Champion Speed Skater of the World

He was christened JOHN AMOS SHEA and folks in his home town of Lake Placidbegan to pick him for a future champion when he whizzed around the ice track as ayoungster. Speed skates and skating races had come to be a real part of JACK SHEA'S lifewhen he won a junior title at the age of IS and another at 14. The years went on and JACK'S stride lengthened as his flying skates added medals and cups to the amazing collection fondly preserved by his mother and father. When he came to Dartmouth a year agolast fall, at the age of 20, he had earned the right to be called speed skating champion ofNorth America. In his first year of college racing he became intercollegiate champion.Now his sturdy legs have carried him to the highest honors of all: the fastest skater inthe world.

JACK was selected by the U. S. Olympic team to carry the flag in the openingparade of the winter games. And he was chosen by the several hundred competingathletes of all nations to take the oath of amateurism in their behalf.

The 500-meter race teas the first event of the 10-day program. JACK tied the world'srecord and won the race he had dreamed about since boyhood.

Then the glory of that achievement was overshadowed by a greater one. Skating ata grueling pace in the 1500-meter race he sprinted vnth the heart and will of a thoroughbred to come home the winner—a double Olympic winner!

And a thoroughbred he has been in victory, as he was in winning it. Dartmouthmay well be proud of him and join her congratulations to the thousands he has received.