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Looking Back in Beacon
Beacon was created in 1913 from Matteawan and Fishkill Landing. A three-card monte man charged with cheating young men at the ...
Mabel Staton, DePaul athlete who became Team USA's only female long jumper at the 1952 Olympics, dies at 92
Staton, who went by the name of Mabel Landry when she attended DePaul in the 1950s, before the school had a women's track team, was inducted into the university's athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.
Mabel Staton, trailblazer who was US team’s only female long jumper at the 1952 Olympics, dies at 92
An antidiscrimination lawsuit on her behalf helped lead to one of the first multiracial track teams in the Midwest.