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Fencer Returns to Waiting Books After Try For Budapest Trophy
Claudia Reeder has settled down to books and classes at KU after her recent encounter with top notch fencing competition in Budapest, Hungary.
Miss Reeder, a sophomore from Overland Park, was the only woman from the United States to be certified to enter the Junior (under 20) International Fencing Championships with 300 other fencers from all parts of the world.
Her trip was sponsored by donations from private individuals.
She didn't bring home any medals. In fact she was eliminated in the early rounds, as were most of the competitors. She was defeated by the third and fourth place winners.
HER PARTNER, Michael Gaylor of New Jersey, took 12th place in sabre, but was eliminated in the other two events (foil and epee).
Miss Reeder still spent most of her time fencing with many of the European teams, and she received training from Hungarian, Yugoslavian and English coaches.
She also got to observe the strong points of all the competing teams, and she was duly impressed by the "intense training, good coaching and the dedication of the teams there."
After the competition in Hungary the two Americans spent four days in Belgrade as guests of the Yugoslavian Federation. Their hosts, the
two national champions of Yugoslavia, invited the pair to return to the country next October for the invitational international fencing tournament in Belgrade.
MISS REEDER AND Gaylor were surprised the emphasis placed on fencing, and sports in general, in Europe.
In the places we visited the whole social life revolves around sports clubs. They're just like families. Sports is a very serious business there, and in Budapest thousands of people came for each event," she said.
One thing Miss Reeder learned from her trip, aside from fencing pointers, is that foreign language is definitely her field. A French and Spanish major at KU she spoke French most of her time in Europe.
Interpreters were provided for the
Executive to Discuss Foreign Trade Field
An executive of the American Institute for Foreign Trade will be here April 27 to discuss current developments and opportunities in the foreign trade field.
Berger Erickson, executive vice president of the AIFT will also be available for interviews with students interested in the field of foreign commerce.
Erickson teaches international commerce at the Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.
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occasions when there was no common language. Still there were times when she had to resort to sign language and gestures, and she said it was amazing how well persons can communicate when they really want to.
THE AMERICANS COMPRISED the smallest group at Budapest, but they held the publicity spotlight along with the Russian delegation. The Hungarian press seemed very much interested in the Americans' opinions on the competition and the city of Budapest.
Miss Reeder was the subject of a radio interview, and on Easter Sunday she was taken about the city by a Hungarian who was a United Press International representative. Appropriately for Easter, he took her to five churches and threw in a tour of the city (all the while snapping pictures).
About the only immediate reminder of her past and future in the fencing world is a large silver bowi, engraved with her name and "Sports Illustrated Award of Merit" which was sent to her by the editors of that magazine.
But home again, she is trying to catch up on the two weeks of classes she missed. She is finding it no small chore.
And she knows she has a lot of work to do before she's ready for the 1968 Olympics.
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