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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,…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
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