by adminGreg | Jan 16, 2015 |
Hans Halberstadt The scion of a wealthy German family with manufacturing interests, Hans Halberstadt took up the sport of fencing as a young man in his home town of Offenbach en Main. He competed for Germany at the 1924 Olympic Games on the epee and sabre teams and in...
by Doug Nichols | Nov 7, 2019 |
Buzz Hurst Edwin “Buzz” Hurst is a long-time Fencing Master and was an All-American fencer for the Naval Academy. He finished 2nd at the 1962 NCAA championships before starting a 6-year stint as a Naval aviator, with part of that duty consisting of taking off and...
by adminGreg | Jan 11, 2016 |
Arthur Lane Arthur Lane learned and taught fencing in the San Francisco, area and was an avid researcher of the local history of the sport. He began his fencing with Hans Halberstadt after a stint in the Army. He fenced locally and had some success but seemed more...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 1, 2020 |
Ferenc Marki Ferenc Marki was a Hungarian trained fencing master from the Toldi-Miklos military academy, in the same graduating class as Julius Palffy-Alpar and Istvan Danosi. A native of Szeged, he established a very successful club there, training Junior World sabre...
by adminGreg | Jan 12, 2015 |
John McDougall John McDougall took up fencing while attending Stanford University in the mid-1950s. He decided early on that he would dedicate his life to the sport and focused on becoming a fencing master. He opened his first fencing club, the San Francisco School of...
