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Theodore B. Thorndike In his senior year, Ted Thorndike was captain of the varsity hockey and baseball teams. During the 1969 Christmas holidays, the hockey team entered the Lawrenceville School Invitational Hockey Tournament. Although Andover lost its first game on a disputed penalty shot, the team went on to win the consolation division. In spring 1970, Thorndike’s baseball squad ended the season with a 10–3 record, the best of any Andover nine since 1960. Thorndike matriculated at Harvard, where he played three years of varsity hockey. In 1974 and 1975, he helped 14
Harvard tally a 57–21–2 record and bring home Ivy League titles. In Thorndike’s senior year, the team placed fourth in the NCAA Championships. After graduating from Harvard in 1975 with a BA degree in English, Thorndike became a member of the U.S. National and Olympic hockey teams. At the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, the U.S. team—which included Andover Athletics Hall of Honor inductee Dan Bolduc ’72— finished fifth. After the Olympics, Thorndike moved to Woodstock, Vt., where he worked for a design and construction firm and
coached high school hockey, leading the Woodstock Union High School hockey team to the state championship finals. He also worked in real estate with the Boston firm R.M. Bradley and Thorndike Real Estate. In 1985, following a one-year appointment at Milton Academy, Thorndike began teaching and coaching at St. Sebastian’s School. Tragically, he passed away in 1987 at the age of 34.