Arie Gluck

Arie Gill-Glick
Personal information
Native name אריה גליק
Citizenship  Israel
Born (1930-04-13)April 13, 1930
Czechoslovakia
Died June 23, 2016(2016-06-23) (aged 86)
Voorhees Township, New Jersey
Sport
Country  Israel
Sport Athletics
Event(s) 400m; 800m
College team Adelphi University
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • 400 metres: 49.6 (1952)
  • 800 metres: 1:59.7 (1952)

Arie Gill-Glick (also "Aryeh" and "Gluck"; אריה גליק; April 13, 1930 – June 23, 2016) was an Israeli Olympic runner.[1][2][3]

Early and personal life

Born in Czechoslovakia, in 1933 when he was three years old his parents emigrated with him to Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv.[4][5] He was Jewish.[6] At age 15, he was in the Haganah, Israel’s pre-state army.[4] At age 17, he was in the Palmach, the Haganah’s special forces unit.[4] As a teenager, he fought in the Israeli War of Independence, and was wounded.[2][4]

He and his wife Elaine lived in Voorhees Township, New Jersey.[4] He named his son Gill, and also had two daughters, Roni and Ruth (who became associate director at the Katz JCC in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, after serving as its physical education director).[2][4][5] He attended synagogue at Temple Emanuel and Congregation M'kor Shalom.[4]

Running career

His personal bests were 49.6 in the 400 metres, and 1:59.7 in the 800 metres, both in 1952.[1]

He competed for Israel at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki at the age of 22.[1] In the Men's 400 metres he came in 5th in Heat 5 with a time of 50.2, and in the Men's 800 metres he came in 6th in Heat 7 with a time of 2:00.9.[1]

Life after the Olympics

He was a physical education teacher at the time that he competed in the Olympics.[2] After the Olympics he was recruited by the track coach at Adelphi University on Long Island, New York, for whom he competed in track.[4][5] In 1959 he then worked in Southern New Jersey as a physical education director at the Jewish Community Center (JCC).[4] In 1966, he was named director of the Jewish Reform movement’s Camp Harlam in near near Kresgeville, Pennsylvania, in the Poconos for 37 years.[4][3][7] He ultimately was in charge of all 12 of the movement’s camps, and retired in 2002.[4] Gill Glick died at the age of 86 in 2016, at Virtua Voorhees Hospital.[8]

References

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