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David Axelrod, AB’76
A color portrait of David Axelrod over a blue tinted archival image of the Bartlett Gymnasium swimming pool.
University News
Fall/25
How I passed the swim test
By David Axelrod, AB’76

An excerpt from a speech to the Class of 2025.

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