Lee Pearce ORR

Lee Orr was born in Canada but his family moved to Monroe, Washington when he was a small child. He starred in track, football, and tennis at Monroe Union High School and then attended Washington State Univ., where he played freshman football and sprinted on the track team, winning eight Pacific Coast Northern Division titles. At the 1938 British Empire Games Orr anchored the gold-medal winning 4×440 yards team (with Johnny Loaring, Bill Fritz, and the non-Olympian Bill Dale), and competed in the open 440 yards, losing out in the heats. After the Berlin Olympics, he returned to Germany as a member of the US Army during World War II. Orr settled in the Midwestern US where he worked for the Hormel Meat Company for 40 years before retiring and returning to Monroe.

Personal Bests: 100 – 10.5 (1936); 200 – 21.2 (1939).