Ex-Diving Champ Becomes Assistant Swimming Coach

Charles Batterman, former National Inter-Collegiate and National AAU diving champion in both the high board and low board, has been appointed an assistant swimming coach, HAA Director Bill Bingham announced last night.

Batterman, a member of the national championship Ohio State swimming teams of 1942 and 1943, was named to the All-American team in 1944, a year in which he won all major springboard fancy diving titles. He received a B.S. degree from Ohio State in 1943 and holds an M.A. from Columbia.

The new coach succeeds Bernard Kelly and will assist head coach Hal Ulen with special attention to diving. He comes to Harvard from Sampson, where he has been director of the swimming program for the past two years.

He was voted the outstanding athlete at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, where he spent the first three years of a swimming career which has included winning appearances in numerous championship meets and teaching at Blandensburg, Md., High School, Columbia Grammar High School in New York, and Ohio State and Sampson, N.Y., College. He also has been field representative for the American Red Cross in the North Atlantic area, teaching first aid and water safety.