by Doug Nichols | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog Post, Bradford, Vinnie, Carnighan, Len, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, D'Asaro, Gay, D'Asaro, Michael, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Massialas, Greg, Northern California, Okawa, Heziburo, San Jose State University, Schools/Clubs, Selberg, Charles |
It’s impossible to know why these things happen. They can’t be planned for or expected yet I’ve been experiencing more than my share of these types of events since starting this archive and I couldn’t be happier about it. This is simply the latest. I hope talking...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 22, 2019 | Alpar, Julius Palffy-, Biagini, Gerard, Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Magay, Daniel, McDougall, John, Northern California, Nottingham, Jack, Schools/Clubs, Selberg, Charles, UC Berkeley |
Some months ago, I paid a visit to UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library to look at a collection of scrapbooks donated to the library upon the passing of long-time Cal fencing master Julius Palffy-Alpar. Harold Hayes of the Pacific Fencing Club had told me of their...
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...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 11, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Domolky, George, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers F - J, Fencers K - O, Funke, Erich, Greco, Anthony, Halberstadt, Hans, Huddleson, Demi, Magay, Daniel, Mayer, Helene, Orley, Piller, George, Selberg, Charles |
San Francisco State University was founded as the “San Francisco State Normal School”. Take that, all you who believe the City By The Bay to be populated by nothing but the socially irregular! SF State has been graduating the scholarly since 1901 and has a proud...
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 | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches P - T, Selberg, Charles |
Rather than making things suspenseful, as in, “How will I ever learn how to fence properly if the West Coast Fencing Archive doesn’t continue to post more of the Selberg Instructional Series?!” sort of suspense, I’ve opted for stringing the next three installments...
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