THE RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL LIAISON ~OMMITTEE National Association of College Gymnastic Coaches (NACGC) Gym Master Company Resea rch Grant and Nationa l Gymnastic Clinic (Sarasota) CHAIRMAN: Dr. Hartley Price. Florida State University: Tallahassee, Florida ANNOUNCEMENT: Four Research Awards will be offered this year. GYMNASTIC RESEARCH AWARDS for 1969路 70. I. The C. H. McCloy Honor Research Awa-d of the National Gymnastic Clinic - Sarasota - $100. (President - Frank Cumiskey. RFD Westwood: New Jersey). Decided at Sarasota. Chairma n. Dr. Hartley Price 2. Two Honor Research Awards of the NACGC (National Association of College Gymnastic Coaches) - SIOO each. (President - Frank Walcott, Gymnastic Coach , Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts. a. Western Award USGF National Western C linic (Chairman, Dr. G lenn Wilson) . Decided at Tucson. b. Easter Award - USGF National Eastern Clinic (Chairman. Dr. Hartley Price). Decided at Fort Lauderdale. Also at the Gvmnastic Clinic at Tucson Arizona: 3. The Gym ~Iaster Company Research Grant Chairman - Dr. Glenn Wilson. University of Arizona: Tucson. Arizona ). CRITERION OF COMMITTEE: The committee wishes to stress that studies that benefit a large group rather than a small group will be favored. PROCEDURE OF CANDIDATES: Candidates cannot submit their outlines to both clinics. A choice must be made. I. A prospectus of the problem mu st be submitted by November 30. a. Studies for consideration for the Honor Research Awards of the National Gymnastic Clinic or the N ACGC (National Association of College Gymnastic Coaches) Eastern Award (USGF National Eastern Clinic) must be submitted to Dr. Harley Price, Florida State University, by November 30. The prospectus will then be passed on to the subcommittee of the Research Award Committee in order to decide the winning candidates. It will facilitate matters if several copies of the prospectus are sent to me. b. Studies for consideration for the NACGC Western Award and the Gym Master Grant at Tucson. Arizona . must be submitted to Dr. Gle nn Wilson. University of Arizona. Tucson. Arizona. 2. The Prospectus of the Research: a. The candidates should include the following points in their prospectus: (I) Outline the problem (2) Stat.e in hypotheses , (3) I ndlcate the methods to be used (4) Report the bibliography that was used in approaching the problem (5) Justify the research b. The deadline for the prospectus for this year's award will be: Nov. 30,1969. c. I ndicate the progress that has been made up to date on the research. d. The members of the subcommittee will decide what candidate will receive the award after studying the prospecti. Therefore. the prospecti should be very complete. e. Each recipient of the award is expected to publish his study in the Modern Gymnast or The Research Quarterly of the AAH PER.
$1,000 SCHOLARSHIP WARD MEYTHALER, 1969 All-American Gymnast from Iowa State University (1969 N CAA Ring Champion) with a 3.8 g.p.a. in political science , was among the 80 N CAA Senior athletes across the nation to receive a $ 1,000 Postgraduate Scholarship for the 196869 academic year. ... FRANK CUM ISKEY received a Service Award for 1969 from the New Jersey Gymnastic Association ... on the same evening DON WEIDER won the midnight handstand contest to become the " 1969 NJGA Handstand Champion" defeating defending champ WILLY WEINHOLDT. . . . TROY RICHARD WOLF blessed the home of DICK & LIZ WOLF on the first of August (Conditioning for Competition Wolf) .... DAN BUR KE is the new varsity gymnastic coach of Long Island University's Brooklyn Center.
JAPANESE COLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIPS The Japan NCAA Gymnastics Championships were held in Tokyo on 7/26/69. (The top winners. both men and women, Kenmotsu and Miss Oda, participated in the 1969 1st U SG F World C up) . Following are 'the results:
Men
Women
I. Kenmotsu 2. Ohara 3. Tsukahara
I. ada 2. Inouye 3. Mizukawa
REPORT ON THE MACCABIAH GAMES By Isadore Wasserman Just returned from Israel a nd one of the most exciting gym nastic events I've ever witnessed ... the eighth World Maccabiah games . I went as manager of the U.S. team, a nd I don ' t know when I' ve enjoyed any position more. Twentyeight nations were repre sented , and the gymnastic talent was outstanding. The U.S. Maccabiah Games Committee selected five men and two women to represent this nation in the games this past summer. Mark Co hn , the 1965 a ll-around champion , once again took top honors by winning the 1969 championship and go ld and silver medals to boot. Barry Weiner of Temple placed first in the high bar a nd floor exercise events and after several excellent performances wound up in third position in the all-around behind Dow Loufi of Israel. Fred Turoff, newly crowned ring champion In the America C up event in
Mexico , could only manage a fifth in the allaround event but garnered a gold in the rings and vaulting competitions. Joe Lito.v of Penn State, unfortunate ly s uffering from a bad case of bronchitis, and a newcomer with fantastic potenti a l, Seymour Rifkind , just out of high school in Skokie , Illinois , rounded out the team. Seymour will attend the University of New Mexico this year. Our two girl gymnasts, Laurie Siegel and Marilyn Pearson, were unable to compete because only two countries were represented. Nevertheless they earned gold medallions by participating with the winners of the men ' s competition. The I sraeli team was the best group of gymnasts in the country ' s Maccabiah Games history. Once again the P-bars gold meda l evaded our gymnasts when Dow Loufi a nnexed the title , nosing out Fred Turoff by 1/ 10 point. One of our most pleasant experiences as a team was going out on the town at the invitation of the I sraeli team a nd officials. Our congenial hosts brought us to Jaffa, where we were wined a nd dined and treated to an excellent show. The meet's closing ceremonies were held in the Ramat Gan Stadium before a n overflow audience of 50,000. Mark Cohn was honored to be chosen flag bearer, and the U.S. and Israeli gym nasts performed for the huge crowd. It was a fitting climax to a most impressive series of games .
International Gymnastics Learning Center Muriel Grossfeld , 1956 , 1960 a nd 1964 United States Olympic teams , 1968 United States Olympic Team Coach: Don Tonry, 1960 United States Olympic Team , 1962 National All-Around Champion , and Abie Grossfeld , 1956 and 1960 United States Olympic teams, 1966 United States World Championship Team Coach , were having a discussion on where to go on Christmas week. They had made it more than a IS-year habit to go to one of the Christmas clinics; first as gymnasts and in recent years as highly desired instructors and program directors. Part of their discussion centered around programming and the kind of clinic they would really like to do. They very naturally came to the conclusion that the only way to accomplish their goals would be to join force s and create their pwn clinic. One big question they had was why do gymnasts go to clinics? They felt the answer to this question was to learn gymnastics and not just to get a good suntan ; so the idea ofa Christmas Week Clinic Dec. 28 , 29 and 30 in the north crystallized. The three Olympians coach in New Haven , Conn. , at three separate facilities. They all possess the finest of facilities and equipment designed for training gymnasts at the highest level. Don Tonry's facility , Yale University, was chosen as the natural location for the first I nterna tional Gymnastics Learning Center. Yale ' s
CLOSEOUT - MEN'S GYMNASTIC PANTS 1968 MODEl Imported Gym Pants, Not Seconds or Rejects: White - Sizes XS S M L XL All-way stretch nylon - originally $13.00 now $8.25 - Exlan (orlon) & cotton, originally $6.00, now .. ' $4.00
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