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John Read
Courtesy of Tim Boggan John Read rose from near anonymity as a N.Y. player and sometime casual t.t.-in-group poker player, almost a groupie at Lawrence’s, to become for many years the Association’s Ranking Chair, USTTA E.C. member, and Captain and Manager of many U.S. Teams both at home and abroad. Though John of course enjoyed…
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Tom Miller
Courtesy Tim Boggan For the last quarter of a century, 2001 USATT Hall of Fame Inductee Tom Miller of Livermore, California has become progressively more and more involved in local, regional, national, and finally international table tennis. First, Tom was an enthusiastic player–so much so that by 1981 he was President of his local Tri-Valley…
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George “Gus” Kennedy
Courtesy of Tim Boggan George “Gus” Kennedy first comes into the pages of the USTTA magazine in a photo from the Nov., 1970 Tamasu Butterfly Table Tennis Report. What, you may well ask, was a picture of Gus and those other Minnesotans—Chris Faye, Alan Goldstein, Charlie Disney, and Doug Maday—doing in that Japanese magazine? Well,…