Cross country runner Marty Smith
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Washington College cross country runner Marty Smith and others at the start of a race. Smith was the first African American to represent WAC on a major athletic team. He was MVP and captain of three sports and one of the school’s top runners setting course record and course marks in 1965 and 1966. He set a half mile record (1:59.9) in 1966. No slouch on the basketball court he was the leading scorer his senior year, and among the top scorers in Maryland. He was selected to the All-Tournament at the North-South Fiesta and All-Middle Atlantic Conference. Member of Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges and Phi Sigma Kappa, he was on the Dean’s list twice, class VP and member of Omicron Delta Kappa. A recipient of the Clark-Porter medal for enhancing the quality of campus life and the Eldridge L. Eliason award for athletic and scholastic standing. After graduation h received a masters and doctorate from Cornell University in economics and in 1980 was selected as one of the most outstanding Black Americans in the field of economics by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. He was inducted to Washington College’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1988.
MS0061-30-03-023 1966
black-and-white photographs
African American college students, African American men, Male cross-country runners, College sports