Evelyn Furtsch was awarded a gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay with teammates Mary Carew, Annette Rogers and Wilhelmina von Bremen at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. They broke both the Olympic and world record.

During her Junior year at Tustin High School, a gym teacher noticed that she ran very fast. It was brought to the attention of Tustin High School track coach, Vincent Humeston where she was soon training and running with the boys track team. At the time, only big cities and big city schools had organized women's track & field.

As a Tustin High School graduate Evelyn was the first athlete in Orange County to win an Olympic gold medal.
When she turned 100 in April 2014, she becoming the first female Olympic champion in athletics to live for a
century and the first female American Olympic gold medalist to do so

She passed on March 5, 2015. Having worked and helped at the Tustin Area Historical Society.

In her honor, I asked the Tustin Area Historical Society to established the Evelyn Furtsch Track & Field Scholarship, to be awarded to one girl and one boy who are Tustin High School graduating seniors planning to attend a two or four year college, university, or trade school in the fall of 2017.

Pete Beatty, TAHS President, friend and admirer.