One of Cal’s all-time great javelin throwers … won NCAA championships in the event in both 1940 and ’41 … he set the school and Edwards Stadium record with a throw of 227-11 in 1941, and later enjoyed an outstanding amateur career with the Olympic Club … won national AAU championships in 1943 and ’44, and placed sixth in the 1948 London Olympics after finishing first in the U.S. Olympic Trials in Evanston, Ill … a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, he once served as Division Director of the Atomic Energy Commission and earned a Ph.D. in engineering from North Carolina State … served as an assistant professor on Cal’s engineering faculty in the 1950s.
