Th o m a s E . Pollock I I I
“four-with-cox” boat, which placed seventh, and rowed in the winning boat in the 1965 World Championship in Lucerne, Switzerland. He continued his education, graduating from UC–Berkeley’s law school in 1969, and began practicing law at Cravath, Swain & Moore in New York City.
Tom Pollock was a rower and a swimmer for four years at Andover. He captained PA’s nascent rowing team in 1961 under the tutelage of Coach Bill Brown ’34, who founded Andover’s crew program in 1956. Pollock’s leadership continued outside the shell in his role as senior class president. Of note: Pollock did not officially run for the office, but was a write-in candidate. A plan sketched at breakfast the morning of the elections led to his victory. (His vice president —classmate and fellow Athletics Hall of Honor inductee Paul Kalkstein—also was a write-in candidate.)
Pollock was an active Alumni Admissions Representative for Andover for two decades, and his children, Heidi ’86 and Tom IV ’88, are PA graduates. He continues to write and practice law and most recently coauthored the novel, The Rising: Journeys in the Wake of Global Warming. Several of Pollock’s classmates and the late Coach Brown wrote: “Tom Pollock represents the very best of Andover leadership, athleticism, and courage. It would be hard to imagine anyone more deserving of membership in the Hall of Honor.”
Pollock continued his academic and rowing careers at Harvard and later was inducted into the Harvard Varsity Club Hall of Fame along with the entire 1965 Varsity Men’s Heavyweight Crew (the first ever full-team induction). While at Harvard he competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as a member of the U.S. 1961 crew team; Pollock is fourth from left.
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