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Walker, Thomas Dixon 'Tote', Coach for Kent School Boat Club
c 1934 - 1960

While Kent has had five headmasters since 1906, KSBC has had only four coaches, including Father Sill, "Tote" Walker 19, W. Hartwell "Hart" Perry and Eric Houston80. Tote’ Walker, who “might have been mistaken for one of the Marx Brothers.” Rinehart states. But despite Walker’s rough appearance, he was a true gentleman, who believed that ‘winning was enough’ and therefore told his crews to not win with more than two boat lengths. (Though, a couple of exceptions are known: at one time, when Walker was verbally insulted by another crew’s coach, he allowed the Kent boat to totally whip the other boat in the race.)
In the beginning of the 1960s, Walker took an assistant coach under his wings, William Hartwell Perry Jr., who had coached in Honolulu while stationed there with the Coast Guard. H