Moravec Prepares for Heavy Season; Insurance Building Goes Up Fast as Football Captain Shoulders Concrete

Varsity football captain Vincent P. Moravee '49 has found a bandy summer substitute for tackling dummies in the form of concrete sections. He is currently holdlug down a construction job from 8 to 4:30 five days a week on the John Hancock Life Insurance Company building project in downtown Boston.

He handles the heavy cement sections that will reinforce steel girders on the first five floors. Twenty-four stories in all, the edifice has been advertised as "the tallest building in New England." It will take two and a half years to complete.

"But I'm not going to be around after we get through with the first couple of floors," said Moravec yesterday. A few more weeks of balancing masonry on a scaffold is going to make relaxing with the heaviest book seem easy in the fall he predicted.

"Don't Get Me Wrong"

"Don't get me wrong," he went on; "It's not tougher than football practice." He made it clear that money as well as muscle-building accounted for his entry into the building trades.

Last June he acquired family responsibilities with a marriage to Miss Janice Howe from his home in West Bridgewater, Pa. She was a co-ed at Beaver High School there when he was playing an all-state fullback for the Beaver eleven.

Two--Count 'Em--Two Moravecs

Hence Moravec will be moving out of the Varsity Club next fall, In all likelihood there will be two Moravecs working out on Soldiers Field next year since his brother Ed has been accepted in the class of '51.

Ed was all Western Pennsylvania selection for tackle this year following his elder brother's Beaver tracks.