Frozen in Time. Nikki Nichols

Frozen in Time

First trade paperback edition 2009

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nichols, Nikki, 1975–

Frozen in time: the enduring legacy of the 1961 US figure skating team/by Nikki Nichols.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN-13: 978-1-57860-334-3

(previous ISBN for hardcover edition: 978-1-57860-260-5)

1. Figure skating. 2. Figure skaters—United States—Biography. 3. Aircraft accidents—Belgium. I. Title.

GV850.4.N55 2006

796.91′2′0922—dc22

2005021563

Front cover: Photo of Laurence Owen, courtesy of Vinson Owen School; photo of Stephanie Westerfeld, courtesy of Diane Yeomans Robins

Back cover: Photo of Laurence Owen, courtesy of Winchester Massachusetts Archival Center

Title page: Photo of members of the U.S. Figure Skating Team posing before boarding Belgian Sabena Airline plane at New York’s Idlewild Airport, February 14, 1961. Photo courtesy of AP Images

Cover designed by Doug Klocke and Scott McGrew. Interior designed by Andrea Kupper.

Printed in the United States of America

Distributed by Publishers Group West

Edited by Jack Heffron

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Afterword

Appendix

Autobiography: Self-Analysis

References

About the Author

Dedicated to the members of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team, their coaches, the officials, and the loving family members who died in the crash of Sabena Flight 548, and to everyone who works to preserve their memory.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the USFSA and World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame for immense assistance in archival research and interview contacts, and a sincere thanks to everyone who took the time to share their stories for this tribute.

Great thanks to my coaches, Kim Seybold Catron, Sandy Lamb, and Serguei Zaitsev, for inspiring my growing passion for skating. And a huge thanks to Ronald Ludington, who helped in countless ways. Thank you to Dr. Alvin Swonger who granted permission to use his written remembrances of Laurence for this book. Greg Hill and the Vinson Owen Elementary School must also be thanked for providing additional materials for the revised paperback edition of this book.

Thanks to two talented writers, Charles Haas and Matthew Gladden, for their wonderful editing suggestions and moral support. Most of all, I offer my most profound thanks to Jack Heffron of Clerisy Press for his editing acumen and great belief in this project.

Thanks to the following individuals for granting interviews and providing materials and support:

Roberto Agnolini

Dr. Tenley Albright

Randy Bairnsfather and the Town of Winchester Archives

Belgian Ministry of Communications

William Boeck

Sophia Bowers of the Vinson Owen Elementary School

Jim Browning

Joyce Butchart and the Seattle Figure Skating Club

Diane Cassidy and the Cheyenne Mountain Heritage Center

Sven Christiansen

John Clemson

Dr. Lorraine Hanlon Comanor

Debbie Conrad

Michael J. Cunningham

Carol and William Cunningham

Howard Deardorff

Ann de Brabander

Annie and Diane de Leeuw

Kathi Doak

Susan Duncan

Jane Dystel

Charles Foster

Belinda Gillett

Diana Hall and the Ottawa Public Library

Ruth Harle

Greg Hill

Dan Hollander

Eileen Seigh Honnen

Lee Hubby

Maria Jelinek

Tanya Howe Johnson

Jane Bucher Jones

U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy

Sally Knoll

Mr. Pieter Kollen

Tonia Kwiatkowski

Sandy Lamb

Emery Leger

Mickey Leiter

Ron Ludington

Paul Maca

Sandy Masengale

Virginia Might

Melody Miller

Mark Mitchell

Catherine and Michael Nichols

John Nicks

Kevin O’Sullivan

Roberta Parkinson

Amy Partain

Pikes Peak Library

Barbara Ramsay

Yvette Reyes

Diane Yeomans Robins

Richard Rosborough

Elizabeth (Sherry) Ruch and the Minto Figure Skating

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