Unwavering Love

Daniel James Brown’s book The Boys in the Boat is the story of the University of Washington’s 1936 Olympic victory in rowing and of Joe Rantz in particular, the unlikeliest boy in the boat. Desperately poor and abandoned by his father, a bright spot was his true love, Joyce. After winning the gold medal in Berlin, he returned and married her. She made a vow that “come what may, she would make sure he never went through anything like it again, would never again be abandoned, would always have ...