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number of government councils. The couple were married for over thirty years. She served as a professor of art history at
Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, for 29 years, after moving there in 1960. She was also, for half that time, Wofford's fencing coach for both men and women in saber, epee, and foil. She first learned fencing while a student at the
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In Team competition, he was a member of the U.S. national three-weapon championship teams for the
Fencers Club of New York four times (1929, 1932, 1933, and 1935), the team sabre champions in 1934 and the team epee champions in 1939. He remained in the New York area until 1960.
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