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Connie Sweeris
Courtesy of Tim Boggan It’s the summer of 1956, Grand Rapids is having a Summer Open, and who makes her first appearance in Topics, losing a well-played –18, -16, -20 match to Doris Chmielewski, but Grand Rapids Club President Bob Stace’s daughter, already a little local star, Connie Stace. That fall, Connie, only 9, on…
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Cy Sussman
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Samuel “Sy” (later “Cy”) Sussman, born Oct. 13, 1922, started playing table tennis in 1935 at the 92nd St. YMHA in New York City, as Sol Schiff and others had before him, under the tutelage of George Schein. By 1936 he was good enough to travel down to Philadelphia and win…
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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…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States