by adminGreg | Jan 11, 2015 |
Jan York Romary Janice Lee York Romary competed at 6 Olympic Games and was 10 times the US National Women’s Foil Champion. At both the 1952 and 1956 Olympics, she finished in 4th place. She began her fencing career at a young age under the tutelage of Ralph...
by adminGreg | Jan 16, 2015 |
Peter Schifrin Peter Schifrin grew up in Southern California and began fencing at the age of 13 under the tutelage of Mel North. He was twice Junior National Champion in epee and also a medalist in foil. In 1977 he began his collegiate studies at San Jose State...
by adminGreg | Jan 11, 2015 |
Skip Shurtz Sewall “Skip” Shurtz was born in Texas and raised in Hollywood by his single stage-parent mother. Very poor, Skip’s grandmother did the cleaning at Ralph Faulkner’s Falcon Studios in exchange for Ralph giving lessons to the...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 7, 2020 |
Al Snyder Al Snyder began fencing as a freshman at Stanford University in 1931. He had lost his right arm in an accident at the age of 5 from a shotgun blast during celebrations for the end of the First World War. At Stanford, he excelled in fencing, making the...
