/* Image w/ description tooltip v2.0 * Created: April 23rd, 2010. This notice must stay intact for usage * Author: Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ * Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code */ var ddimgtooltip={ tiparray:function(){ var tooltips=[] //define each tooltip below: tooltip[inc]=['path_to_image', 'optional desc', optional_CSS_object] //For desc parameter, backslash any special characters inside your text such as apotrophes ('). Example: "I\'m the king of the world" //For CSS object, follow the syntax: {property1:"cssvalue1", property2:"cssvalue2", etc} tooltips[0]=[src="Graphics/InductedAlvah.jpg", "Alvah (Linda) Hadley, along with her husband, Ray,ran the Hadley and Hart Skating School in Seattle. Linda had skated professionally under the name of Linda Hart. She coached her two children, Ila Ray and Ray Hadley, who were members of the 1961 U.S. World Skating Team and were aboard the ill-fated plane crash in Brussels. Her husband was supposed to join the family in Prague the day after they were to have landed.", {background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[1]=[src="Graphics/InductedBill.jpg","William Swallender was a Senior Mens Midwestern champion and went on to skate with the Ice Follies. He was the first coach at the Kansas City Skating Club. He also coached in Baltimore, Chicago and eventually in Detroit. His student, Doug Ramsay, finished fourth at the1961 U.S. Championships and was not invited to the World Championships. When bronze medalist Tim Brown dropped out due to heart trouble, Ramsay and Swallender were issued tickets aboard Sabena Flight 548 that crashed in Brussels enroute to the World Championships in Prague. ", {background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[2]=[src="Graphics/InductedBilly.jpg","William Kipp, originally from Allentown, Pa., beganskating as a child with an asthmatic condition. He was coached by Gus Lussi and passed his gold tests in both figures and dance. He moved to Paramount, CA, to coach after a serious injury to his leg. His most famous pupil was Peggy Fleming, but she was just a Novice Lady when he was killed on Sabena Flight 548 along with members of the entire 1961 World Figure Skating Team. Known as “Billy” to his friends and family, he was a strong voice advocating his opinion that ice dancing should be in the Olympics, a dream that was realized more than twenty years after his death. His students were Rhode Michelson and dancers Roger Campbell and Dona Lee Carrier.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[3]=[src="Graphics/InductedDanny.jpg","Danny Ryan Danny was born in Devon, Connecticut April 19th, 1929. His mother died when he was 7 years old. He was raised by his Grandmother(Granny Caroline Naylor), attended a Jesuit Prep School in Bridgeport,CT, roller skating competitively and became the runner-up at the National Senior Mens Championships. He turned to ice skating in the late 1940's and began ice dancing with his partner, Carol Ann Peters. They represented the Washington Figure Skating Club and after just two years of training, they qualified for the U.S. World Team, winning a Bronze Medal. In the midst of their training he was called into the Army and was stationed in Alaska. With some political help, he was able to transfer out and continue skating with Carol Ann while attending Catholic University in Washington. Danny was teaching at the Minto Skating Club in Ottawa, Canada where he met and married his wife, Rose Ann. They moved to Indianapolis in 1954, where they taught skating to National and World competitors. They would spend the summer months training their skaters in Lake Placid, NY. Danny died in the ill-fated plane crash of the U.S. Figure Skating team in 1961.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[4]=[src="Graphics/InductedEdi.jpg","Edi Scholdan Edi Scholdan started skating in his native Austria, before joining ice revues in Europe, and eventually, the United States. He served in the U.S. Army military police and in 1945 accepted the position of head coach at the world famous Broadmoor Figure Skating Club. Among many national and international skaters who arrived to train under Scholdan was Germanys Ina Bauer, who introduced the famous (Bauer) move to skating. Scholdan trained many champions including Mens Olympic gold medalists Hayes Alan and David Jenkins. For his sense of humor, and for often juggling on skates, he earned the nickname (the clown prince of Broadmoor). He was internationally recognized as a fine technical coach and innovative show producer. Scholdan was the first person to combine choreographed dancing with skating numbers and introduced the Colorado Springs Symphony to the arena by arranging a special show in concert with the skaters. He was killed in a plane crash near Brussels, Belgium on his way to the 1961 World Championships with the entire 18-member U.S. Figure Skating Team. ",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[5]=[src="Graphics/InductedMaribel.jpg","Maribel Vinson Owen An outstanding skater and coach, Owen was the first female sports writer for the New York Times. She coached both her daughters, Laurence and Maribel Y., to the titles she had won twenty-four years earlier in Ladies and Pairs. All three had competed in World and Olympic Championships. Combined, they garnered more than 20 championship titles. Her father, Thomas M. Vinson, won the Silver Medal in the 1893 American Championship. After graduating from Radcliffe College, Owen moved to England desiring to enter Europeans and Worlds with dual membership in the U.S. and British Associations. Her longtime coach was Willie Frick. After retiring from amateur competition, she toured for one season with an ice show named the “Gay Blades.” In 1940 the show became the “Ice Capades.” Owen was instrumental in revising competition rules in Dance and the establishment for standard tests. Most of her coaching career was spent in Boston with her husband, Guy Owen, whom she met and skated with in the touring ice show. She wrote three books of instruction in skating and was inducted into the U.S. Skaters Hall of Fame in 1976. Owen was one of the founders of the Professional Skaters Guild of America, later the Professional Skaters Associatoin. She and her two daughters were aboard the 1961 ill-fated plane crash in Brussels on their way to the World Championships.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[6]=[src="Graphics/InductedCarlo.jpg","Carlo Fassi Carlo Fassi was born in Milan, Italy and became well-known figure skater and international coach. As a competitor, Fassi was the Italian Mens champion from 1943 to 1954, won a bronze medal at the world championship in 1953, and clinched gold medals at the European championship in 1953 and 1954. He also competed in the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. After the end of his competitive career, Fassi took up coaching. One of his first students was a young German skater,Christa von Kuczkowski, who became his wife and mother to his three children, Riccardo, Monika, and Lorenzo. After the 1961 plane, Fassi moved with his family to the United States, based first in Denver, Colorado, then the Broadmoor Arena in Colorado Springs and finally, following a brief return to Italy, at the Ice Castle rink in Lake Arrowhead, California. His students included World and Olympic Champions Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, John Curry, Robin Cousins, and Jill Trenary. He also coached Scott Hamilton and Paul Wylie in the early stages of their careers. Skaters from all over the world came to train with Fassi. Besides being an excellent technical coach, Fassi had the reputation of being a master of political dealings in the figure skating world. Fassi died of a heart attack at the 1997 World Figure Skating Championships, which he was attending as the coach of U.S. skater, Nicole Bobek.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[7]=[src="Graphics/InductedFrank.jpg","Frank Carroll Frank Carroll hails from the Boston area, graduated from Holy Cross University and was coached by world famous coach, Maribel Vinson-Owen having been thrust into coaching following her death. His students and achievements are legendary. He has coached 10 World Champions (six Senior and four Junior) and is one of only three coaches ever to have both Ladies and Mens Senior Champions in the same year and is one of the few coaches to have coached a World Champion both with figures (Fratianne) and without (Kwan). His students include Linda Fratianne, Christopher Bowman, Michelle Kwan, Tiffany Chin, Timothy Goebel, Jennifer Kirk and Evan Lysacek. He is also known as a coach’s coach having presented innumerable times at PSA and U.S. Figure Skating functions. He was the Eastern Novice, Junior and Senior Mens Champion and was a medal winner in three National Championships. Following his amateur career, he performed as a star in Ice Follies for 4 ½ years. He was the 1997 Olympic Coach of the year, three-time PSA Coach of the Year and was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1996. He is PSA Master rated in Figures and Free Skating and is the head coach for the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California, He is one of the most honored and respected coaches alive today",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[8]=[src="Graphics/InductedRon.jpg","Ron (Luddy) Ludington Ludington has coached skaters in ten consecutive Olympics and 38 World Championships. He holds several skating titles himself including U.S. Pair Champion (1956-60); U.S. Silver Dance Champion (1958); World Bronze Medalist (1959); Olympic Bronze Medalist (1960) and World Invitational Dance Champion (1965). In 1987, he became the director of the Ice Skating Science Development Center at the University of Delaware in Newark, NJ and has helped it grow from an instructional and recreational facility for students and the community to an internationally recognized center of excellence-training some of the world's champion figure and ice dance skaters. In 1990, Ludington was named Coach of the Year by the Professional Skaters Guild of America, and was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1993. He also earned the Professional Skaters Association (PSA) Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. Ludington is master-rated by the PSA in the categories of Figures and Freestyle, Dance/Free Dance and Pairs.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[9]=[src="Graphics/InductedGus.jpg","Gustave (Gus) Lussi Known as one of the greatest coaches of all time, Gus Lussi coached many of the world’s greatest skating champions including Dick Button, Donald Jackson, Ronald Robertson, Ron Ludington and Dorothy Hamill (during her novice years). Many of his students also become successful coaches. Though not a former competitive skater, Lussi was a ski jumper who applied the theories of that sport to figure skating. He knew the value of spins and felt the back spin was the key in developing the correct stance for jumps. His skaters became known for their superb spinning technique. With Dick Button, he developed the flying camel and the back blur spin and he also worked with Ronnie Robertson, who to this day is acknowledged as the world’s fastest spinner. Most of his coaching career was spent in Lake Placid, NY, where the Lussi Rink was named in his memory. His coaching was all about making champions and it was a brilliant time in skating history. He died in 1993.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[10]=[src="Graphics/InductedHoward.jpg","Howard Nicholson Originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, where he first learned to skate as a speed skater and a hockey player, Nicholson began figure skating in 1910 and later began his professional career at the Hippodrome in New York City. In 1920 he traveled to Europe and taught figure skating in England and Switzerland until just before World War II. During this time he competed in professional competitions and participated in exhibitions and shows. In 1931 he acquired a student by the name of Sonja Henie and guided and coached her throughout the remainder of her career in which she won three Olympic, ten World and six European Championships. Although he also had great skill as a free skating instructor, he is probably best known as the master of compulsory figures and wrote a book in which he set forth his theories and principles and how each figure should be performed. He returned to the United States and had a distinguished coaching career in New York City, Detroit and finally in Lake Placid. Among his many fine pupils were Mary Rose Thacker, Sonya Klopfer, Carlo Fassi, Toller Cranston and Yvonne Sherman Tutt. Another student of his became the youngest USFSA Gold Medalist in the United States at the age of nine, Priscilla Hill Wampler, coach of Johnny Weir.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[11]=[src="Graphics/InductedMontgomery.jpg","Montgomery (Bud) Wilson Probably the finest skater ever to represent North America in international competition up until World War II, Bud Wilson first entered the Canadian Championships in 1924 at the age of 13 and placed second. He was the Canadian Champion nine times, North American Champion six times, Olympic Bronze medalist and World Silver Medalist in 1932. He was also a very fine pair skater with his sister Constance and together they were Canadian Champions five times and North American Champions three times. He was member of the 1939 North American Fours Champions and finished second in the British Championships in 1928 which was open to citizens of the British Commonwealth at that time. Turning professional in 1939 he began his teaching career in St. Paul, Minnesota. Following his service in the army artillery during World War II where he earned the rank of Major and earned the Bronze Star, he came to the Skating Club Of Boston as the club’s senior professional and director of it’s annual carnival,The Ice Chips. He continued to develop many fine skaters including U.S. Pair Champion, World and Olympic competitor Dudley Richards,U.S. Mens Champion and World competitor Bradley Lord, U.S. Silver medalist and World Team member Gregory Kelley and the four time U.S. Silver Medalist and twice bronze medalist, two time Olympic Team member and five time World Team member Tina Noyes.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[12]=[src="Graphics/InductedPierreh.jpg","Pierre Brunet Seven-time Mens Champion of France and two-time Olympic competitor in 1924 and 1928, Pierre Brunet is best remembered for being the eleven-time Pair Champion of France, seven-time World Pair Champion, Olympic Silver Medalist and two-time Olympic Pair Champion with his beloved partner and later, his wife, Andree Joly. Together they came to North America just before World War II, first to Toronto and subsequently to the Skating Club of New York where they established a long and distinguished career as skating instructors. Brunet’s most outstanding pupil was Carol Heiss and her sister Nancy. He also taught Gordie McKellen, Alain Giletti and Patrick Pera. An engineer by profession, he applied those principles to his methods of training.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[13]=[src="Graphics/InductedSheldon.jpg","Sheldon Galbraith Born in Sturgeon Creek, Manitoba and while still an infant, he moved with his family to Los Angeles for a short time before finally settling in Tacoma, Washington. His father had been a talented hockey player and all the children in the family were encouraged to learn how to skate. After the depression the family moved to San Francisco. In 1940 he finished in 3rd place in Junior Men. It was in the Ice Follies that he met Jeanne Schulte, a former Junior Pair Champion who he eventually married. His next venture was to turn to coaching and during his career he coached three Olympic Champions, Barbara Ann Scott Francis Dafoe and Norris Bowden and Barbara Wagner and Bob Paul. He also coached the 1962 World Mens Champion Don Jackson.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[14]=[src="Graphics/InductedArnold.jpg","Arnold Gerschwiler World-renowned figure skating coach, Gerschwiler was born in Arbon, Switzerland and at the encouragment of his half-brother Jacques moved to London. He was head coach at the Richmond Ice Rink from 1938 and was made director in 1964 running the instuition with Swiss precision, and taught until his retirement when the rink closed in 1992, interrupted only when the Swiss army called him up for a year in 1939. He was awarded the OBE in 1997. He headed a team of up to 28 full-time teachers training skaters from all over the world, discovering 42 Champions, many from London. He taught many champions including Aja Zanova, Sjoukje Dijkstra, John Curry and the British champions Michael Booker and Patricia Dodd. He also taught many celebrities including Princess Anne, James Mason, Patricia Roc and Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding. The Richmond International Trophy, which ran from 1949 to 1980, was largely Gerschwiler’s inspiration as were the children’s skating classes, started in 1949. He was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1985 and died in 2003.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[15]=[src="Graphics/InductedFritz.jpg","Fritz Dietl Fritz Dietl, an international figure-skating star, shaped the careers of many professional skaters. Born in Vienna, Austria, he held a master's degree in engineering and trained to become a professional tennis player, but his love was ice skating. He began skating at the age of 12 on the frozen Danube River in his hometown. In the 1930s, Dietl had his own European ice skating show where he was featured as a stilt skater. He was also an original member of the Ice Capades. He came to the United States in 1940 and began skating with the Olympic champion, Sonja Henie. Together they toured the nation. In 1958, he opened the Fritz Dietl Ice Skating Rink, which is still in operation today in Westwood, NJ. Dietl coached Scott Allen, who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1964 at the age of 14. He was a charter member of the Ice Skating Institute of America and was named to the association's Hall of Fame. He also was a founding member of the International Professional Skating Union and a board member of the Professional Skaters Association who recognized him with the Honorary Member and Lifetime Achievement Award. The PSA Fritz Dietl Ice Arena Award of Excellence was also named after him. Although retired, Mr. Dietl continued to be active in figure skating until his last month. He was 91 when he died of complications of heart trauma.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[36]=[src="Graphics/InductedJacques-.jpg","Jacques Gerschwiler From the mid-1930s, Swiss born coaches Jacques and his half-brother Arnold developed some of Britain's most gifted skaters. Among Jacques students were pre-war British Champion Cecilia Colledge; she won a silver medal in the 1936 Olympics and was World Champion next year; Jeannette Altwegg, the 1952 Olympic Champion; and Sally Stapleford, who became an ISU referee and was the whistleblower of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating judges’ scandal. Jacques, originally Jacob, was born in 1898 and first studied to be an athletics coach in Berlin. While there he became acquainted with ice skating in the international style and evolved his own theory of skating technique. After a visit to London in 1929 he settled in Britain, teaching at Queen's Ice Club, Bayswater. In 1936, Jacques along with fellow coaches, Howard Nicholson, Gladys Hogg and Eric Van De Weyden formed the first coaches organization in the world, The British Ice Teachers Association.Later, Gerschwiler taught at Empress Hall, Earls Court, and then at Streatham until the 1960s. He was credited for inventing the camel spin first performed by Cecilia Colledge. He was later elected to the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. Born in Arbon, Switzerland, he was the uncle of Hans Gerschwiler. He died in Geneva in 2000 at the age of 101.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[16]=[src="Graphics/InductedNicks.jpg","John Nicks John Allen Wisden Nicks, a member of the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame (class of 1993), is among the renowned coaches and skaters in the sport. Nicks was a successful British skater, winning the Junior Mens Championship in 1947 and Britian’s only World Pairs Championship in 1953 with his sister Jenny. Nicks was multi-talented in sports as a youth, first starring as a track athlete. But it was skating where Nicks would make his mark on the world of sports. Nicks’ athletic career was detoured while he served for his country’s National Service from 1948-50 as a private in the Royal Sussex and later the Royal Middlesex regiments. He served in Hong Kong. Nicks settled in Los Angeles in 1961 and has coached many top U.S. pairs teams including Jo Jo Starbuck and Ken Shelley, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner and Jenny Meno and Todd Sand. He also coached Peggy Fleming, Tiffany Chin and Christopher Bowman. It was Nicks who saw a talented young girl and developed Sasha Cohen into one of the world's most prominent skaters. Nicks was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame (2000) and appeared as a judge on the 2006 FOX television program Skating with Celebrities",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[17]=[src="Graphics/InductedNorma.jpg","Norma Sahlin Norma was born in Ionia, Michigan where everyone skated. She began taking lessons in Sault St. Marie with coach, Pierre Brunet. She later moved to Chicago where she trained with Bill Swallender. Norma coached skaters at seven world championships and two Olympic Games. She guided Barbara Brown and Doug Berndt to the 1972 Sapporo Games and was responsible for Charlie Tickner’s third place finish at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. Charlie was also the 1978 World Champion. During Norma’s career, she coached champions from Regionals to Olympics in Mens, Ladies and Pairs. She was married to Wally Sahlin, past PSA President. Norma held Master Ratings in Figures, Freestyle, and Pairs and attained the Level IX Ranking. She was also an Honorary Member of the PSA and was the recipient of the Betty Berens Award in 2003. Norma was selected Sportswoman of Colorado Superior Achievement in 1978 and inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2004.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[18]=[src="Graphics/InductedPeter&Sonya.jpg","Peter and Sonya Dunfield Peter was born and educated in Toronto, Canada and represented Canada on two World Teams and two North American Teams. He has coached at six Olympic Games and many World Championships. His students have received Olympic Medals in Ladies, Mens and Pairs and he has coached Olympic and World competitors from many different countries. Some of his most notable skaters include Ronald and Vivian Joseph, Scotty Allen, Tina Noyes, Allen Schramm, Mark and Melissa Militano, Patrick Pera, Elizabeth Manley, Yuka Sato and Robin Wagner. Peter is a Past PSA President and an Honorary Member. He played an instrumental part in the launching of the PSA’s Annual Conference and Ratings System. Some of his awards includeinduction into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame and 1994 PSA Coach of the Year. Peter is Master Rated in Figures and Freestyle. Sonya Klopfer Dunfield was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1951, she became the U.S. National and North American Ladies Champion. She competed at the World Championships three times - her highest placing was second, and she placed fourth at the Olympic Games. As a coach, Sonya has brought skaters to three Olympic Games and eight World Championships. Some of her skaters include Dorothy Hamill, Elizabeth Manley and Tina Noyes. Sonya is Master Rated in Figures, Free Skating and Dance and holds a Senior Rating in Group. She is also an Honorary Member of the PSA. Peter and Sonya have been married for over 40 years.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[19]=[src="Graphics/InductedMichael.jpg","Michael Kirby was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. He began figure skating as therapy for heart problems caused by rheumatic fever. Michael was the 1941 Junior Champion of Canada and in 1942 won the Senior Men’s Championship. Beginning in 1943 Michael began his career with Ice Follies. In 1944, Michael was married to Ice Follies star and Canadian Champion, Norah McCarthy. Their marriage lasted for fifty-seven years and they had eight children! During his life, Michael played the role of entertainer, business leader, author, developer and movie star. In 1944, he signed with MGM and made several movies including one as the leading man opposite Sonja Henie. In the 1950’s he developed the Michael Kirby Ice Skating Schools, the first successful chain of ice skating rinks in Chicago and Toronto specializing in figure skating for fun and health. In an effort to make skating more popular he co-founded the Ice Skating Institute of America, ISIA, now the ISI. Former students of Michael’s were Ronnie Robertson, Richard Dwyer and Dick Button.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[20]=[src="Graphics/InductedCliff.jpg","Cliff Thaell Cliff, a native of Manchester, England, first came to the United States in 1946. He brought his wife, Edwina Blades, a featured Ice Capades star, with him. Cliff coached at the Olympic Arena in Lake Placid and rose to become one of America’s top skating professionals. He was instrumental in establishing Lake Placid as a figure skating mecca. During his tenure, which spanned from 1946 to 1983, Cliff coached more than one hundred students to gold medal status. His most noted students were Hayes and David Jenkins, whom he coached to World Championship and Olympic Gold status. He ranked as one of the foremost experts of figures. Cliff and his wife, Edwina, produced popular Saturday night skating shows at the 1932 arena, a tradition that continues today. He also produced the first Professional Skating Championships held in Lake Placid in 1950. Cliff was responsible for the establishment of many skating studios across the eastern seaboard and he coached at the world famous Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society in Ardmore. Cliff made many civic and cultural contributions to the skating world and served as President of the Professional Skaters Guild of America. In 1991, he was inducted into the prestigious Lake Placid Hall of Fame. ",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[21]=[src="Graphics/InductedDon.jpg","Don Laws Don Laws, a former U.S. Junior Mens Champion, U.S. Junior Dance Champion and a former World Team member, was the coach of 1984 Olympic gold medalist, Scott Hamilton, and three-time U.S. champion. Michael Weiss. He has over 52 years of coaching experience. He was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame both as a skater and a coach in 2001. He also is a Past President of the Professional Skaters Association and a Lifetime Achievement Honorary Member of that association. Currently he serves on the International Skating Union's Singles and Pairs Committee.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[22]=[src="Graphics/InductedEvy&Mary.jpg","Evy & Mary Scotvold According to Wikkipedia, Mary Batdorf Scotvold is an American figure skating coach, best known for her work with Olympic medalists Paul Wylie and Nancy Kerrigan, who she co coached with her husband, Evy Scotvold. Mary won the novice ladies title at the 1959 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Evy skated with Ice Follies. In the mid-1970's, she began coaching at the Wagon Wheel rink in Rockton, Illinois, where her pupils included a young Scott Hamilton. It was there that she teamed up with Evy Scotvold. They coached in Janesville, Wisconsin for a time before relocating to the Boston area in 1986. They are now semi-retired and coaching part-time in Jacksonville, Florida. In addition to Wylie and Kerrigan, there were many great skaters before; Gordy McKellen, Terry Kubicka, Sandy Lenz, David Santee, Jimmie Santee, to name a few. The Scotvold’s also coached 2001 World Junior champion Jennifer Kirk, Evy and Mary were inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1998. The Scotvold’s hold a Level 8 ranking and Mary an Emeritus Masters certificate in Figures and Free.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[23]=[src="Graphics/InductedLynn.jpg","Lynn Benson On May 28, 2003, The U.S. Figure Skating Association and the Professional Skaters Association named Lynn Benson of Lexington, MA, as 2003’s Coach of The Year at their International Conference, held in Stamford, CT. The prestigious Coach of the Year award is given to a single coach each year that has “made a significant impact on his or her athletes’ performance and has distinguished themselves through years of successful teaching, culminating in a special career achievement during the past year.” This was the first time that a synchronized coach had received this prestigious award. Lynn's accomplishments as head coach of the Haydenettes as well as her commitment to the discipline of synchronized team skating speaks to her passion for the sport and illustrates the impact she has made as a coach.” Benson, who is an internationally recognized coach and choreographer, founded the Haydenettes in 1979 and has coached the team to thirteen U.S. National Championships. Between the two Haydenettes teams, Benson has logged an impressive twenty-eight U.S. National titles. Benson has coached her U.S. team to top-five finishes in Synchronized World Championship in 2002 and 2003. In 1995, 2000 and 2001 she received the PSA Edy Award for Synchronized Coach of the Year. Benson holds a Master Rating in Synchronized skating from the PSA. She is a member of the PSA Synchronized Skating Committee. She is a vice president and chairman of the committee professional standards. Benson also serves on the ISU’s Synchronized Skating Coaches Development Committee.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[24]=[src="Graphics/InductedLew.jpg","Lew Elkin Lew Elkin never coached on the Gran Prix circuit or at the Junior National Championship. His name never appeared in the PSA Honor Role. Lew Elkin was from a different time and place. Of course he produced great skaters. He had his share of top skaters, but Lew Elkin far exceeded the norm in his day as a true professional skating coach. He had a profound effect on the profession of Coaching Figure Skating for decades. If you ask nearly any group of judges or coaches about Lew, at least one of them will proudly say they were one of his students. Mr. Elkin was a role model, an innovator and a gentleman. He set a standard for coaching that we follow today. Many young aspiring new coaches of his day turned to Mr. Elkin for his guidance as a mentor. Today they are in leadership roles thanks to his guidance and encouragement. His influence as a leader in the coaching profession can be seen in ice arenas across America.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[25]=[src="Graphics/InductedPieter.jpg","",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[26]=[src="Graphics/InductedKathy.jpg","Kathy grew up and skated in Great Falls, Montana. In 1962, she began coaching and directing the figure skating program at the Lakewood Winter Club in Tacoma Washington which became a major summer training center due to Kathy’s efforts. Many of her skaters during this period competed nationally and internationally. In 1990, Kathy Casey became the Director of Skating for the world renowned Broadmoor Skating Club in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She directed that skating program until 2000. Kathy Casey coached United States National Figure Skating Champion, Scott Davis and World Junior Champion, Jill Sawyer. World Figure Skating Champion and Olympic Silver Medalist, Rosalynn Sumners, also took lessons from Kathy Casey. Other skaters who have worked with Kathy include Scott Williams, Nicole Bobek, Scott Hamilton, Lily Lee, Shelby Lyons, Steven Rice, Sydne Vogel, and Damon Allen. While coaching full time, Kathy served as the President of the Professional Skaters Association (PSA) for two three year terms. In addition to serving as the President of the Professional Skaters Association, she has served on the Board of Directors of U.S. Figure Skating and on the U.S. Olympic Coaches Committee. In 2005, she was awarded the (United States Olympic Committee Sports Science Coach of the Year award) for the work she has done on the biomechanical studies of figure skating jumps. In 2006, took on another role as the Director of Athlete Performance Enhancement and Tracking for US Figure Skating. The main focus of this position is to monitors and track athletes and mentor coaches, assuring that the US skaters are always prepared for competition. Sources:figureskating.about.com/od/topskatingcoaches/p/casey.htm, www.usfigureskating.org",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[27]=[src="Graphics/InductedWalter&Irene.jpg","Walter and Irene Muehlbronner, Walter was born in Stuttgart, Germany and raised in Queens, N.Y. As a youth, he was an amateur cyclist, winning the 100 mile Long Island Championship. He served three years in the European Theater of War during World War II. Upon discharge from the service, Mr. Muehlbronner returned to New York and ice skating. He partnered with Brooklyn born Irene Maguire and they went on to become Silver Medalists in Ice Dancing and Pairs at the 1949 and 1950 U.S. National Championships. In 1950, the pair represented the United States at the World Championships in London. The same year they joined the PSGA, the precursor of the Professional Skaters Association. In 1951, Walter and Irene were married. For seven years the Muehlbronner’s starred with the Ice Follies as the smooth dance team “Walter and Irene.” In 1958, they settled in the Philadelphia area, with Mr. Muehlbronner teaching at, and later managing, the Wissahickon Skating Club in Chestnut Hill and Irene at the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society. Irene, who later joined Walter at the Wissahickon Skating Club, was a Master rated coach in the disciplines of Dance, Free Dance, and Group instruction. She was granted Emeritus status in 2001. Walter was Master Rated in Figures and Freestyle, Dance, Group, Program Director, and Senior rated in Pairs.From 1972-1974, Mr. Muehlbronner was president of the Professional Skaters Association and in 1981 were awarded Honorary Lifetime memberships. Walter was the PSA’s first Ratings Chair and Irene, also an innovator, initiated the original PSGA Group Hospital Plan. Upon retirement in 1990, he pursued his other interests and hobbies, which included bowling, golf, water-skiing, and sculpting. Walter passed away in November of 2005. Shortly thereafter, the Professional Skaters Foundation, which was founded to expand the educational opportunities of PSA members through a 501(c)(3) non-profit, charitable foundation, renamed their scholarship program after Walter and Irene.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[28]=[src="Graphics/InductedTom.jpg","Tom McGinnis coached at The Skating Club of Boston beginning in 1961. Known among students for his ability to creatively bring out the best in every skater he works with, McGinnis has worked in all of the skating disciplines including figures, pairs, dance, free skating and choreography. He has coached his students to National and World team assignments, and he has also worked with International skaters. He has been a US International and World Team coach and US Olympic Team alternate coach. For decades, he directed and choreographed the Skating Club of Boston’s annual ice show, “Ice Chips.” McGinnis’ contribution to the sport and profession of figure skating is vast. He began skating in New York at the age of 10, and passed gold tests in singles, pairs and ice dancing. He augmented his skating training with dance and acrobatics, and was known for his flexibility. He was in demand as a young performer in New York, in ice shows at the Roxy Theatre and dancing on the Martha Raye and Ed Sullivan shows, as well as Your Hit Parade. His stage credits include appearances with the New York City Opera Company, Pajama Game and even swimming with the Aqua Club. Following his TV and stage appearances, McGinnis starred with Holiday On Ice, touring the US, South and Central America and the Caribbean. After touring with Holiday On Ice, McGinnis moved to Philadelphia, where he found work as a skating instructor and choreographer, before his move to Boston. He returned to touring when the Ice Capades hired him to coach their star performers in 1979, including Dorothy Hamill, Peggy Fleming, Scott Hamilton, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner. McGinnis brought his skills to the professional community as well. He was one of the coaches who helped create the Moves In the Field protocol, the skills and related tests which judge skaters’ edge quality, power, extension and quickness. He organized three major conferences for the PSA, including the first combining US and Canadian coaches. He has judged professional championships and founded an international skating publication. He holds master ratings in eight disciplines by the PSA, and was awarded their “Lifetime Achievement” award. Asked by a student if McGinnis will retire from coaching, having earned the Hall of Fame distinction, he responds with a sly grin. “Why would I? This means I’m getting better. I can always keep improving.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[29]=[src="Graphics/InductedMabel.jpg","Mabel Fairbanks 1916-2001. Class of 2009 She was born in New York City. As a young girl in the 1930s, Fairbanks discovered her lifetime passion watching a Sonia Henie movie. She then saw a pair of black skates in a pawnshop window and talked the guy down to $1.50. They were two sizes too big, but that didn't stop Fairbanks. She stuffed them with cotton, found her balance on blades by going up and down the stairs in her building, and took to the nearby frozen lake. It wasn't long before Fairbanks was sailing across the ice. In the 1940s, Fairbanks came to Los Angeles only to find it blind to her talent but not to her color. They had a sign at the Pasadena Winter Gardens that read Colored Trade Not Solicited,she remembers. But it was a public place, so my uncle had newspaper articles written about it and passed them out everywhere until they finally let me in.Fairbanks opened the door for other young Blacks to compete in skating, but her pro years had passed, so she became a teacher and coach in Culver City and the Hollywood Polar Palace. Famed Olympic medalist Scott Hamilton learned from Fairbanks when he was just a young beginner, and she gave free lessons to those too poor to pay. While at the Polar Palace, her students included many celebrities and their children, like Natalie Cole, Ricky Nelson, Danny Kaye, and Jimmy Durante. Also her students were some of the sport's luminaries such as Kristi Yamaguchi, Tiffany Chin, Rudy Galindo, and a young Scott Hamilton. It was Fairbanks who paired the Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner while watching them skate. She coached the first African American to win a national title, Atoy Wilson, 1966, and the first African Americans to win the national pairs title, Richard Ewell and Michelle McCladdie, 1972. Fairbanks' ability to teach has helped cultivate some of the finest skaters of the century. She taught and coached on the ice until she was 79 years old and was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis, a disease that weakens the muscles. Mabel Fairbanks died at 85 in September 2001 in Los Angeles.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[30]=[src="Graphics/InductedSlavka.jpg","Slavka Kohout is best known for coaching 5-time U.S. Champion Janet Lynn throughout her entire competitive career. As a skater, Kohout was twice the Midwestern sectional senior ladies champion, and she won the bronze medal in the 1950 U.S. junior ladies championships. After turning professional, she was manager and head coach at the Wagon Wheel Ice Palace in Rockton, Illinois for 17 years. During that period, the Wagon Wheel rink -- part of a larger resort complex -- was one of the top figure skating training centers in the United States. Kohout coached not only Lynn but also 3-time U.S. champion Gordon McKellen, several other international competitors, and other skaters who have gone on to become prominent coaches or skating judges. She was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2002. Miss Kohout left Wagon Wheel when she married Dick Button in 1975. They have since divorced and is now coach in the New York City area.www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Slavka_Kohout ",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[31]=[src="Graphics/InductedSkippy.jpg","Skippy Baxter won two medals at the 1940 United States Figure Skating Championships. He won a bronze medal in men's singles and a silver medal in pairs. He was also an Ice Capades star. He is credited with being the first man to be able to do back flips on ice skates and was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2003. Lloyd (Skippy) Baxter began skating in November 1929 in Oakland, CA. He began coaching in 1956. Skippy's professional career has spanned more than 64 years and has included 5,532 consecutive performances with the Rockefeller Center Theatre and The Hollywood Ice Revue with Sonia Henie. He qualified for the 1940 Olympic team, but didn't get to go due to World War 2. Skippy coached at Redwood Empire Ice Arena, Snoopy's Home Ice for over 40 years and choreographed a segment for the 1969 animated film A Boy Named Charlie Brown, in which Snoopy skates. At age 84, he was still teaching private and group lessons and the occasional hockey lesson, he is listed as the oldest active skating instructor in the United States. Skippy was promoted by the Redwood Empire Ice Arena to Head Coach Emeritus in December 2009 and is still active around the Arena. ",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[35]=[src="Graphics/InductedBarbra.jpg","Barbara Roles was a champion skater at the U.S. Novice, Junior and Senior Ladies levels. She won an Olympic and World Bronze medal in 1960. She retired following the 1960 Olympics and had a child. But in 1961, following the devastating plane crash that killed the entire U.S. Figure Skating team, Roles came out of retirement at the request of the U.S. Figure Skating Association and won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1962. She became the first skater to win gold at novice, junior and senior nationals. They contacted my mother,'' Roles said. They had only junior skaters available and needed someone to go to the World Championships to help qualify the team for the following year. With just juniors, they probably wouldn't have been able to qualify. Roles had given up skating at that point, but she said she had just enough time to get back into shape for the competition. It wasn't easy, I will confess that,'' Roles said. But I was motivated by the fact I was helping our country. I'm very proud that I did that. Roles won the gold medal at the USFSA Championships in 1962, then finished third at the Worlds that year. Roles said she gave no consideration to saying 'no'' to the USFSA request, but she did retire again immediately after the competition. As a coach, Roles worked with Lisa-Marie Allen, Wendy Burge, Nicole Bobek, Brian Pockar, Vikki DeVries and Geoffry Varner. She also has served as a TV sports consultant for ABC, ESPN and CBS. She is the consummate coach,'' Carole Shulman said of Roles. She seems to add value to every skater she touches. She is an inspiration and a role model. Roles, 69, said the selection to the Hall of Fame came as a surprise.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[32]=[src="Graphics/InductedWally.jpg","Sahlin was the 1941 U.S. Novice champion and the 1942 U.S. junior champion. His skating career was interrupted by World War II, in which Sahlin served in the army in the south pacific. Sahlin's wife, Norma, was inducted in the PSA Hall of Fame in 2005. Wally and Norma skated with the Ice Follies for three years. They made Colorado Springs their home and Wally took over the figure skating program at the University of Denver. He coached at the Alpine and South Suburban Ice Arenas. Together they coached many national competitors including 1978 World Champion Charlie Tickner, Jill Trenary, Doug Berndt and Barbara Brown. His contributions were monumental,said Shulman, who joined Sahlin in the HOF this year. The PSGA was always looked down upon, and always had to come through the side door (at USFSA meetings). He tried to secure information from the USFSA to get it out to the coaches. Wally was finally able to crack that relationship. He was a very determined person. He was able to progress the relationship between the USFSA and the PSGA.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[33]=[src="Graphics/InductedDavid.jpg","David Shulman – Past President of the PSA and current General Legal Counsel, David is a Board Certified Trial Advocate in both civil trial and family law. He is admitted to practice in Minnesota and Colorado as well as the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Shulman, formerly Senior Professional with the Rochester Figure Skating Club for more than twenty-five years and currently teaching as a guest coach at the Broadmoor World Arena, is Master rated in Figures, Free Skating and Pairs, is a PSA rating examiner and holds an Airline Transport Pilot rating. He is also a certificated multi-engine flight instructor and instrument flight instructor and married to Carole Shulman, former Executive Director of the PSA.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[34]=[src="Graphics/InductedCarole.jpg","Carole Shulman served as executive director for the PSA beginning in the mid-1980s until her retirement in 2006.Shulman continued much of Sahlin's work in maintaining and building a relationship with the USFSA. Included in the accomplishments during his terms (1974-77) was the appointment of PSGA coached to every USFSA committee. In April of 1976, Shulman attended the World Professional Championships in Jaca, Spain. It was the first time the PSGA was officially represented at the World Professional competition. Also that year, Shulman attended the Presidents Commission on Olympic Sports. It was comprised of Senators who acted as commissioners to come up with a comprehensive report of the international involvement of the U.S. through its athletic programs in Olympic competition.",{background:"#252525", color:"#ffffff", font:"11px Arial", width:"510px"}] tooltips[36]=[src="Graphics/InductedWalter.jpg","As a competitor, he competed in singles, pairs, and dance. Obviously, he was most well known for dance having won 3 US Gold Dance Championships, 2 North American Gold Dance Championships, and being named an auxiliary member of the 1948 Olympic Team (with Lois Waring). The team had been invited to demonstrate Dance which at that time was not yet an Olympic event. He also won the US Silver Dance Championship (with Patsy Jones), US Junior Pair Championship (with Lois Waring) and a US Silver Medal for Junior Men and a US Silver Novice Men. Red began teaching in 1949 in the old Olympic Arena at Lake Placid. He had the fortune during those early years of teaching along side Gus Lussi, Howard Nicholson, Cliff Thaell, and Bill Swallender. He credits these professionals as helping to mold his own teaching career. As a coach, Red never taught a lesson without wearing a tie. He had pupils who obtained USFSA Gold Medals in Figures, Free Style, and Dance. He had pupils who were Regional, Sectional, and National medal winners and champions and a couple who were Bronze and Silver Medalists at the World Figure Skating Championships. Many of his former pupils are now prominent teaching professionals and/or USFSA judges. One of his pupils once told him that he was such a great teacher that he could teach a pig to skate. Some of his more well know pupils were David Schulman*, Julie Graham Eavzan, Maude Hammer White, Gene Heffron, Andree Anderson Oseid and Donald Jacoby, Evelyn Mueller Kramer, Carol Ann Peters and Daniel C. Ryan. He also taught Ron Ludington for a few years at Lake Placid before Ludington turned pro. Red was just as happy teaching Special Olympic skaters and beginners as he was with teaching competitors. He got as much satisfaction from teaching a child or adult with little or no talent how to do a three-turn as he did with teaching a competitor a double jump. He never felt that teaching skating was a job, but he saw it as a privilege. In the 60s he took the position of manager of the Michigan State University ice arena, but after a few years, he missed teaching so much that he left management for a full time teaching position. In 2002, Red was diagnosed with rectal cancer. During 6 weeks of radiation and 24-hour-per-day chemo (he wore a chemo pack), he continued to teach (on the ice). After 7 major surgeries during the next 18 months, he also continued to teach. It was only after a hip replacement that wife finally talked him into retirement although he continued to help (gratis) a group of motivated adults from the boards. He finally retired in 2006 after 55 years of teaching. *One summer Dave Schulman needed skates so he bought a pair of Red’s used skates — blue suede ones. 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