I have written of Bowerman, this class, and famous athletes who trained there:

in Steve, about what happened between Steve Prefontaine and me the day he won the 1972 Olympic Trials 5,000m: http://www.trackerati.com/2015/05/steve.html

and in:

A Ride for Robert, which interweaves several stories, one of which focuses more fully on my relationship with Bowerman and how I came to represent the University of Oregon in a cross country race (at the juniorjuniorjuniorvarsity level) in the fall of '71.

One benefit of being in Bowerman's class was people's general reluctance to take him on about administrative details.

He knew them well enough, thank you; his abilities as an administrator don't fully get the attention or credit they deserve.

His roles as head coach of the Oregon and Olympic teams - especially in Munich during the terrorist attack - as well as administrator of the 1968 High Altitude Training Camp at California's Echo Summit, show the extent to which the US amateur powers came to rely on Bowerman at the highest administrative levels, even if they differed philosophically.

So it was that we got to continue running for PE credit after the fall class was over.

"Just register under varsity track and I'll sign for it," Bowerman said, while trying to contain his delight that so many of us wanted to continue running.

This is how I came to have varsity track in my University of Oregon transcript - a status not well-supported by my beginner's times!