Woman to Apply For Coaching Job Vacated by Gambril

A woman swim coach at Harvard? It may happen according to Harold Kaese in yesterday's Boston Globe. Mrs. Charles G. Stephanos of Swampscott apparently is applying for the job that will be vacated when Don Gambril leaves Harvard for Alabama.

Harvard athletic director, Robert B. Watson, couldn't comment on the article. "I read it," he said last night, "and thought it was highly amusing. But I haven't received an application from her yet. I haven't had a real chance to look at the other applications yet either. We have to find a basketball coach first."

Kaese extolled the qualifications of Mrs. Stephanos, who has coached on a high school level for twenty years and is a good swimmer herself. Crimson swimmer Dave Brumwell feels differently.

"I thought that article sucked," Brumwell said yesterday. "It was bad publicity for Harvard. She doesn't have the qualifications at all. She's never had a national calibre swimmer, whereas most of the other coaches who applied have."

Brumwell said that he was not against her because she's a woman, but because she isn't as qualified as the other applicants.

Maybe Harvard will have a woman swim coach some day, but if it's up to Brumwell, it won't be Virginia Stephanos.