Allan Kwartler

Allan Kwartler began to fence while at Michigan State. He eventually competed in three Olympics and at the 1955 and 1959 Pan American Games, winning gold with the sabre team (with George Worth, Dick Dyer, and Tibor Nyilas) and silver with the foil team (with Albie Axelrod, Paul Makler, Sr., and Hal Goldsmith) in 1955 and gold medals in both the individual and team sabre (with Robert Blum, Tibor Nyilas, George Worth, and the non-Olympians Walter Farber and William Goering) at the 1959 PanAms. He competed on 10 U.S. team national champions. From 1960 to 1995 he worked as an insurance underwriter, but also coached fencing at Brooklyn Polytechnic, SUNY Purchase and West Point. He was known as Doc to his students and was remembered by them for the pipe he always smoked, and his fencing skill. He was inducted into the Yonkers Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Westchester Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.