by Doug Nichols | May 13, 2019 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Craus, Polly, Domolky, George, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Funke, Erich, Halberstadt, Hans, Magay, Daniel, Mayer, Helene, Nadi, Aldo, Orley, Piller, George, Shurtz, Skip |
As many times as I’ve mentioned the Halberstadt Scrapbooks on this website over the years, I was shocked to realize that I have not, until now, written a defining story about what they are and (to me, at least) their significance. Today you can stop in at just about...
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 adminGreg | Feb 19, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Domolky, George, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Magay, Daniel, Marki, Ferenc, Orley, Piller, George |
Daniel Magay was a member of the Olympic Gold medal winning Hungarian sabre team at the 1956 Melbourne games. Along with many other Hungarian athletes who wished to escape re-occupation of Hungary by the Soviet Union, which happened while the Olympics were underway,...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 13, 2015 | Biagini, Gerard, Blog Post, California, Coaches, Coaches P - T, Domolky, George, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Magay, Daniel, National Tournament, Orley, Piller, George, Tournaments |
The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco is perched at the top of swanky Nob Hill. One of the premiere hotels in the city, it opened in 1907 after an extensive refurbishing of the damage done by the 1906 earthquake to the about-to-open Beaux-Arts building. Famed...
by Doug Nichols | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches P - T, Domolky, George, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Magay, Daniel, Orley, Piller, George |
Tomas Orley was one of the leaders of the student protests that sparked the Hungarian revolution of 1956 that eventually saw Soviet tanks storm into the country and forcibly return the control of the country to communist hands. The 1954 Junior World Sabre Champion,...