Thanks for your kind words, I found out about your grandfather from David Wallechinsky’s “The Complete Book of the Olympics”. I have the 2000 edition which has a paragraph on Ray (and a slightly blurry black and white photo) in the “discontinued track and field events” section, and when Phelps was being hailed in the summer, I suddenly remembered about him, and thought it would be nice to write about him. I noticed a few news organisations covered it as well (although they all seem to have got their info from the same book as me!)

Good luck with the book.

I was rumaging through the internet and miraculously came across this site and your article aboput my grandfather, Ray Ewry. What a rush!

I am in the process of writing his story, complete with his dark years of polio, and how he conquered i and went on to win those 10 individual gold medals.

The “my, what a small world we live in” trip is that Michael Phelps gradated from my high school, Towson HS in Baltimore and he happens tolive no more than 2 miles from my home.

I want to thank you for laying it on the line about Ray’s individual medal count. Not many people even believe he could do those amazing things. I’d love to know what made you do the research on him or what gave you the idea.

Write if you can!

Best to you and yours for this upcoming holiday season.

Tom Caron
tecv.survivor17@gmail.com
ray.ewry.research.group@gmail.com