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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. Patrons 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
Richard Erickson1991
Richard A. Glendon1970
Richard J. Glendon1970
Edwin O. Leader1956
Harry Parker1974
James A. Rathschmidt1961
Allen P. Rosenberg1970
R. H. "Stork" Sanford1983
Norman Sonju1961
J. Duncan Spaeth1971
James A. TenEyck1956
Mike Teti2010
Alvin M. Ulbrickson1956
Harry E. "Dad" Vail1963
Charles S. Walsh1973

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Individual Athletes

InducteeYear
Raymond Anderson1956
Donald F. Blessing1960
Thomas Bohrer2010
John Collyer1958
Darcy Curwen1956
Horace E. Davenport1964
Peter D. Donlan1959
D. T. Eddy1956
Elwood Foote1956
Wayne Frye1956
John Gardiner1961
Theodore Garhart1972
Clifford Goes1962
Donald Grant1972
Francis L. Higginson1958
Amy Fuller Kearney2010
Clyde W. King1956
Howard T. Kingsbury, Jr.1956
John Leh1959
Charles Leuder1956
Arthur J. Osman1956
Edward N. Packard1960
Rudolph Rauch1956
Howard W. Robbins1956
R. H. "Stork" Sanford1956
Cornelius S. Sebring1971
Frank B. Shakespeare1956
Edward G. Stevens1956
Alexander Strong1956
Frank Strong1956
Andrew Sudduth2010
Richard Wailes1959
Ellis Ward1960
W. Henry Ward1960
Gilbert Ward1960
Joshua Ward1960
R. W. "Si" Weed1959

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Single Sculls

InducteeYear
James Barker1991
William Beldon1978
Joseph W. Burk1956
Kenneth F. Burns1962
Seymour Cromwell1977
James W. Dietz2010
Frank B. Greer1956
Walter Hoover1978
Kris Karlson1999
John B. Kelly, Sr.1956
John B. Kelly, Jr.1956
Larry Klecatsky1978
Anne Marden Grainger2010
Scott Roop1991
Donald M. Spero1966
Edward H. TenEyck1958
Joan Lind1985

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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
1952 Rutgers University
(Chuck Logg Jr. & Thomas Price)
1981
1956 Navy/Stanford
(James Fifer & Duvall Hecht)
1960
1967-68-69 Potomac Boat Club
(Anthony Johnson & Lawrence Hough)
1971
2000 Olympics
(Karen Rigsby & Missy Schwen Ryan)
2010

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Coxed Pairs

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

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Coxless Fours

InducteeYear
1878 Columbia College
(Edwin E. Sage, Cyrus Edson,
H. G. Ridabock & J. T. Godwin)
1962
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
1960 Lake Washington R. C.
(Arthur D. Ayrault, Theodore A. Nash,
Richard D. Wailes & John A. Sayer)
1965
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
1900 Vesper Boat Club1970
1914 Harvard University1963
1920 U.S. Naval Academy1964
1924 Yale University1972
1928 Univ. Cal-Berkeley1967
1929 Columbia University1974
1930 Penn. Athletic Club1976
1932 Univ. Cal-Berkeley1969
1936 Univ. of Washington1971
1939 Univ. Cal-Berkeley1979
1946 Univ. of Wisconsin1977
1947 Harvard University1975
1948 Univ. Cal-Berkeley1973
1952 U.S. Naval Academy1956
1953 U.S. Naval Academy1956
1955 Univ. of Pennsylvania1977
1956 Yale University1958
1957 Cornell University1958
1964 Vesper Boat Club1965
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
2004 U.S. Olympic Eight2010

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Patrons

InducteeYear
Richard Aronson1974
Ernestine Bayer, Sr.1984
U. T. Bradley1965
John C. Bratten1984
Michael J. Broderick1982
Asa Bushnell1958
Charles S. Butt, Jr.1990
Allison Danzig1968
Anita DeFrantz2010
Peter Dreissigacker1990
Richard Dreissigacker1990
Richard S. Dunham1991
Fred Emerson1987
William K. Engeman1998
Martha S. Ferguson1996
Jack H. Frailey1998
Jack T. Franklin1975
Paul Fuchs1998
Samuel P. Goddard, Jr.1976
Clifford Goes1956
Frederick Hagerman1991
Edwin Harback1970
Robert F. Herrick1963
James H. Hoefer1979
Horace W. McCurdy1969
W. Hart Perry, Jr.1990
Gail Pierson Cromwell1984
George Y. Pocock1966
Stanley P. Pocock1979
Albridge C. Smith, III1969
James D. Taylor1969
Ben Wallis1956
Dean Witter1961
Julian Wolf1989

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