Curtis C. Shears

(1901-1988) born at Omaha. Lawyer, social reformer, won bronze medal as member of the fencing team epee event at the 1932 Olympics, was trial attorney with Federal Trade Commission and also the Anti-Trust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, was instrumental from 1949 to 1964 in organizing "Big Brother" chapters in Washington, DC, Sacramento, and Hawaii; graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922, but did not accept commission. Consult Bill Mallon and Ian Buchanan, Quest For Gold: The Encyclopedia of American Olympians (Leisure Press, 1984) 103 and obituary in United States Naval Academy, Shipmate, October 1988, pp. 90-91.

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