Sussex County Amateur Athletic Association have been pretty lucky in being able to call on some impressive administrators, in various positions, since it was formed in 1923 and from the 1930s through to the late 50s Vic Bratley and Dick Webb gave tremendous service when it was a single sex body and the General Secretary also took the arduous task as Championship secretary.
Vic Bratley was a good class club athlete with the Sussex Walking and later Brighton Athletic Cubs, was very much an all-rounder. He was for many years the only athlete to represent the County as a middle distance track and Cross-country runner as well as well as race walker and was a Senior A.A.A coach at the same time as carrying out administrative duties. He was tragically killed in a road crash in 1964.
Dick, a few years younger, was an international class sprinter who was listed as an Olympic Possible for the Tokyo Games of 1940, which never happened, was also the County and Championship Secretary, a Senior A.A.A coach and was for 21 years the Executive Chairman. He was also a leading track referee frequently presiding over National and International meetings at White City and Crystal Palace.
Joining these two greats for sheer length of service and expertise at least must be the Horsham Blue Star Harrier Keith May who was born on the nineteenth March 1947 when these two were very much Sussex Athletics.
Keith was a more than useful middle distance runner whose attempts to win a Sussex title were thwarted many times by Olympian and British half-mile British record holder Chris Carter. He eventually took the 800m title in 1973 at Withdean. He placed second several times and his fastest ever 
400 metres of 49.9s. was recorded at the Sussex championships at Withdean in 1972, also second to Carter who just pipped him on the post. Both clocked the same time which is still a Horsham Club record.
He also ran in the inaugural London Marathon in 1981 in a useful 2:49:07 and would place him fairly high amongst Sussex runner even today.
Between 1968 and 1976, at a time when the Stock Exchange held high class Annual Championships, usually in London he was virtually king of the Middle Distance events and won the 800m 7 times between 1968 & 1975 and also won over 400m & 1500m on several occasions.
He was also the man to watch at the annual Stock Exchange Cross-county championships and took that title five times between 69 and 76.
In 1975 Keith married Sue Kuruber who has been of great support to him and athletics, organising the Officials refreshments at the County 
championships for more than a decade and usually at his side at athletic meetings.
Sue was not an athlete when young but trained with Keith and ran in the first London Marathon finishing in 4:07:09 but cracked the four hour at the Rochford Marathon in Essex the following year clocking 3:53 which is a considerable achieved the following year.
Keith never really retired from racing and he managed to continue to race when he took over the Secretaryship of the Horsham club from John Linfield in 1985, who had held the post for 14 years. 1971. Keith also was secretary for many years before being elected to the Southern Counties A.A. having been the Sussex representative of its predecessor, “Southern Committee”
He was also to serve on the “UK member Council” for nine years and he is still, in 2020, serving on “England South East Regional Council”, and was for many years the Chairman of the Southern Women’s Track & Field League.
In 2012 he won the England Athletics Services to Athletics National Award at their Annual awards evening and also won The Torch Trophy Award in the same year presented to him by the Duke of Kent.
Keith has served the Sussex County for nearly fifty years and only two people have served longer than Keith on the Sussex County Association Executive committee.
In 1997 Keith became the first Sussex Athletics Administrator and I think that Sussex was the first County Association to make such an appointment. He set up the post and after five years he handed over to John Linfield, who had handed over to him as Horsham Club Secretary many years before.
Probably his most arduous task was to organise the Sussex Track and Field championships for both sexes for twenty two years from 1994 to 2016 and this included the Combined Events Championships at Broadbridge Heath and K.2, which he continued to organise for another decade.
In recognition of his service to the County he was elected President of the Association from 1992 till 1994.
Keith’s best times are 400m. 49.9s. in 1972 in the Sussex Championships at Withdean. -800m.1: 52.9s also in 1972 in the heats of the Southern Championships at the Crystal Palace. – 1500m. 4:00.4s behind Matt Paterson and Peter Witcomb at the Sussex Senior championships at Withdean in 1974.
Still very active on the Sussex Executive there is no one who has really done more the County Association.