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Article: THE SKATING CLUB: FIRST, AND LASTING IT STILL IS HELPING TO SHAPE THE SPORT
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright 2001 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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It's known simply as The Skating Club. Not the Skating Club of
Boston, its official title. Just The Skating Club. It's what folks
around here call something, like The Country Club, when it was the
first of its kind in the city, even if others came along later.
There may have been another skating club across The Rivah, but
Cambridge was another solar system. When The Skating Club was founded
in 1912, there was no other in Boston. And for the next half century,
it often seemed as if there were no other in the country.
"The history of skating and skaters came out of The Skating Club,"
says Tina Noyes, who emerged from the drafty ice house by the Charles
to make the 1964 and 1968 Olympic teams.
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