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By ART CARTER
Syndicated Columnist
This article is the second in three-part series.
Though some have found the going rough
after their Olympic glory, a number of former
black Olympians have "made it" in other
endeavors following their athletic careers.
One of them is Herbert Paul Douglas Jr.,
known to the track and field crowd as Herb
Douglas. Douglas, who lives Philadelphia, has
risen to the vice presidency of Schieffelin & Co.
of New York and has been affiliated with the
importer of Scotch and wines for more than 20
years.
He was one of the first post-World W ar II
Olympic medal winners when he won a bron/e
medal in the long jump in L ondon in 1948. One
of his teammates was the astounding Harrison
Dillard, who won two gold medals in 1948 and
two in 1952, and was the one-time holder of 11
American, Olympic and world records.
Douglas' feats that earned him an Olympic
berth began in junior high school in Pittsburgh,
where he earned letters in basketball, track and
In 1936, the year Jesse Owens earned the
"fastest human" gold medal in the 100 meters,
Douglas was Pittsburgh's 75-\ard dash champion.
He was inspired by Owens, who later met
. him, and in subsequent years they became close
friends.
In recent years, Douglas has been instrumental
in keeping a liaison with former black Olympic
stars. All of them, regardless of the years in
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In recent months, Douglas has organized the
International Amateur Athletic Association
that is designed to keep alive the competitive
spirit of the late Jesse Owens. He, too, has
managed to maintain a successful career in the
private sector, which he attributes to his success
in the Olympics.
Andrew W. Stanfield, a former gold
medalist, is executive director of the Union
Township Community Action Organization,
headquartered at the Myra t. Kearse Center,
Vaux Hall, N.J. To Olympic followers, he is
"Perhaps the biggest winners in postOlympic
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Andy Stanfield.
He has a staff of nearly 60 persons, some
located in several other sites in the huge
township, - probably one of the biggest such
areas of its type in New Jersey. It has been 31
medals at Helsinki, Finland, but around his
desk are the photographic memories of an illustrious
track career launched at nearby Seton
Hall University.
Despite his busy program that involves hundreds
of kids in Head-Start, elders in senioi
citizen projects, plus varied community pro
jects, he is making plans for a mammoth Neu
Jersey marathon,"Run for the Poor," schedul
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Another gold medal winner who has made it
in the business world is Hayes Jones, a hurdler,
who is currently manager of market development
for the Stroh Beer Co. in Detroit, Mich.
Jones has been in his new post for more than a
year, but prior to that served with American
Airlines.
1 Jones was a third-place finisher (bronze
i medal) in the Rome Olympics in 1960 when his
parents from Michigan cheered him from the
stands. Folir years later, Jones won the gold in
, his specialty ? the 110-meter hurdles ~ in
Tokyo.
Edwin Moses, the 1976 400-meter hurdling
} champion, is still competing and is expected to
be an important cog in the 1984 U.S. Olympic
team. Moses now has a degree in physics and
works as an athletic consultant and spokesman
for a film firm doing promotions and publicity
" for the Olympic Games. George
Rhoden, a gold medal winner in the
400 meters in 1952, is still involved in the
Masters Track Program. He is a podiatrist and
Morgan State College track star under Coach
Eddie Hurt in Baltimore, Md., ran in the Olymi
pics for Jamaica, his native home.
Mai Andrews, a 1956 Olympic broad jumper,
is now a teacher at Cal-State at Hayward,
Calif., and George Brown, a 1952 teammate of
Rhoden's, lives in Sacramento.
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