Rowing Community, Colleagues, Media Remember Harry Parker
People from around the country spent the hours after Harry Parker's passing last night to submit their thoughts in the form of articles, stories and social media posts. Below, Harvard Athletics has compiled some of the best remembrances of the coach who spent the last 51 years dedicated to Harvard and the sport of rowing.
Harvard Athletics | Bob Scalise, The Nichols Family Director of Athletics
Harvard Mourns Loss of Legendary Crew Coach Harry Parker
"Harry Parker has been one of the nation's iconic coaches and educators. He has touched the lives and has influenced countless Harvard oarsmen over the years. His love of the sport, dedication to the success of his students and devotion to Harvard are evident in all Harry has done. His legacy and impact on our program over the last five decades will remain. We will miss him as a coach, role model, leader and a friend."
Harvard University | President Drew Gilpin Faust
On the Passing of Harry Parker"Harry Parker epitomized the coach as teacher. He saw each of his rowers not just an athlete but as a whole person, a person learning not just how to excel at a sport but how to live a life. Generations of Harvard students will forever remember his formative influence. He was a living legend at Harvard and in the world of rowing, and his legend will long endure."
Boston Globe | John Powers
Harvard Crew Legend Harry Parker Dies of Cancer
"Universally acknowledged as the dean of America's rowing coaches, Parker was renowned not only for his unparalleled longevity but also for his extraordinary success."
Harvard Gazette | Jack Reardon, AB'60, Executive Director, Harvard Aumni Association and Harvard University Athletic Director 1977-1990
Statement on passing of Harry Parker
"Harry was one of Harvard's most illustrious coaches and he may have been the greatest college crew coach of all time. In any chosen profession, there are people who are very good and there are people who are the best. Harry Parker was the best. Harry's rowers revered him. He was a man of few words but those words counted, and he inspired his athletes to do better than they thought possible. There will never be another Harry Parker. I will miss him and Harvard will miss him."
Row2k | Ed Hewitt
Harry Parker has passed; a remembrance, 1935-2013
"There is a reason the whole rowing world refers to Harry as "Harry," by his first name, and not as Coach Parker, or Mr. Parker, or anything else, really. For a man who was known to be hard to know, somehow we all call him by his first name - no more needed to be said. There is only one "Harry." In the rowing world, for the past 50+ years, if someone referenced "Harry," it meant Harry Parker. This was true in the US, overseas, at Henley, and beyond; there aren't many folks who earn that distinction. Royalty, maybe."
Penn Athletics | Mike Lane, Penn Head Coach of Women's Rowing
Penn Mourns Passing of Rowing Legend Harry Parker C'56
"Harry is the ultimate icon in the sport of rowing. When you think of our sport, you think of Harry. It is a tremendous loss for our community; however, his legacy in terms of how he impacted the sport will live on forever."
US Olympic Committee | Scott Blackmun, USOC CEO
USOC statement on the passing of Harry Parker
"Harry Parker's impact on the sport of rowing stretches from the shores of the Charles River to all corners of the globe. Both as an Olympic athlete and coach, he served as an inspiration over multiple decades, and his indelible legacy will be felt for many years to come both at Harvard and throughout the Olympic Movement."
USOC statement on the passing of Harry Parker
"Harry Parker's impact on the sport of rowing stretches from the shores of the Charles River to all corners of the globe. Both as an Olympic athlete and coach, he served as an inspiration over multiple decades, and his indelible legacy will be felt for many years to come both at Harvard and throughout the Olympic Movement."
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