Faces of Post-War Fencing
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The fencers and coaches from the Gulf Coast in the 1940s and 1950s

Jack Baird & Alvin Goodstein

I. J. Barrios, Texas A&M, 1949

Gustave Mistrot, Texas A&M, 1949

Ardien Rodner at UH 1950

Gerald Monks, Texas A&M

Sylvia D'Albergo & Johanna Blumel, Galveston

Jack Weir, UH, 1950

Everett Abbott, UH, 1950

Col. Frank Vaden & John "Count" Gottlob, A&M, 1952

Leopold Ffrench, Rice, 1952

Moore vs Applebaum, 1954

Arnold "Sonny" Mercado (glasses), UH, 1954

Sonny Mercado coaching, UH, 1954

David Reed, Rice, 1954

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Fred Sklar & Edwin Kashy, Rice, 1956

David Dillehay, Rice, 1957

Naomi Abbott, 1958

Bryn Ralph, Texas A&M 1959