Peter Devine, 1996 US Olympic foilist, has donated his Atlanta Olympics warm-up jacket.

3-time US Epee champion and Olympian Jon Normile has donated his '92 Barcelona warm-up suit, tank top and US Olympic blazer.

Ted Katzoff, fencing master at Beverly Hills Fencing Club, founder of Westside Fencing Center and Head Coach at Harvard / Westlake School, has donated original photos of Hollywood's Olympian, Ralph Faulkner and his wife, Edith Jane Faulkner as well as the memorial plaque for Edith Jane which originally lived at the Hollywood Boulevard Faulkner Studios, and Ralph Faulkner's US Fencing Hall of Fame award.

Byron Krieger, the Midwest's legendary 3-weapon champion and 2-time Olympian has donated a wonderful collection of photos of him and his wife Jocelyn Ruth Krieger, Byron's 1952 Olympic robe, warm-up jacket from 1956 Olympics, and warm-up suit from the 1957 Maccabi Games. 

Robert Van Der Wege, former Head Coach of Minnesota Excalliber Fencing club has donated an historical scrapbook of Minnesota fencing history with many photos of Ferdinand Uebel, the father of Minnesota fencing.

Max Garret, Hall of Fame Coach, and his wife Diana have given the Museum many plaques and awards from City College 1939, University of Illinois Big 10 champions, Penn State, Israel National Fencing Team,State of Florida, the St. Louis Division, the Andrei Spitzer Memorial, the  N.C.A.A., the  U.S. Fencing/Helms Hall of Fame, 1970 World Championships and more.  We also thank Mac and Diana's daughter Esther Garret Solar and her husband Gary Solar. 

Joe Pechinsky, the Hall of Fame coach from the Tanner City Fencing Club in Peabody, Massachusetts has donated his black leather jacket to the Museum. 

We wish to thank 6-time Olympian, 2-time Olympic finalist, 10-time US foil champion Janice York Romary, her husband Chuck Romary, and their daughter Lisa Romary Mosher for their enormous donation of original photos, awards, certificates, uniforms (including an orange fencing uniform used to teach Steve Allen on his television show in the 1950's) letters, books and posters. 

Jason Rogers, 2004 and 2008 US Saber Olympian from Los Angeles, has donated his 2004 Olympic uniform and Team-USA warm-up jacket.

George Kolombatovich, the Columbia University Coach and Olympic Referee, donated his 1984 Olympic tie and 1992 Olympic referee blazer.

Cathy McClellan, 2-time US Epee champion and 2008 US Fencing Hall of Fame inductee, donated her Zivkovic lexan mask.

Donna Stone donated a 1960 Olympic pin from Evelyn Terhune, and two posters from Salle Santelli. 

George Masin donated a medal for the 1913 Women's Junior Foil, from Mrs. Max H. Biernbaum.

7 of US foil Olympian Nat Lubell's medals have been purchased from Jerry Harmyk of Glen Ridge, NJ. 

2-time US Epee champion Leslie Marx has made another donation including: photos,"the little gold scarf that was handed out to athletes at the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Olympics for us to wave around.  There is my wristband from the Olympics.  There is a gold participant pin from 1996 and a pager -- everyone on the 1996 Olympic team got one and an issue of Time Magazine."

The Museum purchased a very reasonably priced antique fencing mask (circa 1880) from Jon and Leslie Waltz of Dousman, Wisconsin.

We purchased the 1994 Spalding Fencing Guide from Jon S. Richmond in San Antonio, Texas.

2-time US Epee champion Leslie Marx has made a cash donation of $50 to our Museum and she has donated 2 warm-up suits;  one she wore at 1995 Pan American Games where she won the gold in women's epee and the women's epee team gold against Cuba. The other is from the 1992 Women's Epee World Championships in Cuba.  

Maurice Kamhi eliminated Olympic champion Ion Drimba in 2 straight DE bouts at the '69 Martini & Rossi International wearing the lame he has donated to the Museum that was hand made for him by Santelli teammate Bobby Russell (1965 US foil champion).

2-time USFA President Steve Sobel for donating his official US Olympic Sports Committee Fencing patch, 2 portrait photos and the brilliant advertisement that helped him to become the 22nd President.  

Donna Stone, 3-time US Epee champion and 5th in World championships 1989, for her gift of full set of equipment including weapon, mask, shoes, Santelli USA bathrobe, '89 US team warm-up, mask, uniform, and bag. 

4-time US foil champion Cliff Bayer for donating his '96 Atlanta Olympics All-star fencing jacket and 2 Olympic dress ties (1 from the '96 Atlanta Games and 1 from the 2000 Sydney Games)

7-time US saber champion Tibor Nyilas donated an autographed photo to our Museum.

USFCA Historian Jeffrey Tishman generously gave us a copy of his book on the Olympics along with some rarely seen family portraits.

2-time US foil champion (1994, 1995) and Olympian , Ann Marsh, kindly took the time for a recorded interview about her incredible career.

Nicholas Roosevelt (Nicholas Roosevelt Sr. invented the steamboat) of Oxford, Pennsylvania for sending a photo of the famous portrait painter and fencer, Samuel Montgomery Roosevelt, who served as President of the New York Fencers' Club in 1896.

Mr. Ormonde DeKay of  N.Y.C. & George Colman DeKay of  Stonington, Connecticut (grandsons of Charles deKay) ; Dr. Joseph Rodman Drake Dekay (great-grandson of Charles deKay) of Hiram, Maine;  Mr. Rodman Dekay of Deer Isle, Maine for their donations of biographical, literary and photographic data on NY Fencers' club founder Charles deKay who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008 in San Jose, California.

We thank Vivian Heremans Moekle of Los Angeles, daughter of Jean Heremans, for her interviews, photos and news articles of her beloved dad.  Mr. Heremans was a Belgian fencing Olympian, coach at Los Angeles Athletic Club & University of Southern California.  He is best remembered as one of the great Hollywood Swordmaster/Choreographers in films such as; The Three Musketeers starring Gene Kelly.

Paul Jenkins, actor/fencer from Los Angeles/Philadelphia for his exacting stories of fencing events of years' past.

1959 World Champion Allan Jay of Great Britain for his gift of a newsreel from the Budapest World Championships of 1959.

Robert Levis of Florida gave invaluable stories of his father's life (Joe Levis took the Silver Medal in the 1932 Olympic foil event and was the #1 seed going into the Berlin Olympic Games of 1936.)

Donna Stone, the only American epeeist to ever make the finals of the World Championships (5th in 1989), donated photos of herself and her exceptional coach, Jerzy Grzymsky, of Salle Santelli New Jersey. 
 
Joanna deTuscan, Hall of Famer and 1939 World Professional Foil Champion, donated copies of 180 pages of her news articles and copies of her paid advertisements for Wheaties, Maxwell House Coffee and Camel Cigarettes. She also welcomed me into her Hollywood Hills home a number of times for in-depth interviews.

Gay Jacobson D'Asaro (Olympian, Hall of Fame,US national champion) donated a few photos.
 
Photos of Marjorie Kumler,1936 Pacific Coast Foil Champion were donated by Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Kumler of Camarillo, CA.
 
Al Kwartler (Olympian, US saber champion, Hall of Famer) gave us a few beautiful photos.

Mary Huddleson of Oakland, California donated beautiful photos of 9-time US foil champion and 1928 Olympic champion Helene Mayer

1955 Pan Am foilist Grace Acel Anderson of Chappaqua, N.Y. donated photos of her career as well as those of her 1928 Olympian dad, Dr. E.S. Acel.

Thanks to Renzo Greco, fencing master at Salle Greco in Rome for photos of his grandfather, Agesilao Greco and an original Greco book.

Hall of Famer Heizaburo Okawa (Japanese and US champion) donated photo of Japanese Olympic team.

Ben Zivkovic and son Bran have donated their prototype lexan mask from 1974 along with their DVD at the 2006 World Championships with Rene Roche of the F.I.E.

Official F.I.E. photographer Serge Timacheff (fencingphotos.com) has generously given the Museum some beautiful still shots from the World Championships.

Under 19 US saber champion Teddy Levitt from Los Angeles(fencing for Stanford) has given the Museum his saber lame and some great photos for our records.

Ralph Goldstein's (Hall of Famer, US Olympic Team Captain, Director and Editor of American Fencing Magazine) bag, jackets, pants weapons and mask were generously donated by Tom Ciccarone from the Candlewood Fencing in Danbury, Connecticut.  Mr. Ciccarone's donation also included a 1950's scoring device.

Our friends John, Elizabeth and Melissa Burford made a gift of fencing stamps that they have purchased for us..thank you.

Dr. Dean Stockstill of Monroe, Louisiana gave technical support and artistic enrichment on an original picture from the NY Fencers' Club dating back to the 1890's.

US Olympian Zaddick Longenbach generously donated his Barcelona Olympic warm-up jacket to our Fencing Museum.

We thank Olympian and Hall of Famer Vinnie Bradford of Austin, Texas for making a gift of her fencing scrapbooks.

USFA Executive Director, Michael Massik,  has contributed to the Museum of American Fencing with an autographed banner for the 2006 Junior World Championships.

Abby Silverstone of Canada/Southern California for his donation of 1958 World Championships film.

Joe Pechinsky for donating his video of the 1993 Ft. Myers' finals in foil.

3-time consecutive epee champion Norman Lewis for allowing me the time to interview him over the telephone.

Foil Olympian Nat Lubell graciously took the time to retrace his early highschool days fencing in NYC.

Dr. Milton Shaw of Marlton, NJ sent biographical and photographic history of his 1910 U.S. national saber champion dad, Joseph T. Shaw.

Phillip Brigandi of Hemet, California for his generous donation of documents and photos of the 1896 Cornell fencing coach, Filippo Brigandi  aka  Philip Brigandi. 

Mary Alley-Draper (Marty Tetloff for tracking these folks down); Martha and Robert Sauer; Frederick and Linda Sauer for their help in piecing together the life story of Hall of Fame 3-weapon star Alfred Sauer.

4-time Olympian Dernell Every donated a few historic photos and, more importantly, many hours of unforgettable fencing anecdotes from the 1920's and 1930's narrated over the telephone.

Olympic bronze medalist Albie Axelrod retrieved old, damaged, discarded photos from the garbage pail at the Fencers' Club and shipped them to me for restoration and display.

Maria Cerra Tishman took the time to tell a detailed story of her 1948 Olympic experience at the London Games where she tied for second place with a combined win-loss record of 17-6.

National foil champion Ruth White donated her engagement photo with fellow fencer and husband Freddie Hooker.

Ed Richards' scrapbooks reside at the Museum...we thank Hall of Famers Ed and Carla-Mae for all of these binders filled with over 30 years' worth of memories. Additionally, Ed donated his taped  recollection of his 2 National Foil title victories and we appreciate his continued mailings from the winged Foot Magazine (NYAC). Carla-Mae Richards donated 2 original Amateur Fencers League of America banners in the classic gold and blue. 

Charles Simonian, former Ohio State Coach, has donated original G. C. Calnan photos he acquired from Mrs. Calnan 

Iris Zimmermann's 2000 Olympic uniform  lives in Shreveport.

Hall of Famer Michel Alaux (the great NY Fencers' Club Coach) master's jacket and Olympic warm-up were donated by his daughters, Patricia Arakawa of Nantucket and Myriam Alaux of Portland, Oregon

Three-time Academy Award winner Edward Carfagno's uniform is on display. Mr. Carfagno was a member of the  Theoretical 1940 US Olympic Team.   

Hall of Famer and 1936 Olympian Joanna deTuscan's outfits are part of the Museum.

Andrea Buchanan Heiss has donated her father's uniform and weapons to the Shreveport , Louisiana Museum.  Gustave Heiss was a 6-time US Epee Champion inducted into the US Fencing Hall of Fame in 2006.

Mike Tiffany of Los Angeles generously donated Falcon Studios photographs from the 1930's and the 1940's which he purchased while inspecting asbestos from the old Falcon Studios building on Hollywood Boulevard.

1949 U.S. National Champion Polly Craus donated photos of Ralph Faulkner and his teammates from Falcon Studios, Hollywood.

1932 Olympic Foil Silver Medalist Joe Levis donated a photographic portrait of himself shot and  signed by legendary fencing olympian Nick Muray.

Leonardo Terrone, the first coach of the University of Pennsylvania was the founder of the Fencer's Club of Philadelphia. All students fenced with both hands using ambidextrous weapons made in Italy. Herb Shore has donated these weapons to the museum, as well as a book on the history of this historic Philadelphia club.

George William Postgate was the 1908 US Saber Champion and then coached the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. His daughter, Esther Tarn of Culver City, California, donated his cup from Pittsburgh and some photos.

Edward Nunes, son of the great Leo Nunes, (22 individual US national titles) donated Leo's photos and articles as well as a signed photo of Nedo Nadi that resides in our museum.

The 1931 Metropolitan division saber trophy is a Viennese bronze that we purchased from the Hayter Gallery in San Francisco, who, in turn, had bought it from the estate of Norman Armitage's widow, the former Constance Antonsen.

Olympian Harold Marvin Rayner won a military fencing competition in Paris just prior to The Paris 1924 Olympic games. This silver plate engraved cup resides at our museum.

Charles Bothner, the only fencer in US history to win all 3 weapons in the same year,(1897) won the US bronze medal in saber in the inaugural year of the AFLA nationals in 1892. This was donated by George Masin. 

George also donated a medal from the AFLA Nationals in 1912 at the first women's foil finals, and donated antique fencing postcards to our museum.

The Michigan Division plaque showing their early team champions (1941-1955) was purchased from Jim Belinky of S. Rockwood, Michigan.  It is a beautiful work of mohogany, bronze and copper that was engraved and signed by August von Munchhausen in 1938. Mr. von Munchhausen was a world-famous artist and member of the Fencers' Club. We are proud to display this piece.

Hugh Alessandroni, designer of the 1936 Olympic electric scoring device, and 1932 Olympic bronze medalist, is prominantly displayed in our museum. His uniform and weapons and complete scrapbooks live at our museum thanks to the generosity of his wife, Ann van Dugteren.

Early Hall of Fame certificates from John Allaire, Nick Muray, and Csaba Elthes adorn our walls. We thank Buzz Hurst of the U.S.F.C.A. for this donation.

Ed Vebell, (1952 Olympian) has donated many of his original photos to the museum, as well as a collection of historical photos from Bart Broderick.

Chauncey Ryder McPherson's family in Connecticut donated a wonderful collection of photos. They have our thanks.

We thank the Platt family of Shreveport who donated fencing stamps.

1952 Olympic Finalist Maxine Mitchell donated some photos and her signed rules book.

Norman Armitage's widow, Constance Antonsen donated some photos and articles of her 7-time Olympian husband, Norman Armitage.

Thanks to Winthrop Aldrich III (Fish family biographer) and Hamilton Fish of Garrison, NY who led me to the following relatives of Hall of Famer Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish:  Diana Fish of Carmel, California; Jonathan Fish of San Diego; Jude Sterling of Santa Rosa, California; Janet Fish of Soho in New York City.

We  thank 2-time undefeated National Foil Champion Silvio Giolito for donating 6 photos.

A photo of Hall of Famer Mathilde Jagemann, 1888, was donated by Reinholt Longenbach.

1958 World Championship finalist Robert Blum and his saber champion son, Steve for news articles from the family's past.

Original framed photos of the (Swiss - born) 1930 US national epee champion MARCEL PASCHE were donated by his widow, Margaret Pasche of Massachusetts and his daughter Marie Retherford of California.