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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, 17 November 2012 -- At the annual Harvard-Yale football game, two US Navy F/A-18E Superhornets flew over the stadium at the end of the National Anthem. They were piloted by Lieutenant Danielle Thiriot ’07 and Lieutenant Camille Wilson, a 2001 graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. After completing the flyover, the pilots returned to the stadium at halftime with the Honorable Ray Mabus JD ’75, Secretary of the Navy. They participated in a tribute to all servicemen and women.
Thiriot, a native of Salt Lake City, was a resident of Quincy House and was a member of the Radcliffe rowing team (which has more details here). She received her initial military training in the Naval ROTC unit at MIT and in 2007 received the Harvard ROTC Aviation Award from the Harvard ROTC Alumni Fund. She was commissioned as an Ensign in the US Navy on June 6, 2007, in Harvard Yard and attended the Naval Aviation Pre-flight Indoctrination in Pensacola, Fla.
Otherwise, the 129th Harvard-Yale game was not as exciting as the last such game before ROTC was effectively barred from Harvard in 1969 until its return in 2011.
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