Hall of Honor
More than a decade after his graduation, the name of “Harve” Flodin still appears under seven Beloit College track records. Athlete of the year as a senior and twice Midwest Conference 440 champion, he holds two individual school marks and shares in five others as a member of relay teams. It was also as team captain in 1961 that Flodin set a Beloit record of 20.9 in the 220, lowering by half a second the standard that stood nearly 60 years and coming at a time when the world mark was 20 seconds flat. Holder of the 440 record of 48.2, this speedster anchored the championship mile relay team in the 1960 conference meet, at which he was runnerup in the 440, and was the outstanding performer in the 1961 Beloit Relays. Flodin was anchorman for the 440, 880 and mile relay teams that established existing school records in 1961 and lead-off man for the sprint and distance medley quartets that set Beloit marks in 1959. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate who earned his J.D. Degree at the Duke University School of Law, he is assistant general counsel for Baxter Laboratories in Deerfield, Illinois.
