by Doug Nichols | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, D'Asaro, Michael, Fencers, Fencers F - J, Johnson, Stacey, Okawa, Heziburo, Selberg, Charles |
Ah, San Jose, California in the summer. In the late 70’s, that meant two things: heat and smog. However, for a few years it also meant fencing at the University! Sometime prior to the summer of 1977, Michael D’Asaro and Charles Selberg devised a plan to create a...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 4, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, D'Asaro, Michael, Need Help |
Let’s see a show of hands. Who here can read Polish? I can’t. I can pick out a word or two here, like “szable” for “sabre” and “Zablocki” for “Wojciech Zablocki”, the great Polish sabre fencer. A few other names. That’s about it for me. Polish news...
by Doug Nichols | May 21, 2015 | Blog Post, Burchard, Peter, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, D'Asaro, Gay, D'Asaro, Michael, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Marx, Michael, Massialas, Greg, Need Help, O'Brien, William, San Jose State University, Schools/Clubs, Selberg, Charles, Tournaments, Tournaments 1971-1980, Tournaments 1981 - 1990 |
Continuing on with the same topic as our last post, we return again to the Women’s Gymnasium at San Jose State University. There have been a number of comments from the previous set with some corrections that I’ll tweak when I get a second – thanks for the notes,...
by Doug Nichols | May 18, 2015 | Blog Post, California, Coaches, Coaches A - E, D'Asaro, Michael, Fencers, Fencers F - J, Fencers K - O, Johnson, Stacey, Massialas, Greg, Need Help, Northern California, San Jose State University, Schools/Clubs, Tournaments |
I’ve got two sets of pictures from the same event, courtesy of the Charles and Julie Selberg collection of fencing memorabilia. One set is black & white film, the other color slides. Today, in photo essay form, I present the best of the color slides. I can...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, D'Asaro, Michael, Nottingham, Jack, Schools/Clubs, Selberg, Charles, Tournaments, Tournaments 1961 - 1970 |
The Airolimax californicus, more commonly known as the Banana Slug, is the official mascot of the sporting students of the University of California, Santa Cruz. You may hear the name shouted to cheer on UCSC students, as in “Go Slugs!” If you can say anything about...
by Doug Nichols | Mar 16, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, D'Asaro, Michael, McDougall, John |
There are a number of versions of the story behind Michael D’Asaro the Elder’s decision to follow the advice put forth at 1967’s Human Be-In by Timothy Leary. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out) The short version, the one I like best, is that he...
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