Robert Halperin

Robert Halperin
Nickname:	Buck
Nationality:	United States
Birthday:	January 26, 1908
Place of birth:	Chicago
Date of death:	May 8, 1985
Place of death:	Palm Springs
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	93 kg
Society:	Chicago Yacht Club
Boat classes:	star
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × Pan American Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Rome 1960 star  Pan American Games gold São Paulo 1963 star

Robert Sherman "Buck" Halperin (born January 26, 1908 in Chicago , † May 8, 1985 in Palm Springs ) was an American sailor , naval officer , American football player and entrepreneur .

Career

Halperin played college football at the University of Notre Dame under Knute Rockne and the University of Wisconsin . He graduated from the latter in 1932. With the Brooklyn Dodgers under coach Benny Friedman he was then active as a professional football player of the NFL on the position of quarterback before he worked as a coach at St. Patrick High School in his native Chicago.

At the beginning of the Second World War he enrolled in the US Navy , where he reached the rank of Lieutenant Commander by the end of the war . He received the Navy Cross for his services in North Africa . He also fought in Sicily , Italy , Europe, the Normandy landings and also in the Pacific . From 1945 he trained in China as a member of a small command group around 3500 Chinese guerrilla fighters, for which he was awarded the cloud-and-banner order by the Chinese government at the time. In the course of the war, he also received the Bronze Star Medal and a Silver Star twice .

Robert Halperin, who was a member of the Chicago Yacht Club , took part in the star boat at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome . Together with William Parks , he finished the regatta behind Timir Pinegin and Fyodor Schutkow from the Soviet Union as well as the Portuguese José Manuel Quina and Mário Quina in third place, which they received the bronze medal. He also took part in numerous world championships without placing himself among the top three teams. At the Pan American Games in São Paulo in 1963 , Halperin secured the gold medal in the star boat with Richard Stearns . With Stearns, Gary Comer and two Stearns employees, he founded Lands' End as a mail order company that same year .

Halperin's father, Aaron Halperin, founded the Commercial Light Company in 1915 , which provides electrical installation and electrical engineering services. Robert Halperin initially worked in its management and finally became its president in 1959 and chairman of the supervisory board in the 1960s. He was married and had three sons with his wife. He also had four grandchildren at the time of his death and lived in Palm Springs , California . Halperin also had three brothers and a sister herself.

Web links

• Robert Halperin in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Robert Halperin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Kenan Heise: Robert Halperin, 77, War Hero, Executive. In: chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune , May 9, 1985, accessed July 27, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Gary Comer. (No longer available online.) In: anbhf.org. American National Business Hall of Fame, May 9, 1985, archived from the original November 2, 2013 ; accessed on July 27, 2020 (English).