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I'm interested in communicating with anyone who is a descendant of or knows anything about Norman S. Taber (1891-1952). He attended Brown University in Rhode Island, won a gold medal in the 3000-meter team event at the 1912 Olympics (plus a bronze medal individually in the 1500 meters), was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford after finishing his senior year at Brown in 1913, and returned to the United States in 1915 to unify the amateur and professional world records in the mile run in a race on July 16 at Harvard. Taber in so doing broke a professional record that had stood since 1886, the last of the professional track & field records to fall to the amateurs. His time was 4:12.6, and stood until August 23, 1923, when it was bettered (4:10.4) by Paavo Nurmi "the flying Finn."
In later life Taber was a professional consultant in public finance. He wrote an article on the subject in the August 1938 issue of Atlantic Monthly. A story about his world record performance appears in the January 16, 1916, issue of the New York Times (six months after the race).
Particularly, I'd be interested in communicating with any Taber family genealogists who live in Massachusetts or Rhode Island, even if you aren't related to or weren't previously familiar with Norman S. Taber. (Boston and Providence newspaper microfilms aren't available readily where I am, so I'm hunting for a gopher).
Chris Kuykendall
Austin, Texas
<chris.kuykendall@tlc.state.tx.us>
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