by adminGreg | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog Post, Fencers, Massialas, Greg, Nonomura, George |
At last year’s Nationals in San Jose, I was able to sit down with George Nonomura and chat about his fencing career. Now, George is, and has always been, one of the nicest, friendliest people around. So when I posed the question about who might have been his nemesis...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, De Jong, Duris, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Mayer, Helene |
So says, more or less, this article from a San Francisco area newspaper, dated November of 1934: The woman to beware of is, as mentioned, the great Helene Mayer. To say that her competitive record is impressive is an understatement. Olympic Gold Medal at the age of...
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 | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog Post, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Nonomura, George |
We caught up with George Nonomura at the US Nationals this past summer. I’ll let George take it from here:...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog Post, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Mitchell, Maxine, Shurtz, Skip |
Well, I’m on a roll with this footage, so I’m just going to keep on going. We’re back at the 1958 Pacific Coast Championships. This time out, we’ve got the Women’s Foil Finals, pitting Olympic teammates Janice Lee York-Romary against Maxine Mitchell. Jan Romary...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog Post, California, Fencers K - O, Magay, Daniel, Tournaments |
As we here at The Archive continue to mine the amazing things found in the trove acquired from Heizaburo Okawa, I find myself drawn to the filmed elements we had transferred to digital. Like a lot of home movies shot in the days of yore, often the camera was loaded up...