Carl was a part of an amazing era in the Newton High track program. Newton won seven Class A state championships in the 1950’s. Carl was the outdoor state champion in his junior year of 1954 and both the indoor and outdoor state champion his senior year of 1955. Carl was the captain of the state champion Newton High track team in 1955, graduating as a proud member of both the national honors society and the chemistry club. Carl Shine arrived at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1955. Carl won nearly every local competition he entered, winning five out of six possible conference titles in the Heptagonal Association. He was only the second athlete in conference history to win all three indoor shot put titles. He won the Penn Relays shot put for the home team in both 1958 and 1959 with the second farthest throw in meet history, as well as both the indoor and outdoor IC4A titles in 1959. His 1959 season culminated in a school record of 58’9 ½,” still the record today, the NCAA championship, and Penn’s Class of 1915 award, given annually to the best student athlete at the university. After graduating from Penn, Carl would add advanced degrees in electrical engineering and go on to a successful career at Digital Computing.
Class: 1955 Inducted: 2019