Instructor's Profile

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.

	Kisshomaru Uyeshiba, 48, only son of the grand master of aikido Morihei Uyeshiba, is known in aikido as Waka-Sensei, or "The Younger Master." He was born in Kyoto, Japan, and after graduating from Waseda Univ. in Toyko became business manager of the General Aikido Headquarters in Tokyo. Today, as a 9th Dan Black Belt, he is chief of the Headquarters Gym, Director of the Aikido Foundation and head of the international aikido organization. His book Aikido is one of the standard English texts.		Tom Bleecker, 18, was born in Glen Ridge, N.J., and now lives in West Los Angeles, Calif., where he is a student at University High School. He is engaged to be married and intends to go to college to study business administration. He had held a 1st-Kyu Brown Belt in kenpo karate since October 1964 and assists with the instruction at Ed Parker's Kenpo Karate Studio on Crenshaw Blvd. in Los Angeles under head instructor Charles Sullivan. Tom works as an insurance agent
	Harvey Citrin, 30, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City. He holds Bachelor's degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering from the City College of New York and works as an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co. on Long Island. He is a club member and assistant instructor of George Yoshida's New York Dojo in New York City. A 2nd Dan Black Belt, he is 2nd Vice President of the N.Y. Yudanshakai (Judo Black Belt Assn.)		Takeshi Kimeta, 24, was born in Tokyo, Japan, and holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from Meiji Gakuin Univ. there. In 1963 he earned a 3rd Dan Black Belt from the Yoshinkai Aikido Association. He came to Ontario, Canada, in April 1964 and is presently a co-instructor of Yoshinkai aikido at the Tsuroka Karate and Aikido School in Toronto. Yoshinkai is a variant of the aikido developed by Morihei Uyeshiba, devised by one of his students, Gozo Shioda, and Kenji Tomiki of the Kodokan.
	Robert Popilock, 27, is the head instructor of the Somers Point Karate Club in Somers Point, New Jersey. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Southeast Catholic High School in Philadelphia. He attended Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, as a pre-med student and is presently employed as an X-ray technician. He has a 1st Dan Black Belt in karate, and is married and has two children.		Robert Dempsky, 26, was born in Norwich, Conn. He attended Norwich Free Academy, and Central Connecticut State College in New Britain where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting. He is married and makes his living as a high school teacher. He holds a 1st-Dan Black Belt from the Korean Yudo College and was 1964 Connecticut AAU Black Belt Judo Champion. He is co-instructor of the Sae- Ki Kwan Judo Club at Robert E. Fitch Senior High School in Groton. Conn.
	Vincent J. Nunno, 22, was born in New York City. He is a graduate of Hunter College in New York and is presently working for the New York City Department of Commerce while studying for a master's degree in social psychology. He holds a 1st-Dan Black Belt in karate and is a member of the board of directors of the New York State Chapter of the American Tang Soo Do Korean Karate Assn. This is a division of the Moo Duk Kwan Karate organization with headquarters in Seoul. Korea.		Leon J. Sill, 22, was born in New Orleans, La., and is presently attending Louisiana State University there as a student of engineering. He is a graduate of Frontier High School. In 1964 he won first place in both the kata (form) and kumite (free fighting) divisions of the All-South Karate Champion ships of the All America Karate Federation. He was promoted to 1st-Dan Black Belt that year He serves as asst. instructor at the New Orleans Karate Club and chief instructor of the Campus Karate Club at L.S.U.
	Brian J. Olden, 18, is a student at Erasmus High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., and a 1st Dan Black Belt in the Kyokushinkai Karate" do organization headed by Master Masutatsu Oyama of Tokyo. Brian has been studying karate for several years at the New York Kyokushinkai Karate School in Brooklyn. He earned his Black Belt in 1963 and is now assisting with the instruction there under Frank Franzone, 4th Dan Black Belt.		Jeanne Booth, 26, was born in Washington, D.C., and attended Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass., and the Univ. of Virginia in Fredericksburg. She is married to a Navy Lieutenant and has two children. When her husband was stationed in Yokosuka, Japan (1959 to 1963), she studied karate and Yoshinkan aikido there. She holds a 1st-Dan Black Belt in this style of aikido and has been told she is the first non Japanese woman to attain this rank. She's a school teacher in Troy, N.Y., where she teaches karate and aikido at several YWCAs.
	Koji Oshima, 24, was born in Kumamoto, Japan. He attended Yamaga High School and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in economics from Hosei Univ. in Tokyo. He came to the U.S. in 1963 and in 1964 was promoted to his present rank of 5th Dan Black Belt in judo. Though he weighs only 145 pounds and stands only 5 feet 5 inches tall Oshima won the 1964 overall U.S. Midwestern Judo Championship and the Black Belt championship of the 1964 Canadian National Exhibition Judo Tournament in Tokyo.		Joseph Nicchia has been studying "T'iso Ho Ch'uan Tao," a branch of "Chi Tao," for five years and he is presently head instructor of that art at the Ian Tuvic Institute of Self-Defense in Chicago, Ill. He holds the rank of White Sash, Black Dragon (Hei Lung) in T'iao Ho Ch'uan Tao, described as a martial art of Chinese origin with international headquarters in Hong Kong. Mr. Nicchia is a student at Wright College in Chicago.
	David Roseman, 36, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He attended the New York School of Printing in New York City and makes his living operating a linotype, a keyboard machine that sets type for magazines and newspapers. In 1963 he earned the rank of 2nd-Kyu Brown Belt in judo, and today he serves as assistant instructor, co-director and Vice President of the Judo Academy of Long Island in Oceanside, N.Y. He is affiliated with the N.Y. Yudanshakai (Black Belt Assn.), the JBBF and the MU. He's married and has three children.		Terrence C. Pierce, 27, was born in Bridge. ton, N.J. He graduated from Bridgeton High School and studied industrial drafting at the Allied Institute of Technology in Chicago, 111. He is married, has one child, and makes his living as a draftsman. In 1964 he earned his 1st Kyu Brown Belt in aikido from the N.J. School of Unarmed Self-Defense\|N.J. Aiki Kai, in Haddonfield. He serves there now as assistant instructor.
	Clifton A. Norgaard, 34, was born in Chicago, Ill., and attended the Univ. of California at Berkeley where he earned a Bachelor's degree in criminology; He presently lives in Oklahoma City, Okla., where he works as Assistant Manager of Exhibits for the State Fair of Oklahoma. He earned a 1st Degree Black Belt in ju-jitsu in 1955 and in 1961 he was promoted to the rank of 2nd Dan Black Belt in Kodokan judo. He is the assistant director of the Oklahoma Academy of Judo in Oklahoma City, and is affiliated with the JBBF.		Louis S. Moseley, 38, was born in Chicago, Ill., and now lives in Evanston, Ill., with his wife and four children, working as a physical director at the Emerson Street YMCA. He graduated from Evanston Township High School and is in his senior year at Northwestern Univ. in Evanston, majoring in business administration. In 1956 he earned a 1st-Dan Black Belt in Kodokan judo and in 1964 a 2nd-Dan Black Belt in karate from the U.S. Karate Assn.
	Joseph A. Fiorentino, 26, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and educated in Calif.: he graduated from Bellarmine Prep in Santa Clara and from San Jose State College where he studied business and industrial management. He practiced with the San Jose State Judo Team (3 time U.S. collegiate champs) and is now a lieutenant in the Marines. In 1964 he was promoted to 2nd Dan Black Belt. He is asst. coach of the Naval Air Station Judo Team in Atsugi, Japan. (Head coach is an 8th Dan). He is married and has 2 children.		Larry A. Lent, 30, was born in New York City and lives in Flushing, Queens, with his wife and 4 children. While in the Air Force he was sent to the Kodakan Institute in Tokyo for a course in judo and self-defense. He taught self defense for the Air Force and, for 3 years, to the Orlando, Fla., police. He has been awarded 1st-Dan Black Belts by the Japan Sosuishiryu Ju-Jutsu Assn. and the Korean Yudo (judo) Assn. of the U.S. He teaches basic self defense at his Jakata, Inc., in Flushing.
	Richard Tyner, 35, is a native of West Virginia. A Staff Sergeant in the Marines, he is stationed at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, where he's instructor of the base judo club. In 1958 he was promoted to 2nd.Dan Black Belt by the Shufu Yudanshakai. He has been a weight-class finalist in numerous All Marine Tournaments and in '61 he was runner up for Corps Champion. In '64 he captained the Armed Forces Far East 1st place team and was named top foreign judoman of Okinawa. He's married and has 5 children.		John Lyons, 30, lives with his wife and four children in Marlboro, Mass. He graduated from Marlboro High School and studied chemistry at Northeastern Univ. in Boston. During the Korean War he served with the airborne Rangers of the U.S. Army, a highly. trained behind-the-lines striking force. After the Army Mr. Lyons took up karate under Anthony Mirakian at the Okinawan Karate do Academy Goju.Ryu in Watertown, Mass. Today, as a 1st-Dan Black Belt, he is asst. instructor there and head instructor of Branch School No 1 in Marlboro.
	Frank C. Kovacs, Jr., 15, was born in Austria. He came to the U.S. in 1950 and is attending Benedictine High School in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1964 he was awarded 1st Kyu Brown Belts in ju jitsu and in the French foot fighting art of savate. He also holds a 3rd-Kyu Brown Belt in judo. He works under his father, Frank, Sr., as assistant instructor at the Cleveland School of Self Defense and Judo. He is affiliated with the Ju- Jitsu Black Belt Federation of the USA.		Kim Byung Soo, 27, was born in Seoul, Korea, and lives there with his wife. A graduate of Choong-Ang High School in Seoul, he holds a Bachelor's degree in Russian literature from the Foreign Language College of Korea. Kim is Executive Director of the Korea Tae Soo Do Karate Assn. and makes his living as a karate instructor\|he won his 5th-Dan Black Belt in 1962. He also holds la 2nd-Dan in aikido (Korean Hapki-Do Inst.) and a Blue Belt in judo. He instructs at the Kang Duk Won Martial Arts Gym in Seoul and also teaches karate to the U.S. Army.