Swimming for Life

Memories

by Mike Kelber, Salem Kroc Masters Aqua Master Contributor Dave Radcliff came to Ontario, California in 1963 as a history teacher at Chaffey High School. His Olympic credentials more than qualified him to coach the swim team and start a new water polo team. Prior to Coach Radcliff, the swim team coaching […]

Off The Block: Plaque Dedicated to David Radcliff

January 31, 2023 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Memories / Open Water / Special by Aqua Master Editor

August 11, 1950 – June 4, 2022 Suzanne was a tireless USMS committee leader, swimmer, and coach who was dedicated to Masters Swimming. Skip Thompson fondly remembers how he met Suzanne Rague. Their 30-plus-year friendship started through a mutual friend who attended Stanford University. “I told him (my friend from […]

Suzanne Rague, We Miss You

July 23, 2022 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Memories / Obituary by Aqua Master Editor

Ralph Mohr — Led by Earl Walter, as OMS Chairman, and Mike Popovich, as Meet Director, Oregon Masters swimming was put on the map as a power in USMS in the pool and in national committees. As someone who swam in the meet and who has watched Oregon’s influence in USMS boards and […]

Swim Bits – 1982 Nationals

June 13, 2022 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Memories / Swim Bits by Ralph Mohr

Ralph Mohr — We thought it might be of interest for current OMS swimmers to see at least one meet result from the first ten years of Oregon Masters swimming. One pool that most in the Portland area probably have never swum in is Mt. Park in Lake Oswego, a private 50 meter […]

Swim Bits – May 2022

April 28, 2022 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Memories / Swim Bits by Ralph Mohr

Joe Oakes — Back in the Good Old Days, i.e., before the 1970’s, it may be hard for young folks to believe, but there was no such thing as a triathlon. Triathlons simply did not exist, not until a dozen or so military guys drinking in a bar in Honolulu, arguing about which […]

Returning To The Scene Of The Crime

March 28, 2022 in Aqua Master Online / Events / History / Human Interest / Memories by Joe Oakes

Joe Oakes — In early April 1983 four of us, my son Chris, who was studying at the University of Arizona in Tucson, his friend, bicycle mechanic Steve Smith and Mike Russell, a juvenile probation officer from Spokane, Washington, set out on what we called “Triathlon America.” I had bought an old, used […]

The Liberty To Liberty “Triathlon”

December 29, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Human Interest / Memories by Joe Oakes

November 1, 1921 – March 12, 2021 Rupert proudly was in his 100th year, and lived life to its fullest. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, son of Henry Cline Fixott and Eva Jane Scott Fixott. He was the youngest of three sons, brother to Richard and Cline […]

Dr. Rupert Edward Fixott, DMD, FACD

April 17, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Human Interest / Memories / Obituary by Aqua Master Editor

Tom Landis — Dear Friends. Our dear husband, father, brother and friend went over the final pass early Thursday morning, February 25th, at 6:26 AM. Because you have followed our blog post for six years, you knew the struggle he was going through. A few days earlier Tom had announced that he was […]

Tom’s Last Post on “Caring Bridge”

March 22, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Memories / Obituary by Aqua Master Editor

Tom Landis — Arlene Delmage—Really makes me sad but I will try to focus on the light he shown on this world. Kermit Yensen—RIP Tom – his, and Maddie’s postings on caring Bridge were inspirational insights into dealing with a life-threatening challenge in a positive, clear eyed way. I will miss Tom. Sandi […]

OMS Tributes to Tom Landis

March 22, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Memories / Obituary by Aqua Master Editor