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Picture Day!

by Doug Nichols | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches U - Z, Vince, Joseph

It was graduation week for my schooled-by-Zoom High School Senior son this week, so I thought I’d put together an album of the best of the magazine covers featuring fencing from the Archive collection.

Stories as an Additive Process

by Doug Nichols | May 25, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Craus, Polly, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers P - T, Schools/Clubs, Shurtz, Skip, Southern California

Back in December, I took a trip through Southern California to do some research, have conversations, scan a scrapbook and collect some fencing memorabilia. It was an extremely successful tour.

Fencing and Wine, 1982

by Doug Nichols | May 18, 2020 | Blog Post, Burchard, Peter, Calvert, Delmart, Clark Skillman, Laurel, Coaches, D'Asaro, Gay, D'Asaro, Michael, Ellingson,Joy, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Massialas, Greg, Northern California, San Jose State University, Schifrin, Peter, Schools/Clubs, The Fencing Center

Ever wondered who has the “fencing.com” URL? Yup, it’s the Silicon Valley original, The Fencing Center. Proximity and foresight; a powerful combination. The past two weeks of “Shelterinplace Con – 2020” have been all about San Jose’s The Fencing Center.

Unexpectedly More

by Doug Nichols | May 11, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches P - T, Selberg, Charles

It keeps happening. Coincidence where it’s entirely unexpected. My good friend Terrence Gargiulo says it’s because I’m in the right place, doing the right things. He’s smarter than me and more spiritual, so I’ll take his words at face value.

Multimedia and Instruction

by Doug Nichols | May 4, 2020 | Blog Post, Calvert, Delmart, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Marki, Ferenc, Selberg, Charles

It’s an interesting time for fencing coaches and clubs, as everyone tries to grapple with maintaining some level of instruction for their students during a global pandemic. The reach of technology in our lives today makes it easy to deliver, but that wasn’t always the case.

Helene Mayer by Romaine

by Doug Nichols | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Funke, Erich, Halberstadt, Hans, Mayer, Helene

After spending the better part of this week running down stories that haven’t yet fully revealed themselves, I thought I’d revisit one of my many favorite subjects: Helene Mayer. There are a lot of photographs of Ms. Mayer out there, but several of the following are, I believe, unique to the interwebs until now.