by Doug Nichols | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Funke, Erich |
I’ve been reviewing various possibilities for scanning the wonderful scrapbook of Erich Funke d’Egnuff that was gifted to The Archive by longtime Letterman fencer Marc LeRoux. (See: here) It’s proving to be a rather tricky proposition. The date range of the...
by Doug Nichols | May 29, 2018 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Fencers, Fencers P - T, Greco, Anthony, Halberstadt, Hans, Shurtz, Skip, Snyder, Al |
A little over a year ago, I had a wonderful introduction to San Francisco’s Olympic Club and the club’s historian, facilitated by a couple of OC members, Chuck Lucasey and David Wessel. They are trying to re-emphasize fencing at the OC and asked me to lunch to help...
by Doug Nichols | May 23, 2018 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Fencers, Fencers F - J, Fencers K - O, Halberstadt, Hans, Huddleson, Demi, Mayer, Helene |
Having not one, but two, Helene Mayer trophies land in The Archive recently seems to have been a precursor to a small ‘golden age’ of incoming H. Mayer material that I can’t explain in any way that I can explain, but I’m happy for the good fortune. But before I make...
by Doug Nichols | Aug 8, 2017 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, De Jong, Duris, Funke, Erich, McDougall, John, O'Brien, William |
Not the buried in the sand pirate-type I always dreamed of unearthing in the Southern California former orange-grove backyard where I grew up. My treasure hunting has been refined to a sharper focus that has proven no less fortunate to me than those who find...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Halberstadt, Hans, Mayer, Helene |
I’ve been perusing the pages of “The California Fencer”, later just “The Fencer”, a West Coast publication that circulated for a few years following WW2 and prior to the start of the national American Fencer magazine. I’ve written about it before, but in short,...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Coaches U - Z, D'Asaro, Michael, Doug's Stories, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Halberstadt, Hans, Mayer, Helene, McDougall, John, Mitchell, Maxine, Mori, Torao, Okawa, Heziburo, Selberg, Charles, Vince, Joseph |
Fear. That’s the thing. It’s a motivator for me. Not the average, everyday kind of fear, nor an amorphous fear of zombies or clowns. Rather, the fear of loss. A very specific kind of loss. The loss of fencing history. I don’t know why it gets to me so much, but it...
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