Riverdale Alumnus Making School Proud
During July, Atlanta, Georgia was home to the 2010 Summer National Fencing Championships. Two Riverdale fencers, Tim Morehouse ’96 and Stephen Moch ’10 both took home medals from the competitions.
In addition, the U.S. Fencing Hall of Fame inducted seven new members, including Riverdale alumnus Bob Blum. Blum was Riverdale’s first Olympic fencer and he graduated from the school in 1946 as Scholar-Athlete of the year. He also started on the football team and lettered in track and field.
As the Hall of Fame website explains, “While balancing a remarkable half-century legal career, government service spanning six decades (which continued until his retirement just months ago, at age 80, as one of Andrew Cuomo’s New York State Assistant Attorneys General), family life as an active father of four accomplished children and husband to one of our country’s leading social welfare advocates, Bob remarkably established himself as a dangerous and yet much-loved-and-admired sabreur, competing at, captaining teams that attended, and officiating for, countless international events from the mid-1950s through the end of the 1980s.”
This is certainly an achievement that can make all Riverdale students, and the Riverdale Board, including Gregg Hymowitz, quite proud.
