Midland & Odessa

[Chuck]

desertfencer said:

Thanks, Chuck. We're working fast on the USFA thing. We're giving free club membership for 6 months with a USFA member number. We hope to be there by the first of the year.

I just received an updated division membership list from USFA and La Belle Fencing Club has 7 USFA members. Congratulations on a great start.

If any of you have time, come up to Texas Tech this weekend for the Cliff Wilson Memorial. On Saturday, they are having an E and Under Epee competition and on Sunday, an E and under Foil and Sabre competition. Even if you don't fence, it would be great to get to know you.

[Matt Vann]

Hi All,

Just wanted to let everyone know that we have 10 USFA members at this time and our USFA club application goes out as soon as I can get the check signed by our club VP.

Thanks for all of the help. I apologize for falling out of contact last month, I was home about 5 days the entire month of October.

Our introductory class is now being offered through Midland College's continuing education program. It's good free advertising.

My personal e-mail is listed on my member profile here. Let me know about anything coming up and I'll send it out to the club.

[kd5mdk]

Excellent news.

[theluz]

admin said:

I know I have a couple of news clippings of a tournament held in Odessa twice in two consecutive years back in the 1970s. I don't know how long it continued. I think in the second year the big winner was a fencer from UT.

The timing is right for that person to be John Hillier. He & I used to fence for UT during that era and I think he went to Midland.

[Jasmine]

Jul 10, 2006 13:10:15 GMT -6 Matt Vann said:

Katy,

The Panamanian fencer you met was Orlando Temple. He passed away a couple of years ago. He was a great guy and is missed by the group.

Mike Husband was one of our coaches in the 80's. His job sent him to Oklahoma, which I think was one of the reasons our club fizzled out back then. We lost lots of people in the bust.

You may also remember Robert Walter, he coached the same time as Mike. Robert is now our head coach. At 50 years old he can still beat everyone else. We're lucky to have him.

As for tournaments, we held a few at the Army Reserve Center at the Midland International Airport. We're currently at a city community center and they're itching for us to hold tourneys there. We've scheduled a small club tourney after our first class.

[Jasmine]

My grandfather is named Orlando temple from Panama and was a fencer who made it to Olympic trials. I heard he fenced in Texas. Not sure if this is the same person, but the man I'm related to is alive.
Just trying to research more about him and came across this.