Going for the Gold

HP employee Margaret Bailes showed off the gold medal she won in the 400-meter relay race two decades earlier at the 1968 Summer Olympics. “It didn’t really hit me that this was the Olympics and we set a world record until we were on the victory stand receiving our gold medals and listening to the ‘Star Spangled Banner’,” said Bailes, who was a 17-year-old high school junior at the time. She also finished fourth in the 100 meters and placed seventh in the 200 meters at the event. Following her athletic career, Bailes became a dealer support representative at HP’s Personal Computer Distribution Center in San Jose in the late 1980s.