Instructors Profiles

This section is devoted to all the head instructors and their assistants who have given unselfishly their time and efforts to promote the martial arts and sports.

Sadso Yoshioka, 42, was born in Honolulu Hawaii, and presently lives there with his wife and four children. He has been studying aikido for several years under Yukiso Yamamoto and Shinichi Suzuki, and under masters Morihei Uyeshiba and Koichi Tohei during their various teaching tours of the islands. Yoshioka has progressed in developin g his technique and his ki to the point where he was awarded a 3rd-Dan Black Belt in 1961. He is President of the Honolulu Aikido Yudanshakai.	J.C. Lindsay, 38, was born in Tennessee. He studied engineering in college in Atlanta, Georgia, where he now lives with his wife: and two children making his living in the construction industry. He holds a 3rd-Dan Black Belt in ju-jitsu and a 1st-Dan Black Belt in Korean Moo Duk Kwan Tang Soo Do karate. He teaches ju-jitsu at the Young Mens Christian Association of Atlanta and at the Judo and Karate Black Belt Club in Atlanta. He's President of the Atlanta Ju-Jitsu Club.	Robert W. Marien, 30, was 17 years old when he earned his 1st-Dan Black Belt at the Kodokan Judo Institute in Tokyo while serving in Japan with the Marine Corps. A power company repairman in Minneapolis, Minn., he was born in Larimore, North Dakota, and attended school in St. Paul, Minn. Although he lives in Minneapolis he teaches three judo clubs in St. Paul, which is 25 miles away at the downtown YMCA, the YWCA, and the St. Paul Athletic Club. He helped form the Minnesota judo Association in 1955.
Allen Good, 34, was born in Boston, Mass. He attended Newton High School and the l University of Massachusetts in Amherst where he earned a Bachelor's degree in English and Business. He is President and owner of the International School of Judo & Karate, 3 Bank St., Summit, N.J. He earned a 1st-Kyu Brown Belt in judo in 1963 and helps the Black Belts at the school as an assistant instructor. He is married and has two children and makes his living as a regional sales manager.	Dr. Evan Baltazzi, 45, a research chemist, lives with his wife and three children in Brookfield, III. He holds doctorates in physical science from the Sorbonne in France and in philosophy from Oxford Univ. in England. He is a 4th-Dan Judo Black Belt, a 3rd-Dan in Yoseikan aikido. His training under Kawaishi in France included ju-jitsu. He studied savate and was on the '46-'47 Sorbonne fencing team. He was captain of the Oxford Univ. Judo Team, '52-'54 and now instructs the West Suburban YMCA judo-aikido club in La Grange, Ill.	Louis Stanishia, 22, was born in White Plains, N.Y., and attended school in Peekskill. After studying karate for five years in New York and earning a 1st-Kyu Brown Belt he joined the U.S. Air Force and was sent to the Philippines. He won the 1963 Philippine Amateur Karate Association championship. He taught at two karate schools in Angeles City, Philippines, and came home a 1st-Dan Black Belt sanctioned to instruct. Stationed at Hunter AFB in Georgia, he is asst. instructor at the Bushido-Kai Dojo in Savannah.
Harvey Torok, 23, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and presently lives there with his wife. He attended John Adams High School in Cleveland and makes his living as an upholsterer. In 1964 he earned his 1st-Degree Brown Belt in the French foot-fighting art of savate under chief instructor Frank Kovacs at the Cleveland School of Self-Defense, 2916 East 116th Street. He is now an assistant instructor there. He is affiliated with the Jiu Jitsu Black Belt Federation of the USA.	Ronald Imamura, 24, was born in Puunene on the island of Maui, Hawaii. He attended Baldwin High School on Maui and the Honolulu Business College in Honolulu, majoring in business administration. He makes his living in the Honolulu area as a truck driver. He holds a 1st-Dan Black Belt in Chito-Ryu karate from the All-Japan Karate-doh Federation and is assistant instructor of karate at the Nuuanu Young Men's Christian Association, 1350 Fort Street in Honolulu. He is unmarried.	Ronnie Capps, 19, was born in Silsbee, Texas, and attended Silsbee High School. He lives in Silsbee and commutes daily to Tyler Junior College in Tyler, where he is a student of government and assistant instructor of the T.J.C. Campus Karate Club. He holds a 4th-Kyu Green Belt from the American Tang Soo Do Karate Association. Tang Soo Do is a form of the Moo Duk Kwan karate of Korea, and the international association has its headquarters in Seoul, capital city of South Korea.
Reverend Soyu Matsuoka, a master of the Soto (Quietist) sect of Zen Buddhism and pastor of the Zen Buddhism Temple of Chicago, Illinois, recently became Zen advisor to the United States Karate Association. Born in Japan into a family of Zen priests, he graduated from Komazawa University in Tokyo and was trained in Zen at the Sojiji temple in Yekohama. He has taught Zen, Japanese language and the Tea Ceremony in California and at his school in Chicago. He is affiliated with the USKA because he feels Zen is the spiritual basis of the martial arts.	Dick Stafford was born in Charlotte, North Carol., and attended Myers Park High School there and Charlotte College. He holds a 1st- Dan Black Belt in the Yoshinkan style of aikido devised by Kenji Tomiki at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. For more than a year Stafford has been first assistant instructor at the Charlotte Aikido Club, working with Chief Instructor Jack C. Mumpower, 3rd-Dan, who trained directly under Tomikisensei in Japan. Mr. Stafford is unmarried.	James Gillis, Jr., 18, is a student at Saint Joseph's High School in South Bend, Indiana. In addition to his studies he also finds work as an entertainer. He has been studying Shotokan karate for five years and in 1963 was awarded the rank of 2nd-Kyu Brown Belt. When his instructor moved to another town he formed the "Kandan Karate Club for Teens" in his basement. This has now grown into the Kandan School and Ciub of Karate of which he is the chief instructor.
Ray L. Kaufman, 24, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he lives now with his wife. He graduated from high school in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and studied economics and business administration at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He makes his living as an electrical drafting designer and is co-owner and director of the Cleveland School of Self-Defense and Judo at 2916 East 116th Street. In 1961 he earned 1st-Degree Black Belts in ju-jitsu and in the French foot-fighting art of savate.	Wallace W. Reumann, 33, is a native of New York State. He joined the Army at the age of 16 and is a career soldier. He was stationed in Japan for 51/2 years and trained there with the Japan Karate Assn. In 1957 he came home with a 5th-Dan Black Belt and founded the American Karate Federation of which he is President. The AKF presently has 27 member training schools and is affiliated with Master Tsuyoshi Chitose's All- Japan Karate-doh Federation.	Bob Kettenburg, 27, was born in Indianapolis, \|Indiana, and lives with his wife and child in New Jersey. He attended Hillside, NJ High School and presently makes his living as a carpenter. In 1962 he attained the rank of 1st-Kyu Brown Belt in Kodakan judo. He is the chief instructor of the Phillipsburg Judokai Judo Club which meets at the First Youth Center in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. He is a member of the Shufu Judo Yudan-shakai (Capital Judo Black Belt Association.)
Stan Schwab, 22, is studying business ad ministration at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. At the Ian Tuvic Institute of Self-Defense in Chicago he is an instructor of "T'iao Ho Ch'uan Tao," a branch of "Chi Tao," in which he holds the green and black belt of proficient amateur. His rank is called "Tieh Ch'uan" in Chinese. "T'iao Ho Ch'uan Tao" is described as a martial art of Chinese origin with international headquarters in Hong Kong. Schwab was instrumental in establishing the Ian Tuvic Institute in Chicago.	Richard "Biggie" Kim, 45, born in Hilo, Hawaii, attended the Univ. of Hawaii and earned a degree in political science from St. John's University in Shanghai, China. World War II caught him in the orient and he stayed there from 1941 to 1959, when he returned to San Francisco, Calif., to teach the martial arts at the Chinese YMCA and at his own school. He earned the rank of Kyoshi at the Dai Nippon Butokukai in Kyoto, Japan, and holds 7th-Dan Black Belts in karate and ju-jitsu And A 4th-Dan in judo.	Richard "Tug" Wilson, 33, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and attended school in Surbiton, Surrey, England. A former member of the London Metropolitan Police ("Bobbies") and the Special Investigative Branch of the RCAF, he is studying for a degree in physical education at the Univ. of Manitoba, Canada. A 2nd-Dan Black Belt in judo and 1st-Dan in karate, he is head instructor of the Winnipeg School of Judo & Karate. He was Canadian Mid-West Black Belt Judo Champion 61 and 62.
Howard Sato is a graduate of Kaimuki High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, and works there as an, employee of the City and County of Honolulu. He has been a student of aikido for a number of years, having taken up the art when it was introduced to the Islands by 9th-Dan Master Koichi Tohei of the Hombu Aiki-Dojo in Tokyo, Japan. He now holds a 2nd-Dan Black Belt and is chief instructor of the Moiliili Branch of the Honolulu Aiki Dojo. He is also one of Yukiso Yamamoto's assistant instructors at the main dojo.	John Gowan was born in Boonville, Missouri. He graduated from Washburn High School and studied engineering at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. He is presently a student at Los Angeles Valley College in Van Nuys, California, and is assistant instructor o f the Seki Dojo Judo Club there, working under instructors Jack Seki (2nd-Dan Black Belt) and Bob Ota (5th-Dan Black Belt). Mr. Gowan earned a 3rd-Kyu judo Brown Belt in 1963 and has some experience in ju-jitsu.	Robert L. Hall, 24, attended John Adams High School in South Bend, Indiana, and studied through the Extension Division of George Washington University of Washington, D.C. In July 1962 he was promoted to 1 et-Dan Black Belt in Kodokan judo by the Judo Federation of Okinawa. He is presently the chief instructor of the judo club at the South Bend YMCA, 236 Main Street in South Bend. He is affiliated with the JBBF and is treasurer of his local AAU Judo Development Fund.
Young Nam Chung, 26, was born into a judo family in Seoul, Koreahis father holds a 7th-Dan Black Belt and his three brothers are also Black Belts. Chung, who holds a 5th-Dan Black Belt from the Korean Judo Federation, won the Korean National Judo Championship in 1963 and went to Tokyo, Japan, that same year to represent Korea in the World Judo Championships. He was slated for the 1964 Korean Olympic Judo Team but was asked by his government to come to this country as an instructor instead.