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Coxswain in 1966 for the Kent School, Connecticut, Henley Crew.

Thomas Edward Stockley rowed number 5 for the Jesus College 1944 Lent Crew. He was born on 16 April 1924 in Lincoln and attended Lincoln School from 1932 to 1942. He came to Jesus College where he studied Natural Science from 1942 to 1949 and went on to become a family doctor.

Rowed number 6 for the Jesus College 1944 Lent Crew.

Allen Howard Stowe, 76, of Vero Beach, Fla., and Normandy Beach, N.J., died Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, in Vero Beach from complications related to pancreatic cancer. A celebratory memorial service will be held on Friday, Oct. 4, at 3:30 p.m. in Rollins Chapel at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Mr. Stowe (a.k.a. Tuff) was born July 31, 1937, in Oak Park, Ill., to William P. and Darleen A. Stowe. Mr. Stowe (a.k.a. Alio) was a graduate of The Kent School, Class of 1956; Dartmouth College, Class of 1960; The Amos Tuck Business School, Class of 1961, and The University of Virginia Law School, Class of 1964. He used this educational foundation to practice law, establish and manage companies, and to successfully make his way in the world. However, in his own words, his most direct purpose was "to care for his loved ones in the best possible way while enjoying life responsibly." By all accounts, he achieved this goal. Mr. Stowe (a.k.a. Tuffy) was renowned for his unique ability to seamlessly intertwine disparate groups of people, whether they were from Bronxville, Ridgewood, Princeton, Hanover, Normandy or Vero Beach into a cohesive band of revelers.

The U.S. rowing community has received sad news that one of the great American rowing Olympians, William ‘Bill’ Stowe passed away in his home on 8 February, at an age of 75. Stowe was born in 1940 in Oak Park, Illinois, and was raised in Bronxville, New York. When he attended Kent School in Connecticut, he took up rowing under the late Hart Perry. Coming to Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in 1959, Stowe was made captain and was placed in the stroke seat in the freshman crew that was undefeated that year.

Todd Kennett, Spirit of ’57 Director of Rowing at Cornell and head coach, writes: ‘[In 1959] they were undefeated and won the IRA. At one point in the IRA they were going for the course record and were said to have been 6-7 lengths ahead of second place. Bill had great boat moving ability, but he had a little bit of a wild side that landed him in a bit of trouble which kept him from rowing his sophomore year. When he returned his junior year, Coach Sanford saw his racing brilliance as well and placed him in the stroke seat too. Bill would lead the varsity for the next two years from the stroke seat, placing second at the IRA his junior year, and winning the IRA his senior year.’

After graduating from Cornell, Stowe joined the U.S. Navy and was deployed to Vietnam, where he rowed at the Club Nautique in Saigon. Back from Vietnam as a lieutenant, Stowe was stationed in Philadelphia, where he joined Vesper Boat Club. According to an article, penned by Ed Moran on USRowing’s website, Stowe had been invited to Vesper by Jack Kelly, Jr., ‘Kell’, who was putting together an eight for the 1964 Olympic Trials. The Vesper oarsmen at the time were a tough crowd, but Stowe took the stroke seat and during their first outing gave them a run for their lives. Boyce Budd, who was in the boat for the trials, told Moran: ‘Bill stroked this group that he had never rowed with before as naturally as he had done it for a year and a half. And it was fast. We went across the line and Emory Clark was behind me and I turned around and looked at him and Clark said, “That was the roughest (blanking) row I’ve ever been through”.’

The rest is Olympic rowing history: the Vesper boat, with Stowe in the stroke seat, took the Olympic gold medal in the eights at the 1964 Games in Tokyo.

All Together - coverIn 2005, Stowe published All Together: The Formidable Journey to the Gold with the 1964 Olympic Crew, his entertaining account of the 1964 rowing season.

After the Olympic row, Stowe turned to coaching and was Columbia University coach between 1967 and 1971, and then helped the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to start a rowing programme. For the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games, he worked as the ABC television commentator.

In 2011, Bill Stowe received the Jack Kelly Award, ‘which recognizes superior achievements in rowing, service to amateur athletics, and success in their chosen profession, thereby serving as an inspiration to American rowers.’

Glenn Merry, USRowing Chief Executive Officer, told Ed Moran, ‘Bill Stowe is a man I admire. He was a leader in rowing, a mythical figure from the stroke seat of the Great Eight, someone who truly embodied the best our sport is. His involvement at every facet, from Dad Vail to the NRF to USRowing, itself, reflected how deeply he lived in the sport. We have lost an important figure in rowing and he will be missed.’

Arthur Goodwin Stubbs was born on 10 January 1871 at Nottingham, attended school at Haileybury, and came up to Jesus College in 1889.

He was the elder son of Arthur Stubbs, of Sherwood Rise, Nottingham, and was educated at Haileybury and Jesus College, Cambridge. He contrived to turn his interest in botany to practical account by going into business as a nursery gardener. He married in 1895, and had one daughter, two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Stubbs was captain of his school and college cricket teams and a first class lawn tennis player of Wimbledon standard; he was also proficient at hockey, golf and billiards. In contrast to his athletic prowess he was a chess expert of international reputation, and contributed over 2,000 chess problems to various newspapers. This, however, did not exhaust his versatility, for Stubbs was gifted with a high degree of artistic talent, and was awarded the Grenfell Medal (silver and bronze) for about 20 years in succession by the Royal Horticultural Society for his watercolour paintings of flowers.

To his other interests and pursuits Stubbs added an enthusiasm for conchology, and his exquisite paintings of shells used to form one of the most popular exhibits at annual meetings of the Conchological Society. The more variable species of Helicidae particularly attracted him, and in the portrayal of their numerous mutations of colour and markings his delicate artistry found its most felicitous expression. His Illustrated Index of British Freshwater Shells was published by Taylor Brothers of Leeds in 1907, but some of the reproductions fail to do full justice to the accuracy of the original drawings. Stubbs was celebrated for his skill in cleaning even the most intractable shells, and his specimens never failed to evoke the admiration and envy of less accomplished conchologists. He had a pamphlet printed in 1900 for private circulation, entitled “Hints on cleaning the smaller transparent species of British Land Mollusca”.

Stubbs’ collection and paintings of shells are now in the possession of Mr. David A. Richardson, who has kindly supplied most of the above particulars of his grandfather’s life.

He died on 23 February 1950.