fly fishing, reading American history, or chasing bears away from the bee hives.
Western Reads serves Western Washington University's mission of promoting Engaged Excellence by bringing together teaching, scholarship, and community service in a liberal arts, student-centered context.
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Universal News, Volume 5, Release 196, Stories #1-9. November 9, 1933
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Collection UN: MCA/Universal Pictures Collection, 1929 - 1967
Scope & Content: This series consists of the newsreel stories released by Universal Pictures; the last theatrical newsreel released in the United States. One of five major U.S. newsreels, Universal Newsreel was released in theaters from 1929 to 1967. It consisted of edited stories released twice weekly as issues arranged in annual volumes, averaging ten minutes per issue initially and six or seven minutes in later years with each newsreel containing several stories. In 1978, a fire destoyed nitrate motion picture film of some newsreels (or issues) including most of volumes 14 through 17. Universal disposed of many separate music and narrative soundtracks before donating the Library to the National Archives. The textual records include narration scripts, cameramen's notes, shot lists, release sheets, and materials that documented some of the events covered by the photographers such as sporting event programs, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles.
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Tim Wise: Higher Education's Urgent Imperative to Become Antiracist
Tim Wise PCCTimothy Jacob Wise is an American anti-racism activist and writer and is among the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the nation. He has trained teachers, corporate employees, non-profit organizations and law enforcement officers in methods for addressing and dismantling racism in their institutions.
In May 2019, over 200 PCC community members attended and presented at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE). As a follow up to the critical learning and community engagement NCORE provided, PCC reconvened NCORE participants and the greater PCC community for a conversation with antiracism author and scholar, Tim Wise.
Western Reads 2014-15 - Presentation by Daniel James Brown
Western Reads 2014-15 Selection: The Boys in the Boat
Author Daniel James Brown Discussed His Book
‘The Boys in the Boat’ Oct. 22, 2014
at Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Daniel James Brown, author of “The Boys in the Boat,” presented the story behind his most recent book at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 at the Viking Union Multi-purpose Room on the Western Washington University Campus.
“The Boys in the Boat” is this year’s Western Reads selection, a campus-wide reading program designed to promote intellectual engagement, community and conversation among new students. A complimentary copy of the book is given to incoming freshman and transfer students at Western.
“The Boys in the Boat” shares an incredible story of grit and persistence as the University of Washington’s 1936 crew team overcomes incredible odds on its quest for an Olympic gold medal in Berlin, Germany during Hitler’s rise to power.
The team defeated the elite teams in the United States and went on to the Olympics where they bested the Italian, English, and German crews. The story details the journey these nine working-class young men took to row their way to Olympic gold, drawing on the boys’ journals and memories.
Before writing narrative non-fiction books, Brown taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford University. He then became a technical writer and editor in Silicon Valley and later at Microsoft. Brown now writes narrative non-fiction books full-time and lives outside of Seattle.
For more information on the presentation by Daniel James Brown or the Western Reads program, contact Dawn Dietrich at Western.Reads@wwu.edu.
Western Reads serves Western Washington University's mission of promoting Engaged Excellence by bringing together teaching, scholarship, and community service in a liberal arts, student-centered context.
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A Brief History of the American Mafia
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Mr. Beat gives a brief history of the American Mafia, also known as La Cosa Nostra, or simply The Mob. One book used for the research of this video was Gotti's Rules, by George Anastasia. To purchase, click here:
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I’m sure you’re already aware of the Mafia, thanks to The Godfather or Martin Scorsese films. But I hate to break this to you, The Godfather and Martin Scorsese films aren’t exactly all that historical. So first of all, the media and law enforcement first used that term Mafia, to describe criminal groups in Sicily. You know, the Mediterranean island in Southern Italy. Or the rock that Italy is kicking. Anyway, Giuseppe Esposito, the first known Sicilian Mafia member to move to the United States, fled to New York City after killing a bunch of politicians and wealthy landowners back in Sicily. Esposito ended up in New Orleans, where, in 1881, detective David Hennessey caught him and sent him back to Italy. By this time, the Sicilian Mafia spread throughout both New Orleans and New York City. They wanted revenge. On October 15, 1890, they found Hennessey, now the superintendent and chief of police, and murdered him, execution style. In response, New Orleans police arrested hundreds of Sicilians, eventually accusing 19 for Hennessey’s murder. However, after a bunch of acquittals and mistrials and rumours the jury had been bribed, an angry mob formed outside the prison. On March 14, 1891, they broke into the prison, dragging out the indicted Sicilian men and killing 11 of them. These killings are perhaps the largest known mass lynching in American history.
After the lynchings, the term “Mafia” now entered the American national dialogue. More Americans had anti-Italian feelings, calling for more restrictions to prevent Italians from immigrating to the country. Oh yeah, and the whole Italian mob stereotype was born.
So how did the Sicilian Mafia evolve into the American Mafia? Well, from the 1890s to the 1920s, the rise and fall of various gangs would lead to their organization. And yes, many of these gangs attracted young, poor, Italian men with ties to Sicily. However, it’s important to point out that not all of these gangs were Italian. For example, the Five Points Gang was mainly made up of Irish Americans. Although, its leader, Paul Kelly, was Italian. Well that’s not a very Italian sounding name, Mr. Beat. Yeah, his real name was Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli. He changed his name so it sounded more Irish. The big rival gang to the Five Points Gang was the Eastman Gang, who were mostly Jewish. Other gangs in the mix in New York City in the early 20th century were the Cherry Hill Gang, White Hand Gang, and the Yakey Yakes. Many of these gangs participated in an extortion racket known as The Black Hand. The name came from gang tactics like sending a letter to someone threatening to kill them or kidnap a loved one unless she or he paid a specified amount of money. These letters often were signed with a hand held up as a gesture of warning, which was usually imprinted with black ink.
Communist China's insulting flag issue continued
Chinese students in Nagano, and Tokyo, Japan, under the direction of their overlords in Beijing, and fear for the safety of their families in China, protest or support in Japan waiving China's blood soaked flag. Such a disrespectful demonstration did not gain them support among the people of Japan, but further decayed the Japanese perception of the communist in China.
Then under the same orders from the communist overlords in Beijing, Chinese students on the campus of Duke University in North Carolina, United States, once again displayed their blood soaked flag in a demonstration. When Americans see that flag, they see red alright, but also white and blue. Who ever is responsible to public relations in Beijing should be sent to a gulag as they have been a failure. The Olympic torch traveled the world this year among such protest, not even seen for Hitler's 1936 Olympics are the Soviet Union's Olympics after their invasion of Afghanistan. In the history of the Olympic torch, no country has fostered so much hatred and protest.
What is Beijing's reaction to this? Further displays of disrespect by their students in host foreign nations.
Also CBS News in the United States reported the issue where China is harshly treating a Chinese student at Duke University. CBS reported that the girl Grace Wang, or Wang Qianyuan private information has been plastered on the Internet. Information only known to the government in Beijing. Plus her mother is in hiding for fear of the Chinese government. Her father a member of the communist party was forced to write a letter denouncing his own daughter.