A new ski coach and a new 150 pound freshman crew coach took up their clipboards this week with the official start of the Harvard Athletic Program.

They are Donald Kennedy '52, 4GSAS, who succeeds Graham Taylor as varsity and freshman ski coach; and Joseph Brown '53 1D, former three-year bow oarsman on the varsity 150 pound crew, who will instruct the Yardling light-weights.

Kennedy, who skied for Harvard during his first three years in college, specializes in downhill and slalom. He will coach for one year only. Going into coaching for the first time, he credited his predecessor, Graham Taylor, with putting the team on its most solid footing since before the war.

This is also Brown's first coaching job. His appointment marks the first time since the retirement of Bert Haines, regular varsity 150 coach until 1952, that the burden of teaching both freshman and varsity lightweights has been taken off the shoulders of a single graduate student.

For the next two months, practice for Kennedy will consist mostly of getting to know his squad and their specialties. Brown is now engaged in beginning the regular fall 150 pound practice, and intends to have his crews out on the river before cold weather sets in.