This issue of BOUNCE is bursting with fun photos, events and interesting facts!
Incredibly, my father George Nissen, managed to cover it all, and appeared to"be everywhere at once!"
Incredibly, my father George Nissen, managed to cover it all, and appeared to"be everywhere at once!"
The big news was the opening of Bob Bollinger's new outdoor trampoline school in Sycamore, Illinois. Quite a few notables from the world of trampolines were on hand to help out as well.
Then, before my father took off for the big toy fair in Los Angeles he made a special stop in Soccorro, New Mexico to meet up with Bob Hazlett (recent University of Iowa graduate and collegiate tumbling & trampoline champion).
A quick family note here: Marie Jensen celebrated her 107th birthday in Dysart, Iowa. Marie was my father's grandmother who as a child traveled to Iowa in a covered wagon. Being seven years old at the time, I still have vivid memories of attending several of her big family reunion birthday parties that were held at her Dysart home.
George Szypula, men's gymnastics coach at Michigan State held a trampoline clinic in Battlecreek, Michigan with trampoline champions Ed Cole and Don Carney assisting!
We also get to meet Gary Robertson, who stayed on at Nissen's for many, many years!
On page 3, we have the opportunity to see a number of folks not usually found on this side of the camera lens. I'll share a little background on each.
Irving "Speed" Wallace - - a free-lance writer for a number of professional journals. He never ran out of material when George Nissen was his topic!
Jacky Brown - - who years earlier with Xave Leonard and my father, performed together as the "Three Leonardos;" an acro-hand-balancing act.
Finally, bottom left is a rare photo of three special men standing next to my father:
Ed Cole - University of Michigan trampoline champion.
Dick Kimball who one year earlier won the NCAA springboard diving championship and now coached diving at the University of Michigan.
Nard Cazell of Amarillo, Texas. Owner of one of the first trampoline schools and coach to numerous collegiate and national trampoline champions.
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Lest we think Europe and the U.K. weren't also feeling the "bounce," on page 4, we have Ted Blake teaching a special teacher's clinic in Essex, England. Plus, professional trampoline performer Eddie Murillo catching the "perfect shot" in Milan, Italy.
Do these newsletters spark a memory for you?
If so, please share your own stories and comments below.
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