by Doug Nichols | May 12, 2015 | Biagini, Gerard, Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Craus, Polly, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Mitchell, Maxine, Nadi, Aldo, Publications |
After a week’s hiatus, I return to the WCFA with another new story about old stuff! (And between us, the combination of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival matched with moving house is not a recommendation I can endorse for others who wish to keep both their...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 6, 2015 | Angell, Tommy, Blog Post, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Moore-Selberg, Julie, Tournaments, Tournaments 1961 - 1970 |
I only ever saw Julie (Moore) Selberg fence sabre. This would have been in the late ‘70’s, early ‘80’s, before there was a National Championship for Women’s Sabre. Now, of course, we have women fencing all three weapons, as is only right. Jeez, was it really so...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog Post, Bradford, Vinnie, Burchard, Peter, California, Clark Skillman, Laurel, Ellingson,Joy, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Metkus, Andrea, National Tournament, Tournaments, Tournaments 1981 - 1990 |
The Fencing Center of San Jose, CA, was the brainchild of a group of fencers from Michael D’Asaro’s program at San José State University who enlisted the help of a group of interested adults and parents in the endeavor to create a viable club in the heart of the...
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 18, 2015 | Baker, Jack, Biagini, Gerard, Blog Post, California, Coaches K - O, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers F - J, Fencers K - O, Huddleson, Demi, Marki, Ferenc, Mitchell, Maxine, National Tournament, Need Help, Tournaments, Tournaments 1961 - 1970 |
Harold Hayes of The Pacific Fencing Club on Alameda Island, Oakland, CA has been a generous contributor of cool things for the Archive. Among other things, he transferred possession of two long boxes of material he received from Mary “Demi” Huddleson, past editor of...
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