Connecticut
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Connecticut
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December 1939
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4
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7
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11
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CONNECTICUT
The Connecticut Division of the A. F. L. A., after a quiet season in 1938-1939, is now reported as evidencing revived activity. The authorities of Yale University have granted permission for the use of the Yale Gymnasium for Sunday competitions. Miss Muriel Guggolz, member of the American Olympic Fencing Team in 1932, has been appointed Chairman of the Connecticut Girls’ Division of the A. F. L. A. and has obtained a private school gymnasium for all women’s foil competitions.
Robert Grasson, Yale Fencing Master and Foil Coach of the 1936 American Olympic Team, has been pursuing an energetic schedule of fencing exhibitions throughout the State. He is assisted in these exhibitions by his son, Albert, Assistant Fencing Master at Yale, and his daughter, Marguerite, Connecticut women’s foil champion. They have already given exhibitions at the Kent, Hotchkiss, Berkshire Academy, the Bridgeport High School, the Greenwich High School, and the Brunswick School in Greenwich.
A new fencing club, The New Canaan Fencing Club, has been organized in New Canaan under the coachship of Robert C. Barr, who is also the fencing instructor at Sterling House in Stratford. The New Canaan Club was organized in the Fall with 20 enthusiasts, 18 of which had done no fencing previously. Mr. Barr previously instructed fencing at the Ridgefield School for eight years until the closing of that school. During that time his team had the unusual record of suffering no defeats, which Mr. Barr attributes primarily to good material. He writes that both of his new groups are highly enthusiastic and feels that the future of American fencing lies in the young fencers throughout the country in schools and clubs such as these.
