backstroke at the 1924 Summer Olympics. John William Chapman served as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (1953–61). Rey Colón, alderman of the 35th ward of the City of Chicago Bill Conterio was a soccer player who played professionally in the National Soccer League of Chicago, and played for the United States men's national soccer team at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics. David Diaz is a boxer who held the WBC world lightweight championship (2006–08). Adolph Dubs was the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (1978–79). He was assassinated there, and was not replaced until 2002. Bruce DuMont is the host of the political radio talk show Beyond the Beltway. He also founded the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Vincent du Vigneaud was a biochemist who won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in the isolation, identification, and synthesis of oxytocin. Ed Earle played basketball for the Syracuse Nationals of the NBL (1953–54). Moe Franklin was a Major League Baseball player. Leo Freisinger was a speed skater who won a bronze medal in the 500m event at the 1936 Winter Olympics. Myrna Hansen was an actress who won the titles of Miss Illinois USA and Miss USA in 1953. Sheldon Harnick is a Pulitzer Prize–winning lyricist (Fiorello!, Fiddler on the Roof). Walter Hoffelder was an Illinois state legislator and businessman. Emerson C. Itschner was an engineer who served in the United States Army, rising to the rank of Lieutenant General, leading the Army Corps of Engineers as Chief of Engineers (1956–61). Donald Johanson is a paleoanthropologist best known for his 1974 discovery of the fossil Lucy. Luke Johnsos was an NFL end (1929–36), playing his entire career for the Chicago Bears. From 1942–45, he shared head coaching duties for the Bears. David M. Maddox is a former four–star general who served as Commander in Chief, United States Army Europe (1992–94). Harry Markowitz is an economist who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in Modern Portfolio Theory. Terrence McCann was a wrestler who won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1960 Olympics. He would go on to help found USA Wrestling, the national governing body for freestyle and Greco-Roman Wrestling. George E. McNally was a city official and briefly the 87th Mayor of Mobile, Alabama. William S. Paley was a radio, recording industry, and television executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) into a national