Andrew J. Jr. LIBANO

Andrew Libano sailed as a crew member to helmsman Gilbert Gray in the Star Class at the 1932 Olympics. Libano was a member of the Southern Yacht Club with Gray. Together they won the Preliminary Olympic Trials in New Orleans, the Gulf Coast Semi-Final Olympic Trials, also in New Orleans, and the Final Olympic Trials in Long Beach, California. Libano attended Rugby Academy in New Orleans, and then Tulane University. He worked in the wholesale grocery business with his father, who was president of J. & M. Schabacher. Libano and Gray sailed together for five years before Libano’s early death from a Streptococcal infection.