We scanned face after face in breathless anticipation until just ahead of her, through the excited crowd, a ripple of recognition shot through the lines and we cheered as we never had before. For a while, the " screech tunnel" fell silent. Kathrine is a very prominent first name for females (828 out of 4276, Top 19) but an unusual last name for all people. But there was something different about that Marathon Day-like a spark down a wire, the word spread to all of us lining the route that a woman was running the course. As I had done every spring since I arrived on campus, I went out to cheer the runners.
By far none this is my favorite recollection of how the crowd reacted to Bobbi being in the race from Diana Chapman Walsh, who later went on to be the President of Wellesley College herself, saying,
Through sheer amazement, Bobbi was shortly greeted with encouragement and support from her fellow male racers, enough so that she was able to remove her sweatshirt and run comfortably.
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