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Jack Shea is currently a Junior at SMCA. He is a part of the Model UN club and is hoping to attend the University of Notre Dame in the fall of 2012.

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+Jack Shea is currently a Junior at SMCA.  He is a part of the Model UN club and is hoping to attend the University of Notre Dame in the fall of 2012.
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-{{MedalSport | Men’s [[Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics|Speed Skating]]}}
-{{MedalGold| [[1932 Winter Olympics|1932 Lake Placid]] | 500 m}}
-{{MedalGold| [[1932 Winter Olympics|1932 Lake Placid]] | 1,500 m}}
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-'''John Amos Shea''' (September 7, 1910 &ndash; January 22, 2002), better known as '''Jack Shea''' or ''The Chief'', was an American double-Gold medalist in [[speed skating]] at the [[1932 Winter Olympics]].  He was the first American to win two Gold medals at the same Olympics {{ref|twogold}}, and the patriarch of what the [[BBC]] {{ref|bbc}} identified as the first family with three generations of Olympians.
-Shea won Gold medals in the 500-meter and 1500-meter events at the [[1932 Winter Olympics|III Olympic Winter Games]] in his hometown, [[Lake Placid, New York]]. He also recited the [[Olympic Oath]] at the opening ceremonies of the Games before then-New York State Governor [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].  Shea chose not to defend his Olympic titles at the [[1936 Winter Olympics]] in [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]], Germany, at the request of a Lake Placid rabbi for it would be in poor taste to be so "over-zealous."
-Decades later, Shea played a major role in returning the Winter Olympics to Lake Placid in 1980 as a member of the Olympic Organizing Committee.  Afterwards, he served as Vice Chairman of the [[Olympic Regional Development Authority]], the organization that manages the venues used in the 1980 Games.
-His son, Jim Shea, Sr., was a [[Nordic skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics|1964 Olympian in Nordic Combined and Cross Country Skiing]]; his grandson, [[Jimmy Shea|Jim Shea, Jr.]] was the Gold medalist in mens' Skeleton Sledding at the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] in Salt Lake City.  In the lead-up to the Salt Lake Games, Jack participated in the [[Olympic torch relay]], lighting a cauldron at the speed skating oval in Lake Placid where he had won his medals in 1932. Shea was killed in a head-on automobile collision by a drunk driver 17 days before he was to watch his grandson participate in the Salt Lake Games. [http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/bobsled/story?id=1337449][http://www.courts.state.ny.us/reporter/slips/15754.htm][http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1776000/1776146.stm]
-==Outside of sports==
-Shea attended Lake Placid High School, graduated from [[Dartmouth College]] and briefly attended [[Albany Law School]], leaving to support his family during the [[The Great Depression]] in a series of jobs in Lake Placid.  From 1958 to 1974, he was town Justice, and from 1974 until his retirement in 1983 he was the Supervisor of [[North Elba, New York|North Elba]]. {{ref|newsrelease}}
-==References ==
-#{{note|twogold}} [http://www.orda.org/newsite/about/annual_reports/200304.pdf 2003-04 Annual Report] (in [[Portable Document Format|PDF format]]) from the Olympic Regional Development Authority website
-#{{note|bbc}} [http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1776000/1776146.stm Winter Olympic hero dies], a January 2002 [[BBC]] article
-#{{note|newsrelease}} [http://lakeplacid.com/shared/media/press_release_articles.cfm?id=66 Jack Shea, Gold Medalist in 1932, Dies at 91], a January 2002 news release from the Lake Placid/[[Essex County, New York|Essex County]] Visitors Bureau
-==External links==
-*[http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1932 IOC 1932 Winter Olympics]
-*[http://www.skateresults.com/skater/show/961 Jack Shea at SkateResults.com]
-*[http://www.usolympicteam.com/26_577.htm Jack Shea's U.S. Olympic Team bio]
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