University of California Athletics

A standout member of the Cal track team in the 1940s … PCC Champion in the pole vault in 1941 … also went on to become the National Collegiate Champion that year … finished second in the NCAAs in 1940 … a member of the 1948 Olympic team, winning the gold medal in the pole vault … won the indoor national pole vault crown in 1947 … ranked No. 1 in the world in the pole vault in 1947-48 … served as a U.S. Army pilot during World War II … also worked as the Assistant Dean of the Harvard Business School.