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The Fencers Club was founded in 1883 by Charles de Kay and other New Yorkers. [2] [3] [4] One had to be in the Social Register to be a member. [5]Its first fencing master was Captain Hippolyte Nicolas, a French officer who had fought in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, who was partial to the Italian school of fencing.
After first giving free fencing lessons to underserved youths in Manhattan, in 1991, he partnered with the Fencers Club of Manhattan to launch the Peter Westbrook Foundation, with reported ...
Peter Jonathan Westbrook (April 16, 1952 – November 29, 2024) was an American saber fencer.He was a 13-time national and 3-time Pan American Games saber champion, five-time Olympian, and an Olympic bronze medalist.
Reckling's ties to fencing are deep. She is board president of Fencers Club, established in 1883, which bills itself as "the oldest continuously existing organization in the Western Hemisphere ...
Club: Salle Santelli and the Fencers Club: Robert Max Blum (November 24, 1928 – November 27, 2022) was an American Olympic fencer. Early and personal life.
In the early 1970s, he coached at the Fencers Club. [2] He was the head fencing coach at NYU from 1975 to 1977, and led the team to the 1976 NCAA Championship. [12] In 1977 he coached the fencing team at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, New York City. [26] Starting in 2011 and through at least 2016, he coached Teaneck High School.
In 1938, she won the Amateur Fencers League of America's San Francisco Division men's title; however, two days later she was stripped of the title, as the League adopted a rule banning competition between women and men, stating that since fencing involved physical contact, "a chivalrous man found it difficult to do his worst when he faced a ...
However, he continued fencing at the Fencers Club in his free time, and took lessons for several years from Hall of Famer Michel Alaux. [4] [5] Two years later, he was a 1963 Pan American Games team member. [5] Around age 30, Melcher "finally broke through as a top fencer," when he defeated the world's No. 1 fencer in the 1970 Martini Épée ...