Betty Jean Maycock Harrington (born December 13, 1942) is a former Olympic

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from

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. Maycock was a member of the American gymnastics team that placed ninth at the

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. Prior to the Olympics, she was part of the first collegiate women's gymnastics team in the United States at

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in 1959 while still a student at

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. She also won four medals at the 1959 Pan American Games. Following the Olympics, she returned to college, graduating ''

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'' from Kent State in 1964, and later earned a Ph.D. in Child Development from the

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. She was married to

Robert Sutton Harrington Robert Sutton Harrington (October 21, 1942 – January 23, 1993) was an American astronomer who worked at the United States Naval Observatory (USNO). Harrington was born near Newport News, Virginia, Newport News, Virginia. His father was an arc ...

(1942–1993) in 1976, and has two daughters, Amy and Ann. She currently works with the organization Microcredit in Africa, which implements

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1942 births Kent State University alumni Living people Sportspeople from Cleveland University of Maryland, College Park alumni American female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of the United States Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Gymnasts at the 1959 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games 21st-century American women {{US-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub