Description

Group photograph of MIT coaching staff standing on a piledriver during construction of the DuPont Athletic Center. Stamp on verso reads "Feb 5 - 1958".

Original Captions: "Herald - Traveler", "educ", "CC-W32".

Original Caption: "Pixies On The Piledriver---M.I.T.'s coaching staff lends a hand as construction starts on the million-dollar DuPont Athletic Center there this week. In the driver's seat is Athletic Director Richard L. Balch. Clockwise (from bottom left) are swimming coach Gordon Smith, rowing coach Frank DuBois, asst. track coach Arthur Farnham, hockey coach Ben Martin, soccer and diving coach Charles Batterman, asst. sailing coach Gerald Reed, baseball coach Scotty Whitelaw, basketball coach John Burke and sailing coach Jack Wood (bending over). The building, adjoining M.I.T.'s Armory on Mass. Ave., will be completed in January, '59."