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Joaquin M. Andrade, 22, was born in
Montevideo, Uruguay. He attended Larranage High in Montevideo, obtained
a degree in Physical Education, and is now a professor. He became a Black
Belt in Judo in 1964. Mr. Andrade won 3rd place in the Pan-American Games
in Brazil in 1963 and 1st place in the Rio De La Plata Games, Buenos Aires,
1964. He is now head instructor at the Seidokan Judo Dojo in Montevideo,
Uruguay and is affiliated with the Kodakan and the Uruguaian Judo Federation
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Richard B. Taylor, 32, is a native
of Los Angeles, Calif. He holds an engineering degree from Pacific States
Univ. and works as a sales engineer. As a boxer he won the Washington State
middleweight championships. He played judo for a year in Seattle before
taking up aikido. In 1962 he earned a Black Belt in Yoshinkai aikido and
in 1963 a B lack Belt in Hombu aikido. He teaches aikido at the San Pedro
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Hugh St. John Thomson, 26, was born
in Pieter Maritzburg, Natal, South Africa, graduated from Wynber Boys High
School in Cape Town. He was the first man in Cape Province to be graded
a Black Belt in karate (Japan Kyokushinkai, 1963). His wife is also a Black
Belt. He is the representative .for Cape Province of the Kyokushinkai and
Japan Karate associations, and is founder and instructor of karate clubs
in Cape Town and at Stellenbosch Univ. |
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James L. Kennedy, 23, was born in Dallas,
Texas, and graduated from Texas Senior High School in Texerkana. He is
presently living in Des Moines, lowa, where he makes his living as a full-time
karate instructor at the Des Moines School of Self-Defense, 2617 Ingersoll
Avenue. Kennedy first took up karate in 1960 when he was stationed on Okinawa
with the U.S. Air Force. He attained the rank of Black Belt in 1962. Mr.
Kennedy and his school are affiliated with the United States Karate Association.
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Ronald J. Fulton, 25, was born in Evansville,
Indiana, and graduated from Reitz High School there. He lives in Evansville
with his wife and makes his living as a power tube bender. He holds the
Kodokan judo rank of 2nd-Kyu Brown Belt and is registered with the Judo
Black Belt Federation of America (JBBF). He serves as assistant instructor
and President of the judo club at the Evansville Young Men's Christian
Association in the YMCA Building. He is affiliated with the Amateur Athletic
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Leonard Tabb, 32, was born in Pittsburgh,
Pa., and graduated from Herron High School there. A career soldier in the
U.S. Army, he lives with his wife and child at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland,
where he is chief instructor of the base judo club. Before being assigned
to Fort Meade and starting the club he spent 11 years with the Army in
Japan. He began practicing judo more than five year ago and helped form
a judo club at Camp Drake, near Tokyo. He also belonged to the Asakamachi
Judo Club in Tokyo. In 1962 he was promoted to Black Belt. |
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Masutasu Oyama, 43, was born in Korea.
He attended the Yamanashi-Ken Aviation School in Kofu, and majored in Aeronautics
at Takushyoku University in Tokyo, Japan. Hei is married and has two children.
Mr. Oyama is an expert Black Belt in Karate and is also proficient in Judo,
Daito-ryu, and Aiki-djutsu. He visited the United States in 1952, '54,
'60, and '62, and is now head instructor at the Japan Karatedo Kyokushin
Kaikan in Tokyo, Japan. |
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Suk Chin-Kyung, 53, was born in Seoul,
Korea. He attended Pai-Chai High School in Seoul, received a bachelors
degree in law at Rithusmeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, and is now a
professor. He is married and has four children. Mr. Chin-Kyung, a Black
Belt, is affiliated with the Korea Judo Association, and is now head instructor
at Dong-A University in Pusan, Korea, and Vice-Chairman of the International
Judo Association. |
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Warren Siciliano, 40, of Palm Beach,
Fla. has devised his own system of self-defense which he calls "karado."
He was born in Library, Pa., attended high school there and studied law
at the Univ. of Pittsburgh. He is a former Florida police chief. He was
awarded a Black Belt in 1947 by Dewey Devers of the Amer. Ju-Jitsu School,
Pittsburgh. He is a Red Belt in his own karado. He teaches self-defense
at the Dade County Policy Acad. and at several Florida gyms. |
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Richard Demerse, 28, was born in Indiana
and lives there now in Hammond with his wife and two children. He works
as a salesman. In 1957 he was stationed with the Army in Japan. He studied
karate there from the Japan Karate Assn. and the All-Japan Karate Fed.
and returned to the U.S. after nearly 2 years with a 1st-Kyu Brown Belt.
In 1959 he applied for membership with the U.S. Karate Assn. and was accepted
and given the rank of Black Belt. His latest USKA promotion came in 1963.
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Xavier Mendoza, 25, was born in Mexico
City, Mexico. He attended St. Gregory's High School in Shawnee, Oklahoma
and East Los Angeles College. He is presently studying architecture at
the University of Southern California. He received a Black Belt in Kenpo
in 1963 and is now assistant instructor at the Nippon Kenpo School in Pasadena,
California. He is affiliated with the American Nippon Kenpo Federation.
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Sig Kufferath was born in Honolulu,
Hawaii. He attended McKinley High in Honolulu, majored in Applied Science
at the University of Hawaii, and is now an auditor. He received his Black
Belt in Ju-Jitsu in 1941 from Professor H. S. Okazaki of Honolulu. In 1953
he accompanied the Hawaii Judo Team as a trainer to the 1st National Judo
Championship in San Jose where Hawaii won the championships. He is past
president of the American Judo and Ju-Jitsu Institute of Hawaii. At present
he is head instructor of the Los Altos Aiki-Jitsu Dojo in Los Altos, California.
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Amos Gil'ad, 32, attended school at
Municipal A in Tel Aviv, Israel and received his B.S. in Agricultural Engineering
at the Israel Institute of Technology at Haifa. He is married and has one
child. While studying he took up judo under the instruction of Mr. N. Simon.
Mr. Gil'ad operates a dojo at Goen and one at Ein Charod. At present he
is a Brown Belt and is head instructor at Hapo'el Ein Charod and Hapo'el
Gonen in Israel and is affiliated with the Israel Judo Federation. |
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Jorge Julio Brinkmann, 19, was born
in the Argentine Embassy in Lima, Peru. He graduated from Nacional Sarmiento
high school in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is presently a college student
in Buenos Aires. He studied karate in Argentina for five years from a Japanese
instructor and in 1965 was awarded a Black Belt from Peter Urban's Metro
politan Karate Society in New York. He is karate instructor at the Kyuzo
Mifune Institute in Buenos Aires. |
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Yukio Nogachi, 38, was born in Dambara
Kumamoto, Japan. When he was 16 he took up judo, karate, kendo and sumo
simultaneously and today he holds Black Belts in all those martial arts.
After twice winning the Kanto (Tokyo) Region Judo Championship he went
into aikido and now holds a high Black Belt from the Yoshinkai Aikido Assn.
He is teaching judo and aikido at the Young Buddhist Association in Honolulu,
Hawau. |
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Tony Mallo, Jr., 23, was born in Havana
Cuba, and graduated from the Havana military Academy. He entered the United
States in 1960 and studied at the Univ. of South Florida in Tampa. He is
a student of architecture and is working his way through Central Piedmont
Community College in Charlotte, N. C., working as an architectural draftsman.
He received a Black Belt from the Cuban Assn. of Judo and Jujitsu in 1959
and in 1962 a Black Belt in Kodokan judo from the JBBF of the U S. He's
chief instructor at the Charlotte Central YMCA. |
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Prints Newton, 19, graduated from Newark
New Jersey's Central High School in 1963 and is assistant instructor of
Chito-Ryu karate at James Cheatham's Karate, Inc., in Newark. He earned
his Black Belt at the age of 17 after only 9 months of dedicated practice.
The same year he won his Black Belt he went up to Toronto to compete in
the 2 nd Canadian Open Tournament. He came closest of anyone to beating
the champion and reporters called him the fastest karate-man they had seen.
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David L. Wire, 24, was born in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma. He attended high school there and studied aeronautics at
Oklahoma State Univ. in Stillwater. He has been a student of Kodokan judo
for a number of years and in January 1962 he attained the rank of Black
Belt. He is an assistant instructor at the Oklahoma Academy of Judo in
Oklahoma City. He is affiliated with the Judo Black Belt Federation of
America (JBBF) and the Amateur Athletic Union of the U.S. (AAU). He lives
with his wife in Oklahoma City and makes his living as a cabinet maker.
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Don McLaughlin, 29, was born in Nemicolin,
Pa. He attended Eastern High in Detroit, Michigan, and went on to get his
Bachelor's Degree in English at Michigan State He is married and has one
child. Mr. McLaughlin won the 3rd Marine Division Championship in '57,
'58, and '59, and was awarded the Outstanding Foreign Student award by
the Ishikawa School of Judo, Okinawa, in '58, and '59. He is now head instructor
at the Orlando School of Self-Defense in Orlando, Florida and is affiliated
with the J.B.B.F. and the A.F.J.A. |
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David E. Whitehead, 37, was born in
Colorado Springs, Colorado. He attended high school in Richland, Washington,
went on to the University of Washington and Northwestern University Medical
School to become a Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine and
is now an anesthesiologist. He is married and has three children. Mr. Whitehead
became a Black Belt in Karate in 1963. At present he is assistant instructor
at the Hartford Karate Association and is affiliated with the U.S.K.A.
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Ted West was born in Rochester, New
York, educated in Toronto, Canada, and is now majoring in the Behavorial
Sciences at Manhattan Community College He was in the Canadian Army reserve
of the 48th Highlanders. Mr. West is a captain in the New York City Prison
System. He has held a Black Belt in Jiu-jitsu since 1964 and also holds
a Brown Belt in Judo. At present he is director of Nisei Judo and Jiu-jitsu
Inc. in the Bronx, New York and is Co-head instructor in Jiu-jitsu. He
is affiliated with A.J.J.F. |
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Robert C. Moore, 22, was born in Saginaw,
Michigan. While in the Army he studied Karate under Mr. Nam K. Yun in Chun
Chon, Korea, and received his Black Belt in 1963. Mr. Moore organized the
Huntsville Karate Team, a sponsored program of Sam Houston College. At
present he is assistant state representative for the United States Karate
Association, president of the Huntsville Karate Team, the Brazoria County
District, and the Walker County District, all under the U.S.K.A. He is
head instructor at these clubs and also chief Karate instructor at the
Samuri School of Martial Arts. |
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Ernest H. Lieb, 25, was born in Berlin,
Germany, came to the United States in 1952 and became a citizen in 1959.
He attended Muskegon High in Muskegon, Michigan and majored in Sociology
at Grand Valley State College in Allendale, Michigan. He is married and
the father of one child. Mr. Lieb is an expert Black Belt Karateka. While
in the Air Force he was runner-up in over ail points in the Nam Won Korea
Championships of 1964. At present he is affiliated with the Karate Association
of Korea. |
