Dorothy Hamill - Academy of Achievement

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I'd be at the skating rink all day long, just skating around and around. I could be all alone and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody. I was in my fantasy world." As a little girl in Riverside, Connecticut, Dorothy Hamill was shy and withdrawn. An older brother and sister won praise for their athletic and academic accomplishments, and Dorothy felt left behind, especially skating on the frozen pond near her grandparents' house. When her mother offered her skating lessons, she seized the opportunity and never looked back. In a few years she was winning national youth competitions and working with the country's top coaches. In 1976 she dazzled audiences around the world with her grace, athleticism and winning personality at the Winter Olympics. The judges unanimously awarded her the gold medal. At age 19 she had become one of the most popular athletes in America, the internationally recognized face of figure skating. She won three consecutive national figure skating championships and capped her Olympic triumph with a victory in the World Championship of Figure Skating. As a professional, she has continued to captivate audiences as the star of live performances and her own television specials, and found time to win five consecutive professional championships. To this day, Dorothy says she skates because, "I just love it. It's carried me through a lot of tough times, skating has. It's my release, it's my therapy." She fondly quotes the words of a blind child she carried on her back for a ride on the ice: "Oh! 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When her mother offered her skating lessons, she seized the opportunity and never looked back. In a few years she was winning national youth competitions and working with the country's top coaches.</p> <p class="inputText">In 1976 she dazzled audiences around the world with her grace, athleticism and winning personality at the Winter Olympics. The judges unanimously awarded her the gold medal. At age 19 she had become one of the most popular athletes in America, the internationally recognized face of figure skating.</p> <p class="inputText">She won three consecutive national figure skating championships and capped her Olympic triumph with a victory in the World Championship of Figure Skating. As a professional, she has continued to captivate audiences as the star of live performances and her own television specials, and found time to win five consecutive professional championships.</p> <p class="inputText">To this day, Dorothy says she skates because, "I just love it. 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I could be all alone and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody. I was in my fantasy world."</p> <p class="inputText">As a little girl in Riverside, Connecticut, Dorothy Hamill was shy and withdrawn. An older brother and sister won praise for their athletic and academic accomplishments, and Dorothy felt left behind, especially skating on the frozen pond near her grandparents' house. When her mother offered her skating lessons, she seized the opportunity and never looked back. In a few years she was winning national youth competitions and working with the country's top coaches.</p> <p class="inputText">In 1976 she dazzled audiences around the world with her grace, athleticism and winning personality at the Winter Olympics. The judges unanimously awarded her the gold medal. At age 19 she had become one of the most popular athletes in America, the internationally recognized face of figure skating.</p> <p class="inputText">She won three consecutive national figure skating championships and capped her Olympic triumph with a victory in the World Championship of Figure Skating. As a professional, she has continued to captivate audiences as the star of live performances and her own television specials, and found time to win five consecutive professional championships.</p> <p class="inputText">To this day, Dorothy says she skates because, "I just love it. It's carried me through a lot of tough times, skating has. It's my release, it's my therapy." She fondly quotes the words of a blind child she carried on her back for a ride on the ice: "Oh! 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Olympics was sheer perseverance. Not because I was certainly more talented than anybody else. I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice and the last one off.</h3> </header> </div> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar clearfix"> <h2 class="serif-3 p-b-1">Gold Medal Figure Skater</h2> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> July 26, 1956 </dd> </div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p class="inputtextfirst">Dorothy Hamill was born in Chicago, Illinois, but her parents soon moved to Riverside, Connecticut, where she began skating at the age of eight on a pond behind her grandparents’ home. Frustrated when she was unable to keep up with her older sister on the ice, Dorothy asked her parents for skating lessons and soon discovered her life’s passion. She spent every possible moment on the ice and by age 11 was entering and winning figure skating competitions in New York City. Her parents supported her ambitions, waking at four in the morning to take her to the rink for early-morning practice sessions.</p> <figure id="attachment_21895" style="width: 2000px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21895 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1461015263-1975-dorothy-hamill.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21895 size-full lazyload" alt="March 1, 1975: Portrait of Olympic figure skater Dorothy Hamill of the United States before the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Tony Duffy/Getty Images)" width="2000" height="3013" data-sizes="(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1461015263-1975-dorothy-hamill.jpg 2000w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1461015263-1975-dorothy-hamill-252x380.jpg 252w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1461015263-1975-dorothy-hamill-504x760.jpg 504w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1461015263-1975-dorothy-hamill.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">March 1, 1975: Portrait of Olympic figure skater Dorothy Hamill of the United States before the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado. After seeing Julie Andrews in <em>The</em> <i>Sound of Music</i>, Dorothy was inspired to cut her hair in a similar fashion and cried for two days because she thought she looked like a boy. During the 1976 Winter Olympics, her hairstyle became an international sensation. (Tony Duffy/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure><p class="inputtext">At 13, Dorothy was spending her weeks in New York City, working with coach Gus Lussi at Lake Placid, and traveling to competitions around the country. In 1969 she won the National Novice title and took home a silver medal from the Junior Nationals the following year. She began to train at the Broadmoor Skating Club in Colorado Springs with Carlo Fassi, the coach who had guided Olympic champion Peggy Fleming.</p> <p class="inputtext">Only one year later, she was competing as an adult and reached the top five in the National Championships. By 1973 she had reached second place in the U.S. National competition and number four in the World Championships. She won her first U.S. Championship in 1974, and successfully defended the title for the two following seasons.</p> <figure id="attachment_22370" style="width: 2048px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-22370 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-81375035-Copy.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-22370 size-full lazyload" alt="January 1976: Dorothy Hamill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (John G. Zimmerman/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)" width="2048" height="3073" data-sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-81375035-Copy.jpg 2048w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-81375035-Copy-253x380.jpg 253w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-81375035-Copy-507x760.jpg 507w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-81375035-Copy.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">January 1976: Dorothy Hamill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (John G. Zimmerman/Sports Illustrated/Getty)</figcaption></figure><p class="inputtext">At age 19, she won a triple crown, snagging both the U.S. and World Championships and winning the gold medal in the 1976 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. Her performance at the Olympics captivated an international audience, and hair stylists all over the United States were mobbed with customers seeking to emulate her distinctive hairstyle. She found herself continually in demand for commercial endorsements, to a degree unmatched by any figure skater before or since.</p> <figure id="attachment_21919" style="width: 813px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21919 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img-dorothy-hamill_082425444874.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21919 size-full lazyload" alt="1976: Dorothy Hamill skates during the Winter Olympics competition in Innsbruck, Austria. Dorothy Hamill won the gold medal for the United States in the Womens Figure Skating competition. (Photo by Tony Duffy/Getty Images)" width="813" height="1200" data-sizes="(max-width: 813px) 100vw, 813px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img-dorothy-hamill_082425444874.jpg 813w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img-dorothy-hamill_082425444874-257x380.jpg 257w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img-dorothy-hamill_082425444874-515x760.jpg 515w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img-dorothy-hamill_082425444874.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1976: Dorothy Hamill skates during the Winter Olympics competition in Innsbruck, Austria. Dorothy Hamill won the gold medal for the United States in the Womens Figure Skating competition. (Photo by Tony Duffy/Getty)</figcaption></figure><p class="inputtext">After her triumph in the Olympics and at the World Championships, she relinquished her amateur status, and went professional, undertaking a grueling touring schedule with the Ice Capades. She remained with the Ice Capades for eight years, and also appeared in a series of popular television specials with film and music stars Gene Kelly, Perry Como and Andy Williams and a televised production of <i>Romeo and Juliet on Ice. </i>She also toured in <i>Nutcracker on Ice </i>and with the show <i>Stars on Ice. </i>She continued to participate in professional competition, winning the World Professional Championship for five years running, from 1983 to 1987.</p> <figure id="attachment_21912" style="width: 1936px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21912 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-dorothy231.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21912 size-full lazyload" alt="Dorothy Hamill clutches her Olympic gold medal as "The Star Spangled Banner" is played at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)" width="1936" height="2804" data-sizes="(max-width: 1936px) 100vw, 1936px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-dorothy231.jpg 1936w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-dorothy231-262x380.jpg 262w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-dorothy231-525x760.jpg 525w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-dorothy231.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">February 13, 1976: Dorothy Hamill clutches her Olympic gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. At the awards ceremony, the 19-year-old Hamill cried. “I couldn’t help it,” she said. “It wasn’t because I had finally won the medal. It was seeing the American flag go up and hearing the band play ‘The Star Spangled Banner.'”</figcaption></figure><p class="inputtext">Dorothy Hamill was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1991. That same year, she bought out the financially troubled Ice Capades and produced and starred in a highly acclaimed tour, <i>Frozen in Time: Cinderella on Ice. </i>During the three years she ran the celebrated ice show, she made substantial improvements in the working conditions of professional skaters, instituting regular practice and training sessions and eliminating demeaning weekly weigh-ins.</p> <figure id="attachment_5850" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-5850 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_bush_academy_1610.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-5850 size-full lazyload" alt="First Lady Laura Bush receives the Golden Plate Award from Olympic skating champion Dorothy Hamill. (© Academy of Achievement) " width="2280" height="1571" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_bush_academy_1610.jpg 2280w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_bush_academy_1610-380x262.jpg 380w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_bush_academy_1610-760x524.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_bush_academy_1610.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">First Lady Laura Bush receives the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award from Council member and Olympic skating champion Dorothy Hamill during the 2007 International Achievement Summit in Washington.</figcaption></figure><p class="inputtext">Dorothy’s charity work has included the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, the International Special Olympics, the American Cancer Society, and AIDS research foundations, and teaching blind children to skate through the March of Dimes.</p> <figure id="attachment_21889" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21889 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/36143_Scott-Dorothy_038837_11-05-11_0837_DG.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21889 size-full lazyload" alt="2011: Olympic figure skating champions Scott Hamilton and Dorothy Hamill at the Scott Hamilton and Friends Ice Show in Cleveland, Ohio. (Dan Gerda)" width="2280" height="3433" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/36143_Scott-Dorothy_038837_11-05-11_0837_DG.jpg 2280w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/36143_Scott-Dorothy_038837_11-05-11_0837_DG-252x380.jpg 252w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/36143_Scott-Dorothy_038837_11-05-11_0837_DG-505x760.jpg 505w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/36143_Scott-Dorothy_038837_11-05-11_0837_DG.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2011: Olympic champions Scott Hamilton and Dorothy Hamill at the Scott Hamilton Ice Show in Cleveland, Ohio.</figcaption></figure><p class="inputtext">For some years she was plagued with osteoarthritis, but correct diagnosis and treatment have returned her to live performance. Today, Dorothy Hamill lives in Vail, Colorado and Indian Wells, California, with her husband, business executive John MacColl. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 and has made it her mission to empower other women by helping to launch a national campaign called BeWisER+ About Breast Cancer.</p></body></html> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="profile" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <header class="editorial-article__header"> <figure class="text-xs-center"> <img class="inductee-badge" src="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/themes/aoa/assets/images/inducted-badge@2x.png" alt="Inducted Badge" width="120" height="120"/> <figcaption class="serif-3 text-brand-primary"> Inducted in 1996 </figcaption> </figure> </header> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <dl class="clearfix m-b-0"> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Career</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> <div><a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.figure-skater">Figure Skater</a></div> </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> July 26, 1956 </dd> </div> </dl> </aside> <article class="col-md-8 editorial-article clearfix"> <p class="inputTextFirst">“I wasn’t particularly athletic or gifted, but I loved it. I’d be at the skating rink all day long, just skating around and around. I could be all alone and nobody could get near me and I didn’t have to talk to anybody. I was in my fantasy world.”</p> <p class="inputText">As a little girl in Riverside, Connecticut, Dorothy Hamill was shy and withdrawn. An older brother and sister won praise for their athletic and academic accomplishments, and Dorothy felt left behind, especially skating on the frozen pond near her grandparents’ house. When her mother offered her skating lessons, she seized the opportunity and never looked back. In a few years she was winning national youth competitions and working with the country’s top coaches.</p> <p class="inputText">In 1976 she dazzled audiences around the world with her grace, athleticism and winning personality at the Winter Olympics. The judges unanimously awarded her the gold medal. At age 19 she had become one of the most popular athletes in America, the internationally recognized face of figure skating.</p> <p class="inputText">She won three consecutive national figure skating championships and capped her Olympic triumph with a victory in the World Championship of Figure Skating. As a professional, she has continued to captivate audiences as the star of live performances and her own television specials, and found time to win five consecutive professional championships.</p> <p class="inputText">To this day, Dorothy says she skates because, “I just love it. It’s carried me through a lot of tough times, skating has. It’s my release, it’s my therapy.” She fondly quotes the words of a blind child she carried on her back for a ride on the ice: “Oh! I can feel the wind on my face!”</p> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="interview" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 interview-feature-video"> <figure> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/eryWaybb3JU?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=2259&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_04_42_06.Still001-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_04_42_06.Still001-760x428.jpg"></div> <div class="video-tag sans-4"> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> <div class="video-tag__text">Watch full interview</div> </div> </div> </figure> </div> <header class="col-md-12 text-xs-center m-b-2"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> </header> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <h2 class="serif-3 achiever--biography-subtitle">Gold Medal Figure Skater</h2> <div class="sans-2">Scottsdale, Arizona</div> <div class="sans-2">June 17, 2000</div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8">   <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p class="inputtextfirst"><b>From an early age, you were committed to skating. When did you realize you could be an Olympic champion?</b></p> <p class="inputtext">Dorothy Hamill: I was always committed, yes.</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/bnlQpJDBC34?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=0&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_33_42_27.Still009-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_33_42_27.Still009-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="inputtext">Even when I was on the world team two years before the Olympics, with ice skating you just never know that you’re going to make it. And even then I thought, ‘Well gee, I hope I make the Olympic team in 1976.” There was never any thought that, “Yes, I’m going to make the team, and yeah, I could win a medal.” You know, deep down inside I knew that if I worked really hard and if I skated my best, I had a really good shot at making the team, and I had a really good shot at winning a medal. And this is when I was already number two in the world. So you know, I was never that confident, but I knew if I did all the right things, I had a shot at it.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_22371" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-22371 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-166051956-Copy.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-22371 size-full lazyload" alt="January 1975: Dorothy Hamill on the ice rink. (John G. Zimmerman (Photo by John G. Zimmerman /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)" width="2280" height="2342" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-166051956-Copy.jpg 2280w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-166051956-Copy-370x380.jpg 370w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-166051956-Copy-740x760.jpg 740w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-166051956-Copy.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">January 1975: Dorothy Hamill on the ice rink. (John G. Zimmerman (Getty Images)</figcaption></figure><p><strong>How did you handle the pressure of competition?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Usually go into the bathroom and throw up.</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/WtJKbR6jMHU?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_16_16_04.Still004-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_16_16_04.Still004-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/courage/">Courage</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="inputtext">I really would get violently ill. So I never ate very much before I competed because I couldn’t keep it down. I often thought it was really like going to your own execution. You know, from the time I got up in the morning I’d be counting, looking at the clock and saying, “Okay, I’ve only got 12 hours until I’ll be finished,” and “Nine hours until I’m finished,” and “Five minutes from now I’ll be finished.” It was just — I couldn’t wait ’til it was over. But once I got onto the ice, and once the music started — after about 30 seconds — I was okay. But it’s just that first 30 seconds, which is why I would always do, you know, one of those easy jumps that kind of — you didn’t really have to worry about maybe missing it, and then the next couple of jumps were always the tough ones, because you’re still full of energy before you get exhausted at the end of the program.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_21897" style="width: 1398px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21897 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill067.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21897 size-full lazyload" alt="Dorothy Hamill after winning the gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)" width="1398" height="1890" data-sizes="(max-width: 1398px) 100vw, 1398px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill067.jpg 1398w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill067-281x380.jpg 281w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill067-562x760.jpg 562w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill067.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Dorothy Hamill after winning the gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)</figcaption></figure><p class="inputtext"><b>Do you have to live with the fear of failure or self-doubts when you are competing at that level?</b></p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/guhN6UKj1fc?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=0&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_25_16_19.Still006-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_25_16_19.Still006-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/integrity/">Integrity</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="inputtext">Dorothy Hamill: I have always had self-doubt, still do. Fear of failure, not really. Didn’t matter. I mean we all say this, but it’s true. You know, you just want to go out and skate well. I just never wanted to embarrass myself. It didn’t matter if I won or not. You hope that your best is better than everybody else’s best. But, I was always out there competing against myself, because there were so many more skaters that were much more talented than I.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_21907" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21907 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-medal.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21907 size-full lazyload" alt="1976: Dorothy Hamill wearing her gold medal at the Winter Olympics skating competition in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria." width="1024" height="768" data-sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-medal.jpg 1024w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-medal-380x285.jpg 380w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-medal-760x570.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-medal.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Dorothy Hamill wearing her gold medal at the Winter Olympics skating competition in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria.</figcaption></figure></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/XyuE5FZ3FT0?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_23_35_03.Still005-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_23_35_03.Still005-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/perseverance/">Perseverance</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="inputtext">I think the reason I won the Olympics was sheer perseverance. Not because I was certainly more talented than anybody else. I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice and the last one off. I’m just one of those people that has to be overtrained and overworked before I can do my best. That’s unlike a lot of my friends and colleagues today. But so, you know, it was just sheer perseverance. I was not the most talented, still am not the most talented. Whatever I’ve done has just come through hard work really, and the love of it and the passion for it.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p><strong>There are a lot of talented people out there. Weren’t those other young women working just as hard, wanting it just as badly? At least on that day, you succeeded where they failed. You got the gold medal. </strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Right. There were three of us that sort of played musical chairs. Dianne DeLeeuw, who competed for Holland (she’s American, but she competed for Holland), Christine Errath, who was East German, and myself. The three of us would sort of trade places every year at the World Championships. Dianne DeLeeuw won the World’s once, I was second, Christine was third. Then Christine won, I was second, Dianne was third. So I was always second. And then the Olympic year, I was the lucky one. You’re right, they all did probably work just as hard.</p> <figure id="attachment_21898" style="width: 1398px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21898 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill076.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21898 size-full lazyload" alt="Dorothy Hamill in her technical skate at the Goodwill Winter Games, February 18, 2000. (Reuters/Peter Jones/Archive Photos)" width="1398" height="1854" data-sizes="(max-width: 1398px) 100vw, 1398px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill076.jpg 1398w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill076-287x380.jpg 287w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill076-573x760.jpg 573w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill076.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Dorothy Hamill in her technical skate at the Goodwill Winter Games, February 18, 2000. (Reuters/Peter Jones)</figcaption></figure><p><strong>So what was it inside of you that accounted for that gold medal?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: If I knew that I could probably make a lot of money off of it. I think timing had a lot to do with it. I think I was sort of ready for it that year. The other years, quite honestly, I didn’t work as hard as I did the year I won. I worked hard, but not as hard. Maybe they didn’t work as hard the year of the Olympics or something. I really have no idea.</p> <p><strong>What was it like off the ice with the women you are competing with?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: It was cordial. There was a language barrier with the East German woman. We were girls.</p> <p><strong>How about among the American girls that you were competing with for places on the team?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: They were younger than I. Little Linda Fratiana, everyone hoped she would win the Olympic gold medal at Lake Placid in 1980. She was sort of a hot young up-and-coming kid. She skated at Nationals and skated much better than I did. She probably should have won, but I had seniority — politics of ice skating and all of that. She didn’t win, but she was a darling young lady. I think she was 13 maybe, just a little spitfire doing triples. That’s when the triples started. I barely knew her, so it wasn’t like today where the kids skate together all the time and tour together. The first time I ever met her was at Nationals.</p> <figure id="attachment_21902" style="width: 728px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21902 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1982.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21902 size-full lazyload" alt="Dorothy Hamill waves to crowds after her 1982 wedding to her first husband, Dean Paul Martin, son of Dean Martin." width="728" height="450" data-sizes="(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1982.jpg 728w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1982-380x235.jpg 380w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1982.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Dorothy Hamill waves to crowds after her 1982 wedding to her husband, Dean Paul Martin, son of Dean Martin.</figcaption></figure><p><strong>Is it tough to deal with the political side of competitive skating? How do you deal with that?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good. If the judges said, “Dorothy can’t do school figures,” he would have the judges come out, and he’d show that I could do them and say, “Now, tell me that this isn’t good.”</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Z5GT0Ba-AE?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_08_31_20.Still002-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_08_31_20.Still002-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/courage/">Courage</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="inputtext">I just got so darn nervous when it was competition time, I completely flipped out. I mean, you’re trying to trace these perfect circles, which are gone now today. They don’t do those anymore. You get nervous and you hyperventilate and you see your life flashing in front of you and you start shaking. You know, you can’t trace those circles. Also I was blind. Nobody knew I couldn’t see. So the year before the Olympics I got glasses, so that helped a lot. There were all of these factors I think that contributed to part of my not feeling confident and being shy.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_21903" style="width: 728px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21903 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1984.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21903 size-full lazyload" alt="Dorothy Hamill and her mother, Carolyn, in New York City in 1984. (Globe Photos)" width="728" height="450" data-sizes="(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1984.jpg 728w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1984-380x235.jpg 380w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1984.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Dorothy Hamill and her mother, Carolyn, in New York City in 1984. (Globe Photos)</figcaption></figure><p class="inputtext"><b>What were the rewards for you? Were your parents there on the day you got the gold medal?</b></p> <p class="inputtext">Dorothy Hamill: Yes. My father was in the arena, my mother was in the hotel. She wasn’t a smoker, but she chain-smoked that day!</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/7yFfURlI00A?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=69&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_14_25_07.Still003-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_14_25_07.Still003-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/the-american-dream/">The American Dream</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="inputtext">My dad was very proud. My mom — I remember walking into the hotel room and she said, “So, how did you do?” I said, “I won.” And she looked at me startled and said, “You did?” She was shocked. She never congratulated me. I think she just never thought I would do it. But my dad, of course, was very proud. And I’m sure my mother was proud. I just didn’t know. I guess about four years before the Olympics the goal was to try and make it to the Olympics and hopefully maybe win a medal. And then all of a sudden when that actually happens, it’s disconcerting. I mean, now what? What happens now? We didn’t plan for that. You know, we just planned for everything up until that moment. And then, “Oh, now what?” So it was an interesting time.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_21913" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21913 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy395.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21913 size-full lazyload" alt="Dorothy Hamill" width="2280" height="2769" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy395.jpg 2280w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy395-313x380.jpg 313w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy395-626x760.jpg 626w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy395.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Dorothy Hamill</figcaption></figure><p class="inputtext"><b>What disappointments have you suffered during your career and how have you dealt with them?</b></p> <p class="inputtext">Dorothy Hamill: I’ve had lots of disappointments. I think one of the biggest misconceptions was that once you achieve that lifelong goal at the age of 19, you think that everything is going to be easy. The road really had just begun. If I had known then what I know now, I probably wouldn’t be sitting here talking to you. After going to the Olympics and going to Worlds, I took a vacation for the first time in my life. I was just enjoying winning the gold medal. People were wining and dining me — agents and managers and endorsements and all that stuff. I was just having a great time. I showed up for my first day of ice skating at Ice Capades and I had put on a few pounds. I showed up at rehearsal and one of the line skaters went over to one of his friends and says, “Honey, if I got to skate around her, you better call me a cab.” That was my introduction to the world of professional skating. It was entirely different than what it is today, of course.</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/EYiHhbGGhfg?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_32_10_22.Still008-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_32_10_22.Still008-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/courage/">Courage</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="inputtext">I ended up in the hospital with a bleeding ulcer after six months in the ice show. I was skating 13 shows a week. I was getting up at six o’clock to do <i>AM Podunk,</i> wherever we were, and the reporters saying, “We’re not going to cover the ice show unless we can have Dorothy to interview.” And here I am: shy! What am I going to say? I have nothing to say. I’m just a dumb ice skater. If you want to ask me about ice skating, I can tell you about skating, but don’t ask me about anything else because I don’t know anything else. You know, for all the hours I trained, all the double axels I did, I didn’t go to school, I didn’t read, I didn’t learn about anything else. And it was very difficult. I was completely unhappy.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_21890" style="width: 820px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21890 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/179962_dorothy-hamill-photos05-820x1292.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21890 size-full lazyload" alt="January 14, 2010: Former Olympic figure skating gold medalist Dorothy Hamill and her daughter, Alex Forsythe." width="820" height="1292" data-sizes="(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/179962_dorothy-hamill-photos05-820x1292.jpg 820w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/179962_dorothy-hamill-photos05-820x1292-241x380.jpg 241w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/179962_dorothy-hamill-photos05-820x1292-482x760.jpg 482w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/179962_dorothy-hamill-photos05-820x1292.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">January 14, 2010: Former Olympic figure skating gold medalist Dorothy Hamill and her daughter, Alex Forsythe.</figcaption></figure><p class="inputtext">Here is something that I loved doing, but I must say, I was probably burned out from skating.</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/b8xSvn7AQ9w?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=46&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_16_16_04.Still004-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-2000-MasterEdit.00_16_16_04.Still004-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="inputtext">I didn’t really have a chance to enjoy my Olympic victory. I did for about a month before I had to go back and skate in a show. And it was a completely different way of ice skating. There was no training anymore. I was lucky if I got 45 minutes a day to practice. And I was away from my friends. Every week you’re in a different city, living in hotels. And the other thing, I was used to getting up at five o’clock in the morning and skating every day, and now I’m up till midnight skating ice shows. And for my whole life I had gotten up at five and now all of a sudden I’m trying to learn how to sleep later on the days I don’t have to do those early morning talk shows.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_22432" style="width: 1697px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-22432 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-Hamill-book-cover.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-22432 size-full lazyload" alt="wp-hamill-book-cover" width="1697" height="2512" data-sizes="(max-width: 1697px) 100vw, 1697px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-Hamill-book-cover.jpg 1697w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-Hamill-book-cover-257x380.jpg 257w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-Hamill-book-cover-513x760.jpg 513w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-Hamill-book-cover.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Dorothy Hamill, <i>A Skating Life</i></figcaption></figure><p class="inputtext">If I get up in the morning to do an early show, I try to go home and nap in the afternoon, but I can never do that. It just changed everything that I’d ever done. Professional skating is entirely different than training and competing. In the past there have been reporters that give professional skaters a bad rap. They say, ‘Well, after the Olympics they decide to do the fluffy ice shows.” It’s not, it’s just a different thing. You’re out there to entertain the audience. You’re not out there to land all your jumps without smiling and do these technical routines. The technical routines are not free and they’re not fun and they’re not beautiful, or they are in their own way. Some people criticize, “Skating’s lost its grace,” and all of that. It hasn’t. If you go see those skaters skate in exhibitions, they’re beautiful and they’re free and they’re enjoying it, but when they’re in competition it’s very serious, and technical and difficult, as it should be.</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_21888" style="width: 1240px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-21888 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/01-19-inside-Olympic-Skaters-ftr.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-21888 size-full lazyload" alt="January 2014: Figure skating superstars Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, and Kristi Yamaguchi, along with legendary short-track speed skater Apolo Ohno, in New York City’s Central Park." width="1240" height="775" data-sizes="(max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px" data-srcset="/web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/01-19-inside-Olympic-Skaters-ftr.jpg 1240w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/01-19-inside-Olympic-Skaters-ftr-380x238.jpg 380w, /web/20190103154949im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/01-19-inside-Olympic-Skaters-ftr-760x475.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190103154949/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/01-19-inside-Olympic-Skaters-ftr.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">January 2014: Figure skating superstars Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, and Kristi Yamaguchi, along with legendary short-track speed skater Apolo Ohno, in New York City’s Central Park.</figcaption></figure></body></html> </div>    <aside class="collapse" id="full-interview">    <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>When you were starting out, did you imagine that you would win a gold medal?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.</p> <p><strong>Somebody must have thought you would. Somebody must have helped you to believe in yourself.</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: I don’t think so, no. Maybe my coach in this subtle way. I had a very tough, tough, tough, tough coach in the early years. His name was Gus Lussi and his way of complimenting you and letting you know that you were doing well was by asking you to demonstrate. He was a phenomenal technician. He could teach spins the way nobody, nobody — I mean, they don’t teach kids how to spin anymore. And, he was a phenomenal jumping coach as well. So he would call me over and ask me to demonstrate. And that’s how I knew that he thought I was good.</p> <p><strong>Did you ever feel victimized by the politics, or feel that scores were unjust?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Never. I will say, a couple of times I got marks that were better than what I should I have gotten, and a couple of times I probably got marks that were lower than I should have gotten. Sometimes it’s criminal, the things that I’ve seen done, but in general it works out fairly. I wouldn’t say that there’s ever been an Olympic champion that didn’t deserve to win an Olympic gold medal.</p> <p><strong>How do you feel in a competition, Olympics or otherwise, when you’ve already skated and you’re sitting there waiting for those numbers to come up?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Relieved that it’s over. At that point I don’t even care about the numbers. You hope that they’re good, but at that point it’s just more of a relief. For me and for most of my friends it’s like, “Okay, I didn’t do this right and I didn’t do that right,” and you’re already criticizing yourself. That’s just the nature of competing with yourself.</p> <p><strong>As it must to all athletes at some point, it had to come to an end. You weren’t going to compete anymore. How hard is it to give up the limelight of competition and eventually even the touring?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Well, I still tour. It’s different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the ’80 Olympics, my parents couldn’t have afforded it. They were dry. There was nothing left, my dad was so far in debt. So when I had the opportunity to turn pro I did. I stayed on and competed at the World Championships because I never had won a World Championship. I’d always been number two: “We try harder.” But there really wasn’t any question for me that I would turn pro. I’d done as much as I could. So I turned professional and skated with Ice Capades. Today the kids make money and they’re not considered professionals. They’re still considered Olympic eligibles, so there’s never an issue whether they’re going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now.</p> <p><strong>To go back to the beginning, where did you grow up?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: I grew up in Riverside, Connecticut. It’s part of the town of Greenwich.</p> <p><strong>What was it like growing up in Riverside?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: It was wonderful. It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond. That’s when I first started to skate.</p> <p><strong>I read somewhere that in the very beginning you would take your brother’s ice skates and stuff socks in them?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Yes. I would go visit my grandparents or my aunt and uncle who had a big farm in Connecticut. And at that point I didn’t have my own skates. So we’d go someplace and everybody always had old skates lying around. And I think my brother had given my cousin a pair of skates and I had stuffed socks in the toes because they were too big. And I would go out and try and skate, either at my grandmother’s house or at my uncle’s farm. So that was really in the pond skating days. So it was before the private lessons started, or the group lessons started.</p> <p><strong>What kind of a kid were you?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Painfully shy around people I didn’t know, and a bit of an imp around people I did know. I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn’t fit in.</p> <p><strong>What made you feel like you didn’t fit in?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: I think my shyness had a lot to do with it. My brother was very gifted as a student, and my sister was very social. She had all the friends and boyfriends, and I just always felt stupid.</p> <p><strong>Do you think that affected you growing up, being the youngest of the three?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: I think it affected me in a positive way. The youngest always gets the most attention whether it’s good or bad. If you do good things, you get great attention. Also, you’re the youngest and the littlest and the cutest. But when you wanted attention you also did some pretty rotten things.</p> <p><strong>What about your parents?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: My parents didn’t have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could. My father was an engineer and he worked for Pitney Bowes, but my brother was a gifted student. He was off at prep school and Ivy League colleges, my sister was a springboard diver, and I started skating. Between my brother’s school and my ice skating lessons, even though my dad did all right, there wasn’t a lot of money to go around after all of that. My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income. Then she would teach underprivileged nursery school children. I don’t think she earned a lot of money doing that, but I think it was rewarding for her.</p> <p><strong>Did you like school?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: No. I didn’t like school at all, partly because I wasn’t very good at it. If I had a teacher that I liked, I did well. Mostly I had teachers that expected me to be brilliant like my brother and I wasn’t because it was such a small town. Brother was smart, sister was a little less smart and then I came along and I was the moron. Still am, but at least I found something that I can do.</p> <p><strong>Before you started ice skating, what did you do with your spare time? Were there any books you remember reading that were important to you?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don’t remember reading. I loved music. I loved dance. I would sing and dance on the living room floor that was my passion. I never could sleep late. I was not a sleeper. I’d be up at 4:00 o’clock in the morning. And my dad only had Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and <em>Guys and Dolls</em> and some Burl Ives thing that he’d done for Eveready Batteries. I wish I could find that record today. So I knew all the words to <em>Guys and Dolls. </em>And Glenn Miller was good for dancing, but he wasn’t really good for singing. So, that’s kind of what I grew up with.</p> <p><strong>Do you remember the first time you put on ice skates?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: I do. It was on a pond in Old Greenwich, Connecticut and I went with my sister and my neighbor, just the three of us. Well, actually my neighbor’s mother drove us. And my — often my sister and my neighbor — my neighbor was a year older than me and a year younger than my sister. So she was right in the middle — Martha. Martha and Marcia, my sister is Marcia. And they were skating backwards and they just completely left me in the dust. I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn’t help me and they went off and left me on my own. And of course, I went crying home to my mother’s. Up the hill with my skates on my shoulder, “Mom, they wouldn’t teach me how to skate backwards.” So I think I must have put on this crying thing for a long time, probably a week or so. And my mom finally said, “Okay, would you like to take some skating lessons.?” And I said, “Yes, I’d love to. I want to learn how to skate backwards.” And that’s how it started. I had some friends that actually skated before school in the mornings and they said. “Take her to Playland, Rye, New York, there’s a skating rink there. Sign her up for group lessons.” So that’s what my mom did. I started once a week in group lessons. After my eight group lessons, I got a scholarship for a free private lesson, which was 15 minutes long. It was more of a marketing tool. It was to hook you in, too. If you wanted to continue you needed private lessons. And I was hooked. I loved it.</p> <p><strong>How old were you when you started skating?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Eight-and-a-half. Compared to the kids today it was late in life, yes! Yes. It would probably be too late. Fortunately, in those days there weren’t as many skaters and I was just driven. I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn’t have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.</p> <p><strong>What do you think the teachers saw in you that made them think you had potential as an ice skater?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: I don’t really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there; I think they could see that I really enjoyed it. I wasn’t particularly athletic or gifted. I was a little chubby, but I loved it. I guess because I would — my mom would take me to the skating rink on the weekends. This is after I had gotten started. She’d drop me off for the first public session at eleven in the morning, and I’d stay there all day, and then she’d pick me up at five o’clock and take me home. So I’d be at the skating rink all day long, just skating around and around.</p> <p><strong>How long did it take you to learn how to skate backward?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Let’s see. In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn’t really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.</p> <p><strong>When did you start to think this was something you could be special at? When did you start to dream about being a skater and competing?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Some of those years are sort of muddled together for me. My mother took me to see an ice show. It was <em>Holiday on Ice </em>in New York City. It was about 1967, before Peggy Fleming won the Olympics. There were really no exhibitions then. There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won. Kids today can watch it on television, but we didn’t know there were such things as competitions. I really started dreaming about competing at the national level almost immediately after my first big competition, not just a local pond competition. I was probably 11.</p> <p><strong>You realized that you were going to have to compete in front of people and judges, despite your shyness.</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: I didn’t realize that. I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn’t see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards. That’s what skating was all about in those days. I didn’t even know where the judges sat. It’s so different now.</p> <p><strong>At some point your family had to make an important decision, didn’t they? Were they going to devote all of this time and money and energy to your ice skating, or were you going to stay in school and have a different kind of childhood?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: In those days, we had to stay in school. There was not the possibility of the way kids today cannot go to school and be a great ice skater and earn money at the same time as they’re training for the Olympics and competing at the Olympics. For me, there was never any decision. It was just what I was going to do. I know my parents, a few times they’d say, “If you’re really serious about this, if you’re really committed to this — ” Because I knew — or I didn’t know — but it was for financial reasons. For me there was never any question that I wouldn’t do it. And I guess my parents must have seen that. And also they were probably thinking, “Well, what else is she going to do?”</p> <p>When I started getting very serious about it, I would travel for competitions, and I did have to go to a tutoring school at one point because I missed some school. My coach was in New York City so I stayed in New York City during the week. I was away from home so I’d go to school in New York; that started when I was about 13. Once I got into it, it all happened very quickly. I’m having a hard time even remembering it, because it was so long ago. It really seems as though it was another lifetime.</p> <p><strong>How tough was it in the beginning? You read about people getting up at dawn to take kids to the ice skating rink. Were you getting up at 4:00 in the morning with your mother?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: My mother got up at 4:00 in the morning. I give her so much more credit today. You know, at the time I was just a kid. Well, that’s what, you know, mom is doing. She got up and she’d make breakfast for me and bring it up to me in bed and wake me up and lay my clothes out and help me put them on. And then she’d go warm up the car. You know, in the wintertime it was freezing outside. She’d go down, start the car so I’d get into a warm car. I mean, she treated me like a little princess. And it was what I wanted to do. I didn’t really — a couple of the kids asked me today, you know, “Do you feel as though you missed out on anything in childhood because of your sacrifices?” Absolutely not. I loved it. Skating was the perfect excuse not to have to go to a friend’s house, you know, for a sleep over. Not that I didn’t have friends or didn’t like my friends. I had a couple of very close friends. And I was always being invited to sleep overs and things. I just didn’t want to go. So it was the perfect excuse. And you know, I think a lot of that was the shyness. But my mom sacrificed; I didn’t sacrifice anything. I just was passionate, you know, it’s all that passion.</p> <p><strong>How did your brother and sister feel about it?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: By the time I got heavily involved in competition, my brother was away. He went to Exeter Academy, and he thought it was great, or he didn’t care. My sister actually liked it because she was in the teenage years. She was probably about 13. She loved the fact that mom wasn’t there that much. She liked that. You know how moms and daughters start to butt heads at that age. She was happy that I had mom with me and mom wasn’t on her case all the time.</p> <p><strong>It’s certainly something you couldn’t have done without the support of your family.</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Absolutely could never have done it without my family. My father was very musical. That really was his passion, but when he grew up, you know, the oldest male child wasn’t a musician. You know, they got a real job and they went to school and they got a good education. But deep down inside his love was music. And if he could have been Benny Goodman or Glen Miller! Because he had his own band, he composed music at Princeton, in school. That was his real love. So musically, my father, you know, educated me. We would sit together and listen to records and pick music for skating programs, skating routines. And so we had a very, very close relationship there. And he got weekend duty of driving me to the skating rink.</p> <p><strong>When did it first dawn on you that you could be somebody in skating, that you could win competitions?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: The first competition I ever won was the second competition I ever competed in. It was in Central Park in New York. And I remember the little girls who had perfect dresses and they had been skating for years and they all knew one another. They were all from Long Island and Manhattan and I was from Connecticut and there was nobody else that I knew. And when the scores went up on the board on the wall, they all looked at me and pointed and said, “You won!” And I was shocked because I wasn’t as good as they were. So I don’t know how I won. And I think — you know, I never liked competition ever. It was always far too nerve-wracking. But I did well, so I guess that’s why I kept doing it. And in order to get to do what I do today, I had to compete and I had to win a gold medal.</p> <p><strong>How tough was it to overcome your shyness?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: I’m still working on it. I’m much better than I was, but it was very difficult. Painful.</p> <p><strong>As much as people have written about your ice skating, they write about your personality. One would never suspect that you are shy.</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: I’m better in a one-on-one situation, but I still have moments where I absolutely freeze because I’ll be completely in awe of people. In the beginning people took it as if I was aloof or a snob or something, but I would just freeze. I felt I had nothing to say to anybody that anybody wanted to hear. And you know, what is so ironic is that by winning a gold medal, you’re thrown into the spotlight. And having that first thing after winning a gold medal, after blood doping, there’s a press conference. And all of a sudden there are swarms of reporters. And the first question that I remember somebody asking me was, “How are you going to top that?” And I thought, Jiminy Christmas! You know, a lifelong goal of mine: to win an Olympic gold medal. Well life long, from the time that I was 13 or something. And I actually did it and now they’re going to say, “How are you going to top that?” I don’t know. What do I say? Besides being painfully shy, I didn’t even — it was — I was stunned. It was just, ‘Whoa! Is this what it’s all about?” It was just not at all what I expected.</p> <p><strong>How do you deal with criticism?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Oh, I take it all far too personally. I’ve got a much thicker skin than I used to have, but I’m one of those people that just wants to be perfect and do everything good all the time and make everybody happy. It’s just not realistic.</p> <p><strong>It’s a difficult proposition, living in a world where you’re constantly being judged, isn’t it?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: It is. You’re used to being judged, but I suppose you think you’re always being judged even when you’re not.</p> <p><strong>Looking back, is there anything you’d do differently if you could do it over again?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: That’s tough to say, because I’ve learned so much from the things that I would do differently. I’m not sure I’d have the same perspective if I could go back and change the things that I shouldn’t have done. You learn from those mistakes.</p> <p><strong>What have you learned that would be important to kids today? If they came to you and said, “Dorothy, what would I have to do to do what you’ve done?”</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Hard work, perseverance, passion, those are really the nuts and bolts of it all. Don’t be afraid to fail, because we all fail. In this great game of life, you don’t know what curve ball is going to be thrown your way. With all the success and all the money that people have, everybody has problems. Life is not easy. When I won the Olympics I thought, “Oh gosh, now I’m going to be able to get my dad out of debt. I’m going to buy my mom a house.” I thought everything would be just rosy, but it had just started. All those failures build character. But I will say, one thing that my mom always taught me was to trust people, and I’ve gotten into some of the biggest problems trusting people that I should never have trusted. I guess you get a little bit cynical. I’m saying that at almost age 44. If I should live 20 years longer, I wonder how much thicker my skin will be. Still, you have to be able to trust people. That’s where I still have a hard time, when do you stop trusting? That’s a tough one.</p> <p><strong>Is it made more difficult by the fact that you have achieved some celebrity? You are an Olympic champion, someone people seek out.</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Yes. When we were young athletes we were amateurs. Recently they’ve been able to earn money as professionals. You’re sort of ripe for the picking by the sharks, the agents and the managers. You’re just fodder for them. That’s a big part of it.</p> <p><strong>As you look ahead, what do you think are the biggest challenges facing our society? What are the important things we in America are going to have to deal with in the years to come? What’s important to you?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Wow! I think of things that are important to me. I have an 11-year-old daughter and I live in Baltimore now, in the city. Children are very important. I love children. I think it’s really important that we teach our children morals, kindness, just how to get along. There’s so much crime. There’s so much ill treatment of children. It’s really scary. That’s something I think is very important because, of course, they are the future. For me, that’s a big one.</p> <p><strong>Does your daughter ice skate?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: She skates a little bit. I have not been a very good mother in that respect. I’ve always discouraged it. Only because I was driven; she’s not going to have that passion. I want her to find something that she loves, but she hasn’t found it yet. Maybe she never will, but I think it’s good to have something that you love in times of trouble. It’s carried me through a lot of tough times, skating has. It’s my release, it’s my therapy.</p> <p><strong>What does the American Dream mean to you?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: The American Dream to me is truly being able to do whatever you want to do. We’re very lucky in this country to have everything we could possibly need, the freedom to do what you want, say what you want, don’t hurt anybody. Freedom.</p> <p><strong>Freedom to skate, if that’s your passion?</strong></p> <p>Dorothy Hamill: Freedom to skate, exactly. Freedom to be one of those brilliant students, be one of those gifted scientists, to dig for dinosaurs, or make movies, sing, dance. There’s so much to learn, so much we don’t even know.</p> <p><strong>You’re terrific. Thank you. We really enjoyed that.</strong></p> <p>Thank you. 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Fox is inducted into the Academy by Olympic figure skating champion Dorothy Hamill. (© Academy of Achievement) " data-image-copyright="wordpress_fox_hamill_Academy2005_1275" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_fox_hamill_Academy2005_1275-380x296.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_fox_hamill_Academy2005_1275-760x592.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3427561837456" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_06Academy_1139.jpg" data-image-caption="Screen star Robin Williams with Olympic figure skating champion Dorothy Hamill and Research in Motion Chairman James Balsillie, developer of the BlackBerry portable email device. (© Academy of Achievement) " data-image-copyright="wordpress_06Academy_1139" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_06Academy_1139-283x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_06Academy_1139-566x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.68947368421053" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_bush_academy_1610.jpg" data-image-caption="First Lady Laura Bush receives the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award from Council member and Olympic skating champion Dorothy Hamill during the 2007 International Achievement Summit in Washington." data-image-copyright="wordpress_bush_academy_1610" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_bush_academy_1610-380x262.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_bush_academy_1610-760x524.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.625" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/01-19-inside-Olympic-Skaters-ftr.jpg" data-image-caption="January 2014: Figure skating superstars Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, and Kristi Yamaguchi, along with legendary short-track speed skater Apolo Ohno, in New York City’s Central Park." data-image-copyright="01-19-inside-olympic-skaters-ftr" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/01-19-inside-Olympic-Skaters-ftr-380x238.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/01-19-inside-Olympic-Skaters-ftr-760x475.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5049504950495" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/36143_Scott-Dorothy_038837_11-05-11_0837_DG.jpg" data-image-caption="2011: Olympic figure skating champions,Scott Hamilton and Dorothy Hamill at the Scott Hamilton and Friends Ice Show in Cleveland, Ohio. (Dan Gerda)" data-image-copyright="38837-Lindecke" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/36143_Scott-Dorothy_038837_11-05-11_0837_DG-252x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/36143_Scott-Dorothy_038837_11-05-11_0837_DG-505x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5767634854772" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/179962_dorothy-hamill-photos05-820x1292.jpg" data-image-caption="January 14, 2010: Former Olympic figure skating gold medalist Dorothy Hamill and her daughter, Alex Forsythe." data-image-copyright="179962_dorothy-hamill-photos05-820x1292" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/179962_dorothy-hamill-photos05-820x1292-241x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/179962_dorothy-hamill-photos05-820x1292-482x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5049504950495" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/7197423.jpg" data-image-caption="September 10, 2010: Figure skater Dorothy Hamill arrives at Stand Up to Cancer, held at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. (David Edwards)" data-image-copyright="at the 2010 Stand Up To Cancer, Sony Studios, Culver City, CA. 09-10-10" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/7197423-252x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/7197423-505x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/103982201.jpg" data-image-caption="September 10, 2010: An extraordinary lineup of actors, musicians, athletes and journalists banded together for Stand Up to Cancer, the groundbreaking initiative aimed at raising funds to accelerate innovative cancer research, bringing new therapies to patients quickly that will save lives now. Hamill has been cancer-free since being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008." data-image-copyright="DOROTHY HAMILL" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/103982201-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/103982201-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5079365079365" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1461015263-1975-dorothy-hamill.jpg" data-image-caption="March 1, 1975: Portrait of Olympic figure skater Dorothy Hamill of the United States before the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Tony Duffy/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="1461015263-1975-dorothy-hamill" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1461015263-1975-dorothy-hamill-252x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1461015263-1975-dorothy-hamill-504x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4990138067061" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DOROTHY-HAMILL-APPROVED-headshot.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill" data-image-copyright="dorothy-hamill-approved-headshot" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DOROTHY-HAMILL-APPROVED-headshot-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DOROTHY-HAMILL-APPROVED-headshot-507x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3523131672598" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill067.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill after winning the gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)" data-image-copyright="dorothy-hamill067" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill067-281x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill067-562x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.326352530541" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill076.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill in her technical skate at the Goodwill Winter Games, February 18, 2000. (Reuters/Peter Jones/Archive Photos)" data-image-copyright="dorothy-hamill076" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill076-287x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill076-573x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.78684210526316" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy_Hamill.jpg" data-image-caption="1977: Ice skater Dorothy Hamill during an interview. (AP Photo/File)" data-image-copyright="DOROTHY HAMILL" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy_Hamill-380x299.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy_Hamill-760x598.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.415270018622" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy_hamill-6.jpg" data-image-caption="February 17, 2011: Figure skater Dorothy Hamill attends the New York premiere of "RISE" in New York City. (Larry Busacca/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright=""RISE" New York Premiere" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy_hamill-6-269x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy_hamill-6-537x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3148788927336" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-5.jpg" data-image-caption="April 12, 2010: Ice skater Dorothy Hamill attends Good Housekeeping's 125th anniversary at the New York City Center. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Good Housekeeping 125th Anniversary" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-5-289x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-5-578x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.61813186813187" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1982.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill waves to crowds after her 1982 wedding to her first husband, Dean Paul Martin, son of Dean Martin." data-image-copyright="dorothy-hamill-1982" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1982-380x235.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1982.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.61813186813187" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1984.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill and her mother, Carolyn, in New York City in 1984. (Globe Photos)" data-image-copyright="dorothy-hamill-1984" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1984-380x235.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-1984.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.1567732115677" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill-Feet-684185.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill" data-image-copyright="dorothy-hamill-feet-684185" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill-Feet-684185-328x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill-Feet-684185-657x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.0026385224274" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill-Feet-1056893.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill" data-image-copyright="Dorothy Hamill" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill-Feet-1056893-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Hamill-Feet-1056893-758x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.625" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-ftr.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill" data-image-copyright="dorothy-hamill-ftr" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-ftr-380x238.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-ftr-760x475.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.75" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-medal.jpg" data-image-caption="1976: Dorothy Hamill wearing her gold medal at the Winter Olympics skating competition in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria." data-image-copyright="1C2DEF2C" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-medal-380x285.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamill-medal-760x570.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3333333333333" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamilton-768.jpg" data-image-caption="2009: Dorothy Hamill (Mitchell Layton)" data-image-copyright="93229845MTL_D068831012.JPG" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamilton-768-285x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dorothy-hamilton-768-570x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.78947368421053" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Tristan-Promo16.jpg" data-image-caption="2013: Dorothy Hamill as a contestant on Season 16 of "Dancing with the Stars."" data-image-copyright="dorothy-tristan-promo16" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Tristan-Promo16-380x300.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dorothy-Tristan-Promo16-760x600.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5049504950495" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/et-36143_Scott-Dorothy_038837_11-05-11_0837_DG.jpg" data-image-caption="2011: Scott Hamilton and Friends Ice Show, Cleveland, Ohio. Olympic champions Scott Hamilton and Dorothy Hamill co-hosted "Kaleidoscope on Ice" — a holiday spectacular airing on FOX on Thanksgiving Day to celebrate cancer survivorship. (Don Gerda)" data-image-copyright="38837-Lindecke" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/et-36143_Scott-Dorothy_038837_11-05-11_0837_DG-252x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/et-36143_Scott-Dorothy_038837_11-05-11_0837_DG-505x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.189358372457" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/FAO4.00080.jpg" data-image-caption="From 1970 to 1987, Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid photographs, the vast majority of which were never seen by the public. These images often served as the basis for his commissioned portraits, silk-screen paintings, drawings, and prints. (All images @ Andy Warhol Foundation)" data-image-copyright="fao4-00080" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/FAO4.00080-319x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/FAO4.00080-639x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.447619047619" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-dorothy231.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill clutches her Olympic gold medal as "The Star Spangled Banner" is played at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)" data-image-copyright="hamill-dorothy231" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-dorothy231-262x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-dorothy231-525x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2140575079872" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy395.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill" data-image-copyright="Dorothy Hamill" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy395-313x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy395-626x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill" data-image-copyright="hamill-dorothy" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-Dorothy-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4990138067061" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/hamill.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill at the 1976 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships. (LeRoy Miltner)" data-image-copyright="hamill" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/hamill-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/hamill-507x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.501976284585" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/hamill75.jpg" data-image-caption="1975: American figure skater Dorothy Hamill. (Photo by Tony Duffy/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="1975: American figure skater Dorothy Hamill. (Photo by Tony Duffy/Getty Images)" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/hamill75-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/hamill75-506x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.6953125" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/image1987.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill married singer/actor Dean Paul Martin in 1982." data-image-copyright="Dorothy Hamill married singer/actor Dean Paul Martin in 1982." data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/image1987-380x264.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/image1987.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.67631578947368" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img428.jpg" data-image-caption="Dorothy Hamill in her artistic program at the Goodwill Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York, February 19, 2000. (Reuters/Peter Jones/Archive Photos) " data-image-copyright="img428" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img428-380x257.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img428-760x514.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4757281553398" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img-dorothy-hamill_082425444874.jpg" data-image-caption="1976: Dorothy Hamill skates during the Winter Olympics competition in Innsbruck, Austria. Dorothy Hamill won the gold medal for the United States in the Womens Figure Skating competition. (Photo by Tony Duffy/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="52260922TD_ACR28070022" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img-dorothy-hamill_082425444874-257x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img-dorothy-hamill_082425444874-515x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.78552631578947" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ogilvy_20151112_0630-copy.jpg" data-image-caption="2015: Dorothy Hamill (Ogilvy)" data-image-copyright="2015: Dorothy Hamill (Ogilvy)" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ogilvy_20151112_0630-copy-380x299.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ogilvy_20151112_0630-copy-760x597.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.317157712305" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tumblr_ocs2v2aZW11r5568mo1_1280.jpg" data-image-caption="January 10, 1977: Dorothy Hamill, Olympic gold medalist, rehearses for the year’s Ice Capades at Madison Square Garden. (Tyrone Dukes/The New York Times)" data-image-copyright="tumblr_ocs2v2azw11r5568mo1_1280" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tumblr_ocs2v2aZW11r5568mo1_1280-289x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tumblr_ocs2v2aZW11r5568mo1_1280-577x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66973684210526" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/W4W-2013.jpg" data-image-caption="June 12, 2014: Dorothy Hamill at the 7th annual Dorothy Hamill Women Fore Women Golf Tournament." data-image-copyright="w4w-2013" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/W4W-2013-380x254.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/W4W-2013-760x509.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4990138067061" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-81375035-Copy.jpg" data-image-caption="January 1976: Dorothy Hamill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (John G. Zimmerman/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="USA Dorothy Hamill, Figure Skating" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-81375035-Copy-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-81375035-Copy-507x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.027027027027" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-166051956-Copy.jpg" data-image-caption="January 1975: Dorothy Hamill on the ice rink. (John G. Zimmerman (Photo by John G. Zimmerman /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Dorothy Hamill, Figure Skating" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-166051956-Copy-370x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wp-GettyImages-166051956-Copy-740x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.78421052631579" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-with-parents.jpg" data-image-caption="1974: Dorothy Hamill flying to Munich with her parents." data-image-copyright="1974: Dorothy Hamill flying to Munich with her parents." data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hamill-with-parents-380x298.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | 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Black, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/elizabeth-blackburn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-boies-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Boies</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/norman-e-borlaug/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/benjamin-c-bradlee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Benjamin C. Bradlee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sergey-brin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sergey Brin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carter-j-brown/"><span class="achiever-list-name">J. 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Carson, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-carter/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jimmy Carter</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/johnny-cash/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Cash</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/william-j-clinton/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William J. Clinton</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/francis-s-collins/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/denton-a-cooley/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Denton A. Cooley, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/francis-ford-coppola/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Francis Ford Coppola</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ray-dalio/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Dalio</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/olivia-de-havilland/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Olivia de Havilland</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/michael-e-debakey-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/michael-dell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Michael S. Dell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ron-dennis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Dennis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/joan-didion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Joan Didion</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-herbert-donald-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-doubilet/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Doubilet</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/rita-dove/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Rita Dove</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sylvia-earle/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/elbaradei/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mohamed ElBaradei</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/gertrude-elion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/larry-j-ellison/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Larry J. Ellison</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nora-ephron/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nora Ephron</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/julius-erving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Julius Erving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tony-fadell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Tony Fadell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/paul-farmer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Farmer, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/suzanne-farrell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Suzanne Farrell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/anthony-s-fauci-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sally-field/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sally Field</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lord-norman-foster/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lord Norman Foster</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/aretha-franklin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Aretha Franklin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/milton-friedman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Milton Friedman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-fuentes/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Fuentes</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/athol-fugard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Athol Fugard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ernest-j-gaines/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernest J. Gaines</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/william-h-gates-iii/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William H. Gates III</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leymah-gbowee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leymah Gbowee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-gehry/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank O. Gehry</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/murray-gell-mann-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-ghosn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Ghosn</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/vince-gill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Vince Gill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ruth-bader-ginsburg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louise-gluck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louise Glück</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/whoopi-goldberg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Whoopi Goldberg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Jane Goodall</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/doris-kearns-goodwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mikhail-s-gorbachev/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mikhail S. Gorbachev</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nadine-gordimer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nadine Gordimer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carol-greider-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol Greider, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-grisham/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Grisham</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-john-gurdon/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir John Gurdon</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dorothy-hamill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dorothy Hamill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Demis Hassabis, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lauryn-hill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lauryn Hill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-edmund-hillary/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Edmund Hillary</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/reid-hoffman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reid Hoffman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/khaled-hosseini/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Khaled Hosseini, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ron-howard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Howard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-hume/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Hume</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louis-ignarro-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/daniel-inouye/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Daniel K. Inouye</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jeremy-irons/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeremy Irons</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-irving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Irving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/kazuo-ishiguro/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Kazuo Ishiguro</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-peter-jackson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Peter Jackson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/donald-c-johanson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-m-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank M. Johnson, Jr.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/philip-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Philip C. Johnson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/chuck-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Chuck Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Earl Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/quincy-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Quincy Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/beverly-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Beverly Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dereck-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dereck Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/paul-kagame/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Kagame</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/thomas-keller-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Thomas Keller</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/anthony-m-kennedy/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony M. Kennedy</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/b-b-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">B.B. King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carole-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carole King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/coretta-scott-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Coretta Scott King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-kissinger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/willem-j-kolff/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wendy-kopp/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wendy Kopp</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-r-kravis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry R. Kravis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nicholas D. Kristof</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mike-krzyzewski/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mike Krzyzewski</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ray-kurzwell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Kurzweil</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/eric-lander-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-s-langer-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/richard-leakey/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard E. Leakey</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leon-lederman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Lederman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-lefkowitz-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Congressman John R. Lewis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/maya-lin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Maya Lin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/george-lucas/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George Lucas</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/norman-mailer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman Mailer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/peyton-manning/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peyton Manning</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wynton-marsalis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wynton Marsalis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-c-mather-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John C. Mather, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/johnny-mathis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Mathis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ernst-mayr-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/willie-mays/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willie Mays</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-mccourt/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank McCourt</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-mccullough/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David McCullough</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/audra-mcdonald/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Audra McDonald</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/admiral-william-h-mcraven/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral William H. McRaven, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/w-s-merwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">W. S. Merwin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-a-michener/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James A. Michener</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/marvin-minsky-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Marvin Minsky, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mario-j-molina-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/n-scott-momaday-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/story-musgrave/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Story Musgrave, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ralph-nader/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ralph Nader</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/peggy-noonan/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peggy Noonan</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jessye-norman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jessye Norman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190103154949/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tommy-norris/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lt. Thomas R. 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