Article: THE SKATING CLUB: FIRST, AND LASTING IT STILL IS HELPING TO SHAPE THE SPORT

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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