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A. Winsor Weld
Elected 1976
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Amateur figure skating in America after World War I was far different than today. At that time in figure skating, many organizations were competing for control of the sport. Weld recognized the need for a strong and independent national governing body for figure skating. He became a major force behind the formation of the United States Figure Skating Association in 1921. Before the Association's founding, figure skating fell under the control of the International Skating Union of America (ISU of A), which also controlled speed skating in both Canada and the United States.
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At the annual meeting of the ISU of A in 1921, a request was made that control of American figure skating be given to those directly involved. As a result, representatives from the major skating centers met in New York. The result was the establishment of the USFSA, the election of officers, and the adoption of a constitution and bylaws. A. Winsor Weld was elected the first President. As President, he supervised the creation of the USFSA’s first rules and competitions. After his term as President, which ended in 1925, Weld was elected an Honorary President.
Heaton R. Robertson
Elected 1977
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Heaton Robertson's involvement in skating began in the 1920s and lasted for over 30 years. Robertson actively competed during the 1920s while at the same time serving as a referee, judge, and accountant. He became Chairman of the Competitions and Rules Committee in 1925 and subsequently held the chairmanships of the Eastern, Judges, and Test Committees. Robertson also served as USFSA Treasurer from 1928 to 1940 and President from 1940 to 1943.
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One of Heaton Robertson's greatest contributions was in the field of technical and educational publications. He assisted in the preparation of the first Judges Manual, written in 1942. In 1947, he wrote the booklet "What Judges Are Looking For in School Figures and Free Skating." His best-known work was "Evaluation of School Figure Errors," published in 1945.
Henry M. Beatty
Elected 1977
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Henry Beatty served the USFSA in various capacities for more than 25 years. Beatty became a member of the Executive Committee in 1940 and served continuously until his retirement in 1967. During this time, he served as chairman of four standing and three special committees. In 1946, he became USFSA President and served until 1949.
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Shortly after World War II, Beatty was appointed a World Referee. He served in that capacity in eight World and three North American Championships, as well as the 1964 Olympic Games. In 1961, when ISU Representative Walter Powell lost his life in the tragic airplane crash at Brussels, Beatty stepped in as ISU Representative. At the 1961 ISU Congress meeting, he was elected to the Council, a position he held until his retirement in 1967.
William Thayer Tutt
Elected 1991
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William Thayer Tutt was elected in the category of those who have made a noteworthy contribution to the sport in a non-skating capacity. He was instrumental in establishing a skating center at the Colorado Springs Broadmoor Hotel and in sponsoring five World Figure Skating Championships and one World Junior Figure Skating Championship at the Broadmoor World Arena.
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He was also instrumental in making possible the relocation of the USFSA Headquarters and the World Figure Skating Museum to its present site in 1979. Tutt received the International Olympic Committee Olympic Order in recognition of his contributions to and support of the Olympic movement.
Walter S. Powell
Elected 1993
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Walter Powell was USFSA President from 1943 to 1946. He was the first U.S. officeholder in the International Skating Union, as a Council member from 1946 to 1961. In addition, he was instrumental in obtaining separate ISU membership for the U.S. and Canada in 1947. Powell was killed in the 1961 plane crash that took the lives of the entire U.S. World Team.
Harry N. Keighley
Elected 1993
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Harry Keighley was USFSA President from 1949 to 1952 and Secretary from 1943 to 1947. Keighley also served as Chairman of the International Committee from 1952 to 1955, of the Dance Committee from 1955 to 1956 and again from 1959 to 1962, and of the Judges Committee from 1968 to 1970. He also became Third Vice-President from 1956 to 1958, one of only a few Past-Presidents to do so.
Fredrick F. LeFevre
Elected 1997
​Fredrick LeFevre was the past President of US Skating from 1970 - 73. He was a member of the Troy Figure Skating Club (Troy, Ohio) and served as a Sectional Referee, Gold Test Judge, and Gold Dance Test Judge. He was elected to the Executive Committee in 1961 and served as Membership Chairman, Amateur Status Chairman, and First Vice-Chairman for the Midwestern Section.
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Benjamin T. Wright
Elected 1997
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Benjamin Wright has been active within the USFSA and the ISU for more than 40 years. He served as a referee and judge at 22 World Championships and four Olympic Winter Games. Wright also was a member and chair of the ISU Figure Skating Technical Committee from 1973-1992. On the national level, he holds the titles of referee, judge, and accountant. He was the 18th President of the USFSA, serving from 1973 to 1976. Throughout his involvement, he has dedicated himself to preserving the history of the sport and has authored the official histories of the ISU and USFSA. He is credited with the founding of the World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame in 1976 and served as chair for 23 years.
Oscar Iobst
Elected 1998
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Oscar served on the USFSA Board of Directors from 1971-1983; as the Eastern Vice-President from 1978-1980; led the organization as President from 1980-1983, and served as interim Executive Director from 1992-1993. He is also a national-level referee and judge for all four figure skating disciplines.
Harold Hartshorne
Elected 1981
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Harold Hartshorne competed in 15 National Championships, 14 Sectionals, 2 Regionals, and 26 Middle Atlantics. He was the winner of 26 gold, 25 silver, and 15 bronze medals. Hartshorne, with his dance partner, Nettie Prantell, won the National Dance Championship in 1937 and 1938. With a new partner, Sandy Mac Donald, he retained the title in 1939, 1940, and 1941. Hartshorne was instrumental in the development and standardization in the United States of the modern international dances. He became a National Dance Judge in 1938, subsequently rising to the rank of World Dance Judge in 1951 and World Dance Referee in 1960. In 1959 he was elected to the ISU Dance Committee. In addition, he served as Chairman of the USFSA Dance Committee from 1938 to 1941, as a member of the Executive Committee in 1950, 1952–1955, and 1959–1961. Both Harold Hartshorne and his wife were killed in the 1961 airplane accident that claimed the lives of the entire U.S. Team.
George H. Browne
Elected 1983
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An enthusiastic skater from an early age, George Browne was a leading proponent of the "International Style" of skating. In 1902 he spent the winter in Davos, Switzerland. There he became a member of the International Skating Club and studied extensively with the leading skaters of the time. Upon returning from Europe, Browne began a campaign to popularize the new style in America. The first exhibition of which occurred in 1908.
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Not content to promote the acceptance of the new style, George Browne produced several instructional books. They were pocket-sized to carry on the ice for easy reference. In addition to being an author, Browne also invented and improved blades in 1916 and developed a standard schedule of tests. The first of these tests were held in 1900.
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Having developed uniform standards, Browne sought unsuccessfully to bring some of the established skating clubs into the ISU. But his efforts led to the establishment of the USFSA in 1921, of which he was the first Secretary. The USFSA was admitted into the ISU in 1923.
Chuck Foster
Elected 2003
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Chuck Foster has been involved in figure skating for many years. As a competitor, he was the 1955 U.S. junior pairs champion with partner Maribel Yerxa Owen. He continued to be involved with skating following his competitive career by becoming a World judge. He was US Figure Skating vice president from 1988 to 1989, a member of the Board of Directors for 17 years, and was elected President in 2003. He also served as the US Figure Skating representative to the International Skating Union from 1989–90; the United States Olympic Committee Secretary from 1989–1996; and was the “Chef De Mission” for the 1994 U.S. Olympic Team in Lillehammer, Norway.
Hugh C. Graham, Jr.
Elected 2004
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Hugh C. Graham, Jr., M.D., was the 1949 U.S. novice champion, the 1953 and 1954 U.S. pairs (with Margaret Anne Graham) silver medalist, and the 1955 U.S. bronze medalist. He began judging in 1952 and became a national and world judge and a world referee. He was a judge at the 1980 and 1992 Olympic Winter Games and a U.S. team leader for various international competitions.
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As an official of U.S. Figure Skating, Graham was Chair of the Competitions Committee, Chair of the Amateur Status Committee, Vice President (1973-1974, 1983-1986), and President (1986-1989). He also served as a consultant on President Ford’s Commission on Olympic Sports and in 2004 became the first President of the World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame.
Charles DeMore
Elected 2008
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Charles DeMore began his skating career at the Cleveland Skating Club. The former ice dancer passed the pre-silver ice dancing tests and attended numerous Lake Placid dance weeks. He is best known for his many years of administrative work for U.S. Figure Skating. He served as co-chair of the U.S. Championships in Cleveland in 1964. In 1968 he was appointed a national accountant and was the chief accountant for the 1974 U.S. Championships in Providence, R.I. DeMore has served on several other U.S. Figure Skating committees.
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DeMore was vice president of U.S. Figure Skating from 1974-76 and president from 1976-80. During his presidency, DeMore was instrumental in leading the relocation of U.S. Figure Skating Headquarters from Boston, Mass., to Colorado Springs, Colo., which included property acquisition, financing, and construction.
Anne Gerli
Elected in 2015
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Figure skating innovator Anne Gerli is credited with creating two important programs: the accelerated judges program, which encourages high-level test and competitive skaters to become judges, and the young internationals program, which sent young skaters to European nonqualifying competitions to gain experience.
Her interest in developing and promoting young American figure skaters was the driving force behind the creation of the U.S. Junior Championships. The Skating Club of New York member and national judge for more than 70 years at the time of her induction, Gerli has served U.S. Figure Skating as vice president (1985), Olympic representative (1981-82), U.S. World Team leader (1985), and has chaired numerous committees.
Claire Ferguson
Elected in 2018
Claire Waters Ferguson blazed a trail for women in the sport's leadership ranks. In 1992, she became the first female president of U.S. Figure Skating, and in 1994 became the first American woman elected to the International Skating Union Council and International Federation for Figure Skaters.
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Before her presidency, Ferguson was an Olympic Team Leader and longtime judge. She received her 50-year judge's pin in 2011 and is one of only 14 Honorary Members of the International Skating Union.
Ferguson was a progressive leader through tumultuous times for the sport. She led the organization through the much-publicized 1994 attack on Nancy Kerrigan, which put a spotlight on the sport and paved the way for lucrative television contracts.
During her term, the International Olympic Committee loosened its eligibility rules regarding professionals and amateurs, prompting Ferguson to take the controversial position that skaters had the right to earn money. In response, U.S. Figure Skating developed international "pro/am" competitions, which sanctioned skaters and brought more televised events for figure skating.
Other highlights during Ferguson's four-year term include the restructuring of U.S. Figure Skating headquarters' operations and staff; abolishing athlete trust funds in favor of athlete contracts; developing and implementing Moves in the Field; and the creation of the U.S. Adult Championships.
Sandy Lamb
Inducted 2021
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Sandy Lamb was a fixture of the Special Olympics Skating Program and the first female president of the Professional Skaters Association (1983). Lamb developed the Special Olympics Skating Program in 1985 and served as its longtime skating director. She chaired the U.S. Figure Skating’s Special Olympics/Therapeutic Committee and served on the Coaches, Dance, Basic Skills, Tests, and Memorial Fund Committees. In 1976, Lamb became an Olympic coach, leading U.S. ice dancers Judi Genovesi and Kent Weigle at the first Olympic ice dance competition in Innsbruck, Austria, where they finished 15th. Lamb was inducted into the PSA Coaches Hall of Fame in 2014. Lamb was a longtime member of The Winter Club of Indianapolis.
PAUL E. GEORGE
Elected 2023
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For nearly 50 years, Paul George has served the club level, World Teams and the U.S. Olympic Movement, earning his way into the Hall of Fame as an outstanding contributor.
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Among George’s most notable contributions has been through his long-term leadership as president and trustee of the U.S. Figure Skating Foundation from 2003-22. Under his leadership, the Foundation has grown several times from its modest beginnings. Since 2008, the Foundation has contributed more than $45 million to athletes and vital U.S. Figure Skating programs.
“Mr. George’s solid leadership as president and trustee of the U.S. Figure Skating Foundation has helped provide U.S. Figure Skating the underlying financial stability to continue its many programs,” Dalley said.
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George has a long history of serving the USOPC, including as the vice president and director of the U.S. Olympic Committee (1996-2004) and as the chef de mission of the U.S. Delegation at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. He was also the Olympic representative for figure skating (1989-1994).
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George has served U.S. Figure Skating since becoming a judge in 1969. His many volunteer roles include being a U.S. Figure Skating Association director (1989-94) and team leader of the 1976 and 1977 U.S. World teams. At the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, George was figure skating’s team manager. George also served on many high-profile committees.
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A 60-year member of The Skating Club of Boston, in 2022 George received the inaugural Mary Louise and Benjamin T. Wright Award for his service to the Club, U.S. Figure Skating and the U.S. Olympic Movement. A competitive skater in his youth, he competed in three U.S. Championships and was the 1962 U.S. junior pairs champion and Eastern Senior pairs champion with his sister, Elizabeth. They were coached by two-time U.S. Hall-of-Fame member Maribel Vinson Owen.
Charlie Cyr
Inducted 2024
Charlie Cyr, an Olympic judge and ISU official, contributed significantly to the development of the sport, including the creation of the International Judging System (IJS), which replaced the longstanding 6.0 system. In 2014, Cyr became the first North American to be appointed ISU sports director for figure skating, a position he held until he resigned in 2023 due to health reasons.
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Cyr was a prolific official, earning national, international and ISU championship appointments across singles, pairs, dance, synchronized skating, technical panel and data and video operator. He served at five Olympic Winter Games: U.S. team leader (2002), NBC Sports crew (2006), ice dance judge (2010), and ISU sports director (2018, ’22). Cyr, a member of the All Year Figure Skating Club for more than 20 years, also served as Pacific Vice Chair on U.S. Figure Skating’s Board of Directors.
OFFICIALS
Jane Vaughn Sullivan
Elected 1996
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Jane Vaughn Sullivan won the U.S. Ladies’ title in 1941 and 1942. Jane had been 1936 Novice Champion. Due to World War II, the World and Olympic Championships were canceled. This prevented her from competing in those events. She also served as Olympic, World, and National level judge.
Ardelle Kloss Sanderson
Elected 1991
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Ardelle Sanderson won the National Junior Pair title in 1937 with partner Roland Janson. She has been a highly respected judge for over 50 years, as a National and International Dance judge, National Precision judge, ISU, World and Olympic Judge. She has judged at over 80 competitions.
Mary Louise Wright
Elected 2005​
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Mary Louise Wright Mary Louise Wright enjoyed a long career in figure skating. She became the 24th skater to pass the gold figure test and captured the silver medal for senior ladies and senior dance with Arthur Preusch |r. at the Midwestern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in 1942. Wright also excelled as a skating judge. She received her first appointment as a judge in 1939 and became a national judge in 1943. Between 1948-1961 she added appointments as a national dance judge, an international judge, a world judge and a world dance judge. Wright's judging resume included 13 World Figure Skating Championships, two Olympic Winter Games (1964 and 1992), four North American Championships and 30 U.S. Championships
Deane McMinn
Elected 2011
Deane McMinn (1916–1961) was a figure skating judge who was serving as team manager for the United States Figure Skating team attending the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships. He was killed along with all other members of the team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 en route to the competition.
McMinn, who was born in Danforth, Maine and lived in Lomita, California, was a former ice dancer who competed at the regional and sectional level in the early 1950s.[1] He judged at the 1960 Winter Olympics and 1961 North American Figure Skating Championships in addition to many competitions in the United States.[2] For example, at the 1960 United States Figure Skating Championships, McMinn was on the judging panel for all four championship-level events
Edward LeMaire
Inducted 2011
Edward LeMaire (October 26, 1924 – February 15, 1961) was an American figure skater who competed in pairs and men's singles. In pairs, he won the junior title at the United States Figure Skating Championships in 1942 and won a bronze medal in senior pairs the following year with Dorothy Goos. Also in 1943, he captured the junior men's national title.
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Away from the ice, LeMaire attended Yale University and the University of Nevada. He was also a Navy pilot during World War II.
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Later in his life, he was a skating judge. He was en route to the World Figure Skating Championships in 1961 when his plane (Sabena Flight 548) crashed near Brussels, Belgium, killing all on board. LeMaire was 36 at the time of his death. His 14-year-old son Richard was also killed in the crash.
Gale Tanger
Elected 2021
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At the time of induction, Gale Tanger had served over 50 years as a judge and official, officiating at 33 ISU Championships, 25 Grand Prix events, 22 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and 23 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships. She holds all National positions in the United States. The ISU honored Tanger with its Gold Medal of Honor for outstanding contribution and distinguished service. The PSA named her Official of the Year in 2017, 2010, and 2006.
Tanger, who served at six Olympic Winter Games in various capacities, is the first woman chair of the U.S. Olympic Committee Winter Sports Organizations.
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A longtime Board member of the Wisconsin Figure Skating Club and Pettit National Ice Center, she and her husband Tom Tanger started the Skate Milwaukee competition and the Tanger Scholarship for athlete-scholars.
Lucy Joyce Brennan
Elected 2022
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At the time of induction, Lucy Joyce Brennan had served over 60 years as a judge and referee. A two-time Olympic judge (1988, 2002), Brennan is the first American woman to serve as an ISU Championship Referee in singles and pairs. She has judged and refereed at multiple World Championships, Junior Worlds, Grand Prix events including the Final, European Championships, and Four Continents Championships.
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Brennan served as the Skating Club of New York's Test Chair for more than 25 years and represented the SCNY as a Governing Council Delegate since 1980. She has served on over 60 U.S. Figure Skating committees since 1992. Brennan and Anne Gerli created the past Junior Nationals and Young Internationals, which sent young elite athletes to competitions abroad.
Brennan has received numerous awards, including the 2006 ISU Gold Award of Merit.
Margaretta Drake
Elected 2002
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Margaretta Drake was born in Green Bay, Wis., to Canadian parents. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1924 and skated competitively in the 1930s, winning the Midwestern ice dancing championships. Following her amateur career, she focused on judging with a special interest in ice dancing. In 1955, Drake was appointed a national dance referee. From 1936–88 she judged 20 regional championships, 22 sectional championships, 10 U.S. Championships, four North American Championships (in 1947 as the only woman judge), and three World Championships. Drake served on numerous U.S. Figure Skating committees and was the first female member from the Midwest on the U.S. Figure Skating Association Executive Committee (1952–55). She was honored in 1988 by U.S. Figure Skating for 54 years of volunteer service.
Nancy Meiss
Elected 2009
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Nancy Meiss began judging in 1958 and received her 50-year judge award in 2008. Meiss has been a national, World, and Olympic judge, earning the latter title for her service at the 1988 Olympic Winter Games. She was one of the first members of the Queen City Figure Skating Club in her hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, and served as president from 1971–74. She is a lifetime honorary member of the club.
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Meiss served as co-chair of the 1979 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. She was co-chair of the practice ice at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games and the 1987 World Figure Skating Championships. Meiss has served on numerous U.S. Figure Skating committees, including the Hall of Fame and Museum Committee. She received the Jimmy Disbrow Award and the Professional Skaters Association’s F. Ritter Shumway Award in 2004.
Bob Horen
Elected 2025
Bob Horen has been a leader in the U.S. ice dance program for more than two decades. He has been an ISU judge, technical controller, and referee for ice dance for more than 25 years and a U.S. Figure Skating judge and referee for singles, pairs, and ice dance for more than 40 years. A 1998 Olympic ice dance judge, he has served as a referee, technical panel member, and judge at numerous World, Junior World, European Championships, and Grand Prix Series events. Horen, the first American elected to the ISU Ice Dance Technical Committee (2006-16), was among those tasked with changing the long-standing “compulsory dance” to accommodate the new IJS rules and proposed the“short dance,” now known as the “rhythm dance.” He was awarded the ISU Gold Medal of Excellence in 2017 and served as U.S. team leader for the 2000 World Championships in Nice, France. Horen has served U.S. Figure Skating as a member of the board of directors, and board vice president and has been a chair and vice chair of many committees, including International, Dance, Competitions, Judges, and Referees. On a local level, he served on the boards of The Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society, the Arctic Blades FigureSkating Club, and is the founding member and first president of the Arizona Figure Skating Club.
INNOVATORS
Roy Shipstad
Elected 1995
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Boyhood friends, Eddie Shipstad, Roy Shipstad, and Oscar Johnson developed a comedy skating act in 1924. This brought them numerous invitations to appear in skating carnivals. Their success culminated in a long-term engagement at the College Inn in Chicago. There they skated on a small rink measuring 20' by 40'. The success of their performances in Chicago prompted Shipstad and Johnson to form a small touring show in 1936, Shipstad’s and Johnson Ice Follies. This was the first show of its kind.
The show featured Eddie's brother Roy, Bess Ehrhardt, Lois Dworshak, Everett McGowan, Ruth Mack, Heine Brock, and the Nelson Sisters. Eddie and Oscar provided additional comedy and were the show's producers. Roy Shipstad also created the original character of Mr. Debonaire.
Tom Collins
Elected 1997
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Tom Collins is the producer and founder of the Campbell’s Soups Tour of World Figure Skating Champions. Collins joined the Sonja Henie’s Ice Revue, in New York City, when he was only seventeen. Later he became a featured performer and toured with Holiday on Ice.
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In 1974 he had an idea to stage a small tour of national and international champions following the 1975 World Championships. The initial success of that tour laid the groundwork for the Campbell’s Soups Tour. The Tour begun in 1980 has included many of the world’s greatest names in the sport of figure skating.
Frank Zamboni
Elected 2000
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Frank Zamboni was the inventor and manufacturer of the first mechanical ice resurfacer in 1949. His name has become synonymous with the machine. Its development made possible advancements in both the sport of figure skating and indoor rinks. Over 4000 machines are in use today around the world.
Doug Wilson
2003
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Doug Wilson is the producer and director of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships for ABC Sports. Beginning in 1964, he participated in the TV production of ten Olympic Winter Games covering the sport of figure skating for world audiences estimated at 400 million. He has also produced many specials including “Canvas of Ice,” a special with Brian Boitano and Katarina Witt that was filmed outdoors in Alaska. Doug Wilson is the winner of 17 Emmy Awards; the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports Directing from the Directors Guild of America; and the Distinguished Service Award from the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation for his production of the International Special Olympics.
Charles Schulz
Elected 2007
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Charles Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minn., and grew up in St. Paul with a passion for figure skating and ice hockey. He was the creator and cartoonist of Peanuts © UFS, Inc., which debuted on Oct. 2, 1950, in seven newspapers. This comic strip launched Schulz to worldwide fame. Schulz’s comic strips detailed the Peanuts gang's adventures—and misadventures—on the ice and reflected the cartoonist’s intimate knowledge of skating acquired from his real-life experiences. The cartoon strip ran nearly 50 uninterrupted years in more than 2,600 newspapers worldwide.
The last original strip ran one day after Schulz's death on Feb. 12, 2000, honoring his family’s wish for the strip to end when he was no longer able to produce it. In addition to being featured in more than 63 award-winning specials, 1,400 books, four feature films, and a Broadway musical, the National Cartoonists Society in 1962 named Peanuts the "Best Humor Strip of the Year." In 1968, Schulz built the Redwood Empire Ice Arena in Santa Rosa, Calif., which was famous for its annual ice shows held from 1986-2003.
Vera Wang
Elected 2009
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Vera Wang, a resident of New York City, began skating as an 8-year-old when she received a pair of ice skates one Christmas. She won her first regional championship at 12 and competed twice at the U.S. Championships in junior pairs. Wang rocked the fashion world by becoming the youngest-ever Vogue fashion editor at 23, allowing her to collaborate with the most renowned personalities in the world of fashion. She later became director of women's accessories at Ralph Lauren. In 1990, Wang founded her own company. Known as a fashion designer for high-profile actresses and film stars, Wang's name is also associated with a full range of personal items including china, fragrance, and stationery.
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She eventually returned to her skating roots by designing costumes for two-time Olympic medalists Nancy Kerrigan and Michelle Kwan. In 2007, she launched “Simply Vera Wang” at Kohl's department stores in the United States. Wang has received many prestigious awards, including Womenswear Designer of the Year in 2005 from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Albert Beard
Elected in 2014
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Technical pioneer Albert Beard brought computerized scoring to U.S. Figure Skating events, which revolutionized the sport by bringing results to fans in minutes.
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At the 1972 U.S. Championships, Beard used a remote mainframe computer and dial-up Internet to launch this fundamental change in the sport, making U.S. Figure Skating the first skating federation in the world to use computerized event scoring.
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Using only the U.S. Figure Skating Rulebook as his guide, Beard named his creation “HAL” after the evil computer in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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At the time of his induction, Beard served as a longtime national accountant and sectional data and video operator. HAL, too, continued to serve at all U.S. events.
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Administrators
Henry M Beaty | Class of 1977
George Browne | Class of 1983
Charlie Cyr | Class of 2024
Charles DeMore | Class of 2008
Chuck Foster | Class of 2003
Claire Ferguson | Class of 2018
Paul George | Class of 2023
Ann Gerli | Class of 2015
Dr. Huch C Grahm | Class of 2004
William O Hickox | Class of 1981
Harry Keighley | Class of 1993
Sandy Lamb | Class of 1921
Fred LeFevre | Class of 1997
Walter Powell | Class of 1973
Gale Tanger | Class of 2021
Ben Wright | Class of 1997
Heaton R Robertson | Class of 1977
Ardelle Sanderson | Class of 1991
Joe Serafine | Class of 1996
F. Ritter Shumway | Class of 1986
Jane Sullivan | Class of 1996
William Thayer Tutt | Class of 1991
A Winsor Weld | Class of 1976
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Officials
Lucy Brennan | Class of 2022
Charlie Cyr | Class of 2024
Margaretta Drake | Class of 2002
Harold Hartshorne | Class of 2011
​William O Hickox | Class of 2011
Robert Horen | Class of 2025
Edward LeMaire | Class of 2011
Deane E McMinn | Class of 2011
Nancy Meiss | Class of 2009
Gale Tanger | Class of 2021
Mary Louise Wright | Class of 2005
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Innovators
Albert Beard | Class of 2014
Tom Collina | Class of 1998
Roy Shipstad | Class of 1995
Oscar Johnson | Class of 1976
Edie Shipstad | Class of 1976
Charles Schultz | Class of 2006
Vera Wang | Class of 2009
Doug Wilson | Class of 2003
Frank Zamboni | Class of 2000
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