At my son's track meet today - indoors at Evanston (Illinois) H.S. - I got to chat with Willie May, Silver Medalist 110m 1960 Olympics. He's 70ish but still looks fit enough to clear 10 hurdles in a decent time. Funny thing is, he looks about the same as when I ran high school in the 1970s.
May retired as the head coach and from teaching. However, Evanston H.S. has two outstanding sophomores, and I hear he wants to stay on as an assistant to see these two through their senior year. While May has spent the last 35-plus years on the North Side of Chicago, those of us from the other direction know Willie May is a Chicago South Sider. A trivia note: May graduated from Blue Island (Illinois) Eisenhower H.S., the same school that produced Wallace Spearmon Sr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_May_(athletics) P.S. Speaking of aging gracefully, this was my freshman son's first-ever indoor race. Running the mile - Evanston H.S.'s ID track was never converted to meters - he ran 5:04, beating my family indoor high school mile debut record of 5:15 set in 1973. My only consolation is that Evanston's track is 10 laps per mile while I ran on a really tight-turned 11-lap per mile track;)
