Sport: Track & Field
Events: Running
Year of Induction: 2004
Sport: Track & Field
Events: Running
Year of Induction: 2004
This native of Chatham starred in track and field at both Chatham Collegiate and Chatham Vocational School which led to his competing in the British Empire Games in 1938 and to entering Loyola University in Chicago on an athletic scholarship where he had an outstanding career winning 90 consecutive races in dual competition. Max was born in 1918 and passed away in Jacksonville, Florida in 1991.
After graduation, Max joined the Canadian Navy attaining the rank of lieutenant. After the war, he returned to Chicago and took a job as an industrial engineer with Management Systems Incorporated. Later Max became plant manager with Cupples-Hesse an envelope company in St. Louis, which in turn was bought out by St. Regis Paper Company. St. Regis in turn moved Max and his department to Jacksonville, Florida where he retired in 1982.