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The Vesper Boat Club is an amateur rowing club located at #10 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1865, Vesper's stated goal is "to produce Olympic champions."

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1964: A Motley Crew’s Olympic Quest John B. Kelly Jr. had a dream. For 60 years, only college crews had represented the United States at the Olympics in the eight-oared boat. Why couldn’t the Vesper Boat Club trounce those kids and be the ones to go to Tokyo for the 1964 Olympics?