{"id":18,"date":"2018-09-11T14:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantafsc.com\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:48:13","slug":"club-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/atlantafsc.com\/club-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Club History"},"content":{"rendered":"

A history of ice skating in Atlanta & the Atlanta Figure Skating Club<\/strong><\/h1><\/h1><\/div>

The story begins in the early 1950\u2019s, when Holiday on Ice installed a temporary ice surface in the old City Auditorium.\u00a0\u00a0The night before the show opened, a large crowd of Atlantans were invited to skate. Bill Barg and Mary Bohland of Holiday on Ice took notice of this interest and in late 1955 opened the \u201cFigure 8\u201d rink in a building at the Lakewood Fairgrounds.\u00a0\u00a0Henry Lie (Lee) and Fran Pappas were the instructors, and Jerry Smith was the engineer.<\/p>\n

Management set aside two hours on Monday nights for a figure skating club to meet.\u00a0\u00a0Thus the Atlanta Figure Skating Club was formed.\u00a0\u00a0The Club was originally all single adults, and only two were U.S. Figure Skating members, Rud Ellis and Robin Watts.\u00a0\u00a0As interest in figure skating grew, a Junior Club was organized, and Fran Pappas taught group lessons during the Club time.<\/p>\n

Unable to obtain a suitable lease at Lakewood from the city or to find an alternate location, the club moved to a garage of Paul Jones\u2019 wrestling arena on Houston St. in downtown Atlanta.\u00a0\u00a0A post was in the center of the ice!\u00a0\u00a0It was here that judges were brought in from St. Louis to judge the first figure tests and AFSC gained U.S. Figure Skating membership.<\/p>\n

Management continued to look for a better location.\u00a0\u00a0The pipes were actually moved to Broadview Plaza (now Lindberg Plaza), but a lease could not be worked out, so the rink equipment was sold and moved to Augusta, GA.\u00a0\u00a0All was not lost, however, because Mrs. Carling Dinkler Sr. had taken up skating and had built a small Belvedere Rink in Decatur.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Nicol brothers started building the first Igloo Rink, a 60×100 surface on Roswell Rd. in Buckhead.\u00a0\u00a0The Club moved there and skated for several years.\u00a0\u00a0Fran Pappas led several Carnivals, which were about as good as could be held on the limited ice surface, before the Igloo was torn down and replaced by a full size rink, which was nicknamed \u201cThe Bigloo.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0During the time of the Igloo, Atlanta enjoyed a boom in building ice rinks, none of which exist today.<\/p>\n

Bruce Stultz worked at the Igloo long enough to see that a rink was needed for training competitive figure skaters.\u00a0\u00a0He built the rink at Parkaire Mall and hired Lynn Dixon Thompson to run the training program. The AFSC moved to Parkaire and hosted its first U.S. Figure Skating competition, the 1976 South Atlantic Regional Championships.\u00a0\u00a0Later, the Mall was completely rebuilt, and a separate building constructed to house the present day Marietta Ice Center.<\/p>\n

In 1997, the club moved to the two surface facility, The Cooler in Alpharetta.<\/p>\n

History submitted by Rud Ellis, founding member of the AFSC.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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The story of the Atlanta Figure Skating Club logo<\/h1>\n<\/div>

When graceful Atlanta sprang up in Reconstruction years from the ashes of a bloody war, she took as her official symbol, a phoenix, the fabulous bird, which came forth alive from the nest ashes of its parent.\u00a0 Our Atlanta Figure Skating Club logo features the phoenix, uniquely reflecting Atlanta.\u00a0 The design then transports the phoenix to the ice by incorporating a figure skate blade within the golden flame, which symbolizes the ashes from which the phoenix rose.<\/p>\n

The circular shape celebrates the discipline of our orderly sport of figure skating, as it recalls the circles upon which our skating edges are based\u2014and upon which they were formerly skated. Our club\u2019s symbol tells the AFSC story in crisp navy blue, white, and yellow.<\/p>\n

Requested for inclusion by the authors, the pin bearing our club logo appears in\u00a0Figure Skating Pins,\u00a0<\/em>a handsome book of selected pins which was published in New York in 1987.\u00a0 Selected from several designs, the logo was created by Lee Schaffer and was adopted by the Atlanta Figure Skating Club in 1969 as its first official club symbol.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Club Presidents<\/h1>\n
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  • 1<\/span><\/span><\/span>955-57\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ken Duke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1957-58\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rutherford Ellis Jr.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1958-60\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jerry Siegel\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1960-63\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rutherford Ellis Jr.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1963-66\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Margaret Whitmore<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1966-69\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rutherford Ellis Jr.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1969-71\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sandy Wells\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1971-72\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Patsy Morris<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1972-74\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rutherford Ellis Jr.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1974-75\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mary Lucille Ager<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1975-77\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Susan Johnson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1977-79\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mrs. Thomas Milligan<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1979-80\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Phelps\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1980-81\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nanci Rand<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1981-82\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marjorie Inlow\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1982-83\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Billy Turner<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1983-85\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marjorie Inlow\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1985-87\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eileen Roskos<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1987-88\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Patty Morgan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1988-89\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Connie Wells<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1989-91\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharon Booth\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1991-93\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ron Nelson<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1993-96\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharon Hyre\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1996-97\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Allyson Griffies\/Jane Neville<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1997-98\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robert Weaver\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1998-99\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lynn Thompson<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1999-02\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharon Hyre\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2002-03\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Julia Janas<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2003-04\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jane Jud\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2004-05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Elizabeth Wright-Johnson<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2005-06\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharon Hyre\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2006<\/span><\/span><\/span>-08\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robyn Marshall<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2008-09\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharon Hyre<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2009-19 \u00a0 \u00a0 Kathy Shehee<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2019-21 \u00a0 \u00a0 Amy Kilheffer<\/li>\n
  • 2021-22 \u00a0 \u00a0 Catherine Hackney<\/li>\n
  • 2022-23 \u00a0 \u00a0 Catherine Hackney<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>
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