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May

Don May

  • Class
    1968
  • Induction
    2014
  • Sport(s)
    Track & Field
Jim Groark, Brian Hernon and Don May join the fourth member of the 1967 two-mile relay team, Jack Fath who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1980, in the Fordham Athletic Hall of Fame for their amazing 1967 season.
        The four joined forces in 1967 to set a school and Penn Relay record in the two-mile relay at the prestigious meet with a 7:21.4 finish, which was also the top time in the world that spring.
        The team opened the 1966-1967 indoor season by setting the field house record for the two-mile relay at the Naval Academy and then had an impressive first big meet, setting an indoor school and meet record of 7:30.6 in the Boston Garden.  After that race, Jesse Abramson, one of the top journalists in track and field history, labeled the Fordham relay the “Four Musketeers”.  He wrote: “Stanford had its Vow Boys in football, …Fordham has a two-mile team with similar dedication……took a blood oath last November that they would train faithfully all for one and one for all.”
        Outdoors that season, the Rams received an invitation to run in the Florida Relays at the end of March.  The foursome was greeted by Fordham Hall of Famer Tom Courtney at the airport who, after some plodding by the student-athletes, showed the relay team his gold medals.
        At the Florida Relays, the Fordham squad won the two-mile relay in 7:24.6, setting both a school and meet record.
        Back in New York, the foursome won the four-mile relay at the Queens-Iona Relays in preparations of the Penn Relays. 
        It was the first year for an all-weather track at Penn and six relays saw new records including the distance medley on Friday, an event where the Rams placed second in a school-record time of 9:44.6, a mark that still stands today.
        The next day the Rams broke the Penn Relay two-mile relay meet record by 4.7 seconds as well as the school record and ran the fastest time in the country: 7:21.6, beating Villanova to the tape for the third time that spring. The race came down to the final leg as Fath took over a couple yards behind his Villanova counterpart, Dave Patrick, the world indoor record holder. Fath sped down the outside approaching the finish line to edge the Villanova runner at the tape before falling to the damp cinders.
        Following the Penn Relays, the team was gearing up for a trip to California to compete in the 1967 California Relays, but an injury to Fath curtailed those plans.
        Groark, a native of Scarsdale, New York, resides in San Diego, California, with his wife, Kathy. They are the parents of three children, Deanna, Chris and Tom. He is currently employed as a real estate broker.
        Hernon, a White Plains, New York, native, currently resides in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Beth Reeves. They are the parents of two daughters, Sara Ming Xi and Katherine Ai Hui Hernon-Reeves.
        May, a Norwell, Massachusetts, native, resides in Anchorage, Alaska, with his wife, Lin. They have two children, Justin and Christina. He serves as a Principal at Don May & Associates.
                Fath, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame an individual in 1980 for earning All-American status as a sub-four-minute miler, is a native of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. He currently resides in Patchogue, New York, where he is an attorney. He has two children, Tess and Rebecca.
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