(Editor’s note: Sol Marshall, who will cover the Olympic Games for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in earlier years coached championship municipal and Jewish Center volleyball teams in Milwaukee, Atlanta and Chicago. He was manager of the volleyball teams at the Westside Jewish Community Center in L.A. which won the national AAU and USVBA and JWB titles during his tenure. He was manager of the U.S. volleyball team in the 1961, 1965 and 1969 Maccabiah Games. Marshall also was a sports writer in Atlanta and Milwaukee before serving as PR director for the Jewish Centers Association of L.A. for 18 years.)
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