Gloria Callen
Gloria Marie Callen (December 21, 1923 – September 2, 2016) was an American backstroke swimmer. She was the 1942 Associated Press Athlete of the Year. Biography Callen was born in 1923 in Freeport, New York. She married Herbert Erskine Jones Jr. in 1944. Callen set 35 American records and one world record in swimming, and won 13 American championships. Due to World War II, she was never able to compete in world championships or Olympic Games, even though she qualified for the 1940 Summer Olympics. She quit swimming when she went to college at Barnard College and joined the American Women's Voluntary Services. Callen was one in a row of glamorous swimming champions, and was voted one of America's 13 best-dressed women by the New York's Fashion Academy. Honors 1942: Associated Press Athlete of the Year 1976: inducted in the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame 1984: International Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer See also List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame References 1923 births 2016 deaths American female swimmers Barnard College alumni 20th-century American women 21st-century American women