Monday, January 23, 2006

Richard Hand, 4th degree, head instructor, Corvallis Karate School. Eric Siaou and Gil Hartl watching on right. George Clark refereeing


Riverside Grange hall between Corvallis and
Albany. Kevin Greene, (3rd dan?) was the sensei there for a couple of years. Fifth from left, Sue Doyle. Eighth from left, Rich Hand.


Sensei Vern Vaden, 4th degree?,from Los Angeles; Nishiyama sensei; Sensei Yamaguchi, degree unknown; Sensei Shirai, head instructor in Italy.


Vince Nistico, Kevin Greene. Kevin Greene was a teenage prodigy in Shotokan who trained at Central with Nishiyama, attained 3rd degree, returned to Oregon and became a state police officer (!). We haven't seen him in many years. He ran the Riverside Grange dojo between Albany and Corvallis for a few years in the early eighties, before my time.















