Stanley Gondek, track star and construction executive

Stanley E. Gondek, 62, of Wynnewood, a construction firm executive who was a prep-school track star, died of pancreatic and liver cancer April 8 at Bryn Mawr Hospital.

Mr. Gondek, a 1964 graduate of Malvern Preparatory School, excelled as a multiple-event sprinter.

In 1963 and 1964, his son Gregory said, Mr. Gondek earned medals for winning the 220- and 440-yard events at the Inter-Academic League competition, as well as for being part of Malvern's mile-relay team.

At the Penn Relays in 1963 and 1964, his son said, Mr. Gondek earned medals on the Inter-Academic mile-relay team.

And at the 1964 Inquirer Games, he was on the prep school relay team that won a bronze medal, his son said.

"Stan was awarded a scholarship to Villanova," his wife, Geneva, said. "Unfortunately, the paperwork never got to where it needed to be."

So, she said, he studied at Biscayne College near Miami, taught by the Augustinian order of priests, who teach at Villanova University.

After some studies there, she said, "he came back up here and got into the family business, and completed the studies he needed" to graduate from Villanova in 1979.

A master plumber since finishing his apprenticeship in 1974, he worked at his family's P. Gormley Co., rising to secretary-treasurer by the time it closed in 1997.

He then was a project manager for Tracey Mechanical Inc. of Newtown Square until his recent illness.

Besides his wife of 39 years and son, Mr. Gondek is survived by another son, Kevin; daughters Deborah, Susan and Jennifer; a brother; and three grandchildren.

Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at the D'Anjolell Memorial Home of Broomall, 2811 West Chester Pike, where a prayer service will begin at 8:15.