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The National Rowing Foundation administers the Rowing Hall of Fame. To be eligible, a rower must have won a world or Olympic championship as a member of a United States national team. Contributors are individuals who have made unique and lasting contributions to the sport.

Hall of Fame archives include photographic, video and audio records of championship events, rowing artifacts, and other memorabilia.

The archives are stored and displayed at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT.

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Members

Coaches

InducteeYear
Thomas D. Bolles1956
Russell S. Callow1956
Hiram B. Conibear1956
Charles E. Courtney1956
Carroll M. "Ky" Ebright1956
Edwin O. Leader1956
James A. TenEyck1956
Alvin M. Ulbrickson1956
James A. Rathschmidt1961
Norman Sonju1961
Harry E. "Dad" Vail1963
Richard A. Glendon1970
Richard J. Glendon1970
Allen P. Rosenberg1970
J. Duncan Spaeth1971
Charles S. Walsh1973
Harry Parker1974
R. H. "Stork" Sanford1983
Richard Erickson1991

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Individual Athletes

InducteeYear
Raymond Anderson1956
Darcy Curwen1956
D. T. Eddy1956
Elwood Foote1956
Wayne Frye1956
Clyde W. King1956
Howard T. Kingsbury, Jr.1956
Charles Leuder1956
Arthur J. Osman1956
Rudolph Rauch1956
Howard W. Robbins1956
R. H. "Stork" Sanford1956
Frank B. Shakespeare1956
Edward G. Stevens1956
Alexander Strong1956
Frank Strong1956
John Collyer1958
Francis L. Higginson1958
Peter D. Donlan1959
John Leh1959
Richard Wailes1959
R.W. "Si" Weed1959
Donald F. Blessing1960
Edward N. Packard1960
Ellis Ward1960
W. Henry Ward1960
Gilbert Ward1960
Joshua Ward1960
John Gardiner1961
Clifford Goes1962
Horace E. Davenport1964
Cornelius S. Sebring1971
Theodore Garhart1972
Donald Grant1972

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Single Sculls

InducteeYear
Joseph W. Burk1956
Frank B. Greer1956
John B. Kelly, Sr.1956
John B. Kelly, Jr.1956
Edward H. TenEyck1958
Kenneth F. Burns1962
Donald M. Spero1966
Seymour Cromwell1977
Walter Hoover1978
Larry Klecatsky1978
William Beldon1978
Joan Lind1985
James Barker1991
Scott Roop1991
Kris Karlson1999

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Double Sculls

InducteeYear
1904 Atalanta/New York A.C.
(William M. Varley & John Mulcahy)
1956
1920 & 1924 Vesper/Penn A. C.
(Paul V. Costello & John B. Kelly, Sr.)
1956
1932 Bachelors Barge Club
(Kenneth Meyers & W. E. Gilmore)
1956
1956 Detroit Boat Club
(Bernard P. Costello, Jr. & James Gardiner)
1971
1969 Long Beach Rowing Assoc.
(John VanBlom & Thomas McKibbon)
1983
1984 U.S. Olympic Double
(Brad A. Lewis & Paul Enquist)
1989
1989 U.S. Women's Nat'l Team
(Kris Karlson & C. B. Sands)
1999

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Coxless Pairs

InducteeYear
1956 Navy/Stanford
(James Fifer & Duvall Hecht)
1960
1967-68-69 Potomac Boat Club
(Anthony Johnson & Lawrence Hough)
1971
1952 Rutgers University
(Chuck Logg Jr. & Thomas Price)
1981

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Coxed Pairs

InducteeYear
1964 Stanford Crew Assoc.
(Edward Ferry, Conn Findlay & Kent Mitchell, Cox)
1968
1956 Stanford Crew Assoc.
(Dan Ayrault, Conn Findlay & Kurt Seiffert, Cox)
2000

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Coxless Fours

InducteeYear
1878 Columbia College
(Edwin E. Sage, Cyrus Edson,
H. G. Ridabock & J. T. Godwin)
1962
1960 Lake Washington R. C.
(Arthur D. Ayrault, Theodore A. Nash,
Richard D. Wailes & John A. Sayer)
1965
1928 Penn. Barge Club
(Ernest H. Bayer, William G. Miller,
George A. Healis & Charles G. Karle)
1974
1956 Detroit Boat Club
(John Welchi, Arthur McKinlay,
John McKinlay & James McIntosh)
1980
1986 U.S. Men's National Camp
(Ted Swinford, Dan Lyons,
John Riley & Robert Espeseth)
1997
1986 U.S. Women's Nat'l Camp
(Carolyn Mehaffey, Sandy Kendall,
Mandi Kowal & Ann Martin)
1997
1987 U.S. Women's Nat'l Camp
(Sandy Kendall, Lindsay Burns,
Angie Herron & Mandi Kowal)
1998
1993 U.S. Men's Nat'l Camp
(Christopher Kerber, Jonathan Moss,
Thomas Beetham & Matthew Collins)
2004

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Coxed Fours

InducteeYear
1948 Univ. of Washington
(Gordon S. Giovanelli, Robert I. Will, Robert D. Martin,
Warren D. Westlund & Allen J. Morgan, Cox)
1975

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Eights

InducteeYear
1952 U.S. Naval Academy1956
1953 U.S. Naval Academy1956
1956 Yale University1958
1957 Cornell University1958
1914 Harvard University1963
1920 U.S. Naval Academy1964
1964 Vesper Boat Club1965
1928 Univ. Cal-Berkeley1967
1932 Univ. Cal-Berkeley1969
1900 Vesper Boat Club1970
1936 Univ. of Washington1971
1924 Yale University1972
1948 Univ. Cal-Berkeley1973
1929 Columbia University1974
1947 Harvard University1975
1930 Penn. Athletic Club1976
1955 Univ. of Pennsylvania1977
1946 Univ. of Wisconsin1977
1939 Univ. Cal-Berkeley1979
1974 U.S. Men's Nat'l Camp1984
1974 U.S. Ltwt. Nat'l. Camp1986
1980 U.S. Men's Nat'l Camp1990
1980 U.S. Women's Nat'l Camp1990
1984 U.S. Women's Nat'l Camp1994
1987 U.S. Men's Nat'l Camp1998

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Patrons

InducteeYear
Clifford Goes1956
Ben Wallis1956
Asa Bushnell1958
Dean Witter1961
Robert F. Herrick1963
U. T. Bradley1965
George Y. Pocock1966
Allison Danzig1968
Horace W. McCurdy1969
Albridge C. Smith, III1969
James D. Taylor1969
Edwin Harback1970
Richard Aronson1974
Jack T. Franklin1975
Samuel P. Goddard, Jr.1976
James H. Hoefer1979
Stanley P. Pocock1979
Michael J. Broderick1982
Ernestine Bayer, Sr.1984
John C. Bratten1984
Gail Pierson Cromwell1984
Fred Emerson1987
Julian Wolf1989
Charles S. Butt, Jr.1990
Peter Dreissigacker1990
Richard Dreissigacker1990
W. Hart Perry, Jr.1990
Richard S. Dunham1991
Frederick Hagerman1991
Martha S. Ferguson1996
William K. Engeman1998
Jack H. Frailey1998
Paul Fuchs1998

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