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Dan Ayrault poses for picture in his Stanford attire in 1956, the year he won the first of his two rowing gold medals. Ayrault was born in California, attended Stanford (where he captained the crew team) and earned his master’s degree from Harvard, but he spent part of his youth in Tacoma attending Lowell Elementary and Jason Leigh Junior High schools. His coxed pair team trained on American Lake in advance of the ‘56 Olympics. The team won gold in Melbourne. In 1960 at the Rome Olympics, rowing in a coxless four with Tacoma’s John Sayre, Ayrault won his second gold medal. He later taught and served as headmaster at Seattle’s Lakeside School where his students included Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who went on to found Microsoft.Lexicon
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