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Wendy Hicks Stockwell
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Wendy, darling–we wanted you to accept your Hall of Fame Award in person. But it’s as if you disappeared with Hook and the Crocodile into Never-Never Land! Still, we remember that Gene Lee never coached a prettier or more popular Santa Barbaran. You were smart, too, had a head for the…
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Manny Moskowitz
Courtesy of Tim Boggan During the 1929-30 season, the first New Jersey Men’s Championship was won, not by 12-year-old Manny Moskowitz, but by one, Fred C. George, over another George, George Schissel. Since, seven decades later, the Sport has such winning veteran players as George Hendry and George Brathwaite, it might not come as much…
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Mary McIlwain
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Mary competed in her first National’s…well, a long time ago. And she’s always enjoyed writing about and being among the good players. She had an article on Lou Pagliaro in the Oct., 1941 Topics–and I’m sure she remembers giving exhibitions with him as well as with Jimmy McClure, Doug Cartland, and…
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Yvonne Kronlage
Courtesy of Tim Boggan 2013 Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient In her 1985 USTTA Executive Committee Election Campaign Statement, Yvonne Kronlage showed very clearly her disillusionment at the continued passionate effort she’s made, and will continue to make, to further the sport, but always with so little personal recognition. She feels she’s so often…
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Steve Isaacson
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Back in the 1950’s, Chicago’s Steve Isaacson was twice U.S. Intercollegiate Table Tennis Champion—and, at the same time, uniquely, U.S. Intercollegiate Bowling Champion. Four decades later, at the Illinois Senior Olympics he was being named Outstanding Senior Amateur All-Around Athlete in Illinois. At last count he’d won 40-some Illinois State Table…
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Davida Hawthorn
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Davida Hawthorn, 1945 U.S. Women’s Singles Champion, learned her table tennis at what is probably, historically, the most famous Club in U.S. table tennis–Herwald Lawrence’s Broadway Courts in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Lawrence, a West Indian, had infinite patience as a teacher, and his number one protege was David Hawthorn,…
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Jack Howard
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Yep, you could read about it in the morning paper: “‘It was definitely an upset,’ Bobby Gusikoff, 26, said, still sweating and breathing hard after trying to keep up with Jack Howard’s bustling-type running game. ‘And a surprise. I’ve played him hundreds of times and he’s never beaten me. He sure…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States