Resumés

This page will briefly expose esteemed members' sins of the past and maybe some accomplishments. Feel free to submit, recommend or correct material to your webmaster.

Bob Brayton - US National team. Silver in the 2- at Pan Am games in 1963. In 1967, Bronze at European Champ and Gold at the Pan Am games in 4-.

Dick Draeger - Bronze in the 2+ at 1960 Olympics.
NEW! Dick passed away February 8th, 2016.

Dick Findlay - GB National team. Olympian in '72.

Woody Fisher - Coached the lightweight team at the 1973 European Championships. Coached the lightweight 4 to a bronze at the 1974 World Championships and was an assistant coach at the 1976 Olympics.

Charlie Hamlin - US National team. 5th in the 4- at the 1968 Olympics. 9th in the 8+ at the 1969 European Championships.
NEW! Charlie passed away May 23rd, 2021. Here is a wonderful memorial by Ed Hewitt of row2k.com.

Tony Johnson - US National team. Rowed the 2- at Tokyo Olympics in '64. Bronze at Euro Champs in 1965 in 8+. Gold in the 2- at 1967 Euro Champs and Pan Ams and silver at the 1968 Games.

Ted Kakas - US National team at the 1966 World Champs in Bled in the 8+. Recipient in 2014 of the USRowing John J. Carlin award for "significant and outstanding commitments to the sport of rowing".

Paul Knight - US National team. World Champs in 1977 in 4-. Also Chair of the USRowing Grievance Panel.

Dick Lyon - US National team and 2x Olympian '64 and '72. Bronze in the 4- in Tokyo. 9th in the pair in '72. 9th in the 4- at the '66 World Championships.
NEW! Dick passed away July 8th, 2019. Here is a remembrance posted on the olympians.co website

Dan Sayner - 1977 U. S. National Team 4+, 1980 U.S. Olympic Team 4-, 1980 Henley Royal Regatta Stewards' Challenge Cup winner.

Duncan Spencer - US National team at the 1965 European Championships in the 4+, rowed for Oxford in three Boat Races, 1963-65 and won two.

Phil Stekl - US National team, in the 8+ at the 1979 Pan Am games (gold) and the World Championships, 1980 Olympic team in the 4+, 1983 World Championships in the 8+ and Silver at the '84 Olympics in the 4-.

John Van Blom - US National team. Competed in the 2X and 4X or coached in five Olympic games ('68, '72, '76, '80 and '84), two Pan Am games, two European Championships and seven World Championships. Highlights: gold at the '69 Pan Am games, bronze at the '70 Worlds and '71 Pan Am games and coached the women's 4X to silver at the '84 Olympics and the women's 2X to bronze at the '77 and '78 Worlds.

Paul Guest - From an email dated Nov 24, 2012 - "Just to recap history, here are some slides (1959 and 1960 were not represented) that “quietly” played at the Paul Guest Rowing Luncheon at the Australian Club last Friday where Drew [Ginn] was the Guest speaker. They snuck in our OI HOCR crew which was very good!

In the 1962 Kings Cup (that is our National 8 oared title contested between the States. Each State selects their representative crew after a season of State club events culminating in the State Championships. It is a long journey to selection). In that crew I was 7, it won and with one change went on to come 5^th in the 1^st World Rowing Championships in Lucern. In the Commonwealth Games crew (Gold medal - England 3rd) I was 5; the winning 1963 Kings Cup crew I was 4 in the tandem (Dave Ramage was 6); the winning 1964 crew at the Kings Cup and Olympic trials I was 5 (Dave Ramage was 4); they left out the 1966 Australian 8 (that year I raced against Ted Kakas at Bled); (from 1967 to 1968 I concentrated with Dave Ramage in the 2- and 4- where we won the 1968 Australian C’ships Olympic Trials in both those events); in the winning 1969 and 1970 Kings Cup crews I was 4 in the tandem (Dave was bow in the 1969 crew) and five of the 1970 crew were selected in the Australian 8 for the WC in St Catherine’s where we raced (as I understand it) against Bob Brayton and Dick Findlay) and came 5^th; in 1972, we lost at the Australian C’ships so I tossed it in and spent the next 20 odd years practising law, marathon running and long distance swimming, returning to rowing in 1994 and racing Woody et al in Bled in 1995 (showing a clean pair of heels I might add!). Since 1997 I have rowed Masters with Banks Rowing Club where we ruled the Australian scene until about 2008 when our numbers dwindled and we were forced to go composite. In 2002 we had a magnificent E4+ and F8+ which won (including races against Dick Draeger and other US celebrities in the Kent Mitchell crew).

Just a touch of ancient Aussie history.

Cheers,

Paul."