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Post by lomaxdq on Oct 30, 2013 13:03:24 GMT -6
Hi, I was just reminiscing with my sister about our fencing days at the Dad's Club YMCA and Bellaire Rec Center. I wondered whatever became of some of the people I fenced with. I have tracked down Roland Reed and Patrice Caux, but don't know what became of Al Snyder, Bob Hurley, Steve Farid, Richard Alvarez, and others whose names escape me. Anyone know anything?
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Post by schlager7 on Oct 31, 2013 6:43:15 GMT -6
Hi, I was just reminiscing with my sister about our fencing days at the Dad's Club YMCA and Bellaire Rec Center. I wondered whatever became of some of the people I fenced with. I have tracked down Roland Reed and Patrice Caux, but don't know what became of Al Snyder, Bob Hurley, Steve Farid, Richard Alvarez, and others whose names escape me. Anyone know anything? Roland Reed passed away a few years back. Just before he died, knowing I was working on a history of fencing in this area he mailed me a copy of a short "history" of the Van Buskirk Memorial tournament that he wrote the year Houston played host to the Junior Olympics. Patrice Caux was in New Orleans last I emailed him (about 3-4 years ago). Al Snyder passed away. Bob Hurley and wife Tracy live in the Texas Hill Country. Their daughters Kelly and Courtney are Olympic fencers (epee, of course). Steve Farid retired and sold his business some 5 or so years back. I have not been in contact with him lately. Richard Alvarez just finished a gig as a knight/jouster at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival and just arrived back home (Half Moon Bay, California) yesterday. May I ask your name and ask if you have visited my website, Campeche Steel? |
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Post by lomaxdq on Oct 31, 2013 21:37:27 GMT -6
My name back then was April Yellott. I did visit your website today, and sent you an email. It would be nice to be around fencers again.
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Post by Marsha Lenox on Dec 30, 2015 2:39:02 GMT -6
I've only recently discovered this sad turn of events for Claude Caux and through that, this forum. I took fencing and stage movement with Claude Caux at U of H the first year he started teaching there. Now I can't remember whether it was 1974 or 1975. I've thought of him and fencing class from time to time over the years since then. Recently, a story about Marcel Marceau working in the French Resistance has been circulating on Facebook. I commented on a friend's post of this story and told her about the time he came to U of H and gave a three-hour seminar on mime and movement. I don't know if he did that ever again, but it was such a thrill and honor to see him speak and watch him perform to demonstrate what he was talking about. And he did this because of his friendship with Monsieur Caux.
I wish I'd kept up with fencing - my thighs were never stronger! Monsieur Caux drove us hard, but his passion gave us the enthusiasm and energy to complete a 60-minute class with just one water break. His movement course was similarly demanding, but well worth it. We all sought to please him and rise to his exacting standards. A few actually did. I am bereft for him and for his family and for the family of Mary Chovanetz. This is not the end we ever expect for someone we admire and respect as I did Claude Caux.
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Post by Chuck Montgomery on Sept 3, 2019 22:06:58 GMT -6
I took fencing mime and movement from Mister Caux and 76 & 77 at U of H. He was amazingly tough and cool. Like everybody else oh, I was shocked to hear what happened. He was a passionate man!
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Post by Mike on Nov 28, 2020 16:23:31 GMT -6
I took recreational fencing from Claude in 1973 (?) at the Univ of Colo Denver campus. I am saddened to hear of his passing. A very interesting and engaging individual.
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