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Robert S. Garrett (May 24, 1875 – April 25, 1961) was an American athlete, as well as investment banker and philanthropist in Baltimore, Maryland and financier of several important archeological excavations.
His Olympic medals were sadly destroyed in a 1930s fire at Princeton's gymnasium, but his story was immortalised on the silver screen in the 1984 film First Olympics. The young Robert Garrett had entered Princeton University in 1893.
Robert S. Garrett 1897, Professor William Milligan Sloane, and the Olympic Revival. A century and a quarter after the revival of the Olympic Games, it may be surprising what a tenuous, if ultimately glorious, undertaking it was. Princeton University had a notable role in its success.
Mar 4, 2019 · Robert Garrett is a healthcare leader who co-founded Hackensack Meridian Health, an integrated network of 17 hospitals and 180 facilities in New Jersey. He shares his mission, vision and challenges in transforming health care and creating a medical school.
Baltimore native Robert Garrett (1875-1961), photographed here with discus, joined twelve others to make up the entire first Olympic team representing the United States in the revived Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, in 1896.
Jul 23, 2021 · Legacy lives on of Baltimore Olympian Robert Garrett. It was 125 years ago in the summer Olympics of 1896 that Garrett was making headlines, competing along with about 240 others. ...more.
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