1. John Joseph Macionis was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
14 Facts About John Macionis
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John Macionis was interviewed for the Mercersburg Academy oral history project in 2008 and recalled his single year at the academy.
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John Macionis said he was the son of working class Lithuanian immigrants, who, in the midst of the Great Depression, could not afford the cost of tuition at the private boarding school.
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The minimum for Mercersburg was $400 at the time, but John Macionis Miller talked to the headmaster about my background.
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John Macionis soon held all of Yale's freestyle records, as well as the school records for the individual medley and the 220-yard breaststroke.
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John Macionis placed second in the 440-yard freestyle, losing to Norris Hoyt, whose winning time was 4 minutes 59.8 seconds.
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At the March 1938 NCAA championships, John Macionis was described as "fast closing" when he took third place in the 220-yard Freestyle.
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Immediately after the Olympics, members of the US swim team, including John Macionis, took part in ad hoc barnstorming swim meets in Europe.
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John Macionis is a member of the Pennsylvania Swimming Hall of Fame in State College, Pennsylvania.
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John Macionis served as a commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander.
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John Macionis continued to swim in master's competition and, at age sixty-five, he held five world records for his age group.
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John Macionis was an active swimming official in the northeast, and especially in the Philadelphia region, for more than fifty years.
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John Macionis retired from officiating in 2009, and the last meet he officiated was an NCAA dual meet between LaSalle University and the University of Pennsylvania.
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John Macionis continued swimming every day until the age of ninety-four, when his health would no longer allow him to continue.