Olympic committee member Harry Radix, left, accepts a check from the Chicago Athletic Association.
Harry Radix, back row, left, guided Team USA at the 1956 Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, as team manager. Pictured in the back row (l-r) are David Jenkins, Robin Greiner, Hayes Jenkins, Sully Kothmann, Ronnie Robertson and assistant team manager Ted Patterson; front row (l-r) Carol Heiss, Catherine Machado, Lucille Mary Ash, Carole Ormaca and Tenley Albright.
Harry Radix, right, served as assistant team manager at the 1952 Olympic Winter Games in Oslo, Norway. This photograph was taken at the Opening Ceremonies. Pictured in the back row (l-r) are team manager Ted Patterson, Dick Button, John Nightingale, Peter Kennedy, Hayes Jenkins and Jimmy Grogan; front row (l-r) Tenley Albright, Janet Gerhauser, Ginny Baxter, Karol Kennedy and Sonya Klopfer.
first time the event was held west of the Allegheny Mountain Range. It also hosted the Championships in 1942 and 1946, as well as the 1948 Olympic tryouts and exhibition. Te Chicago Arena, Meiss said, was much more than an
ice rink. “Everything was for the children and the adults,” Meiss
said. “We had a room to do our homework and a teacher there to help us. And they had a restaurant overlooking the rink. I remember [Radix] sitting up there a lot, although I never remember him having a pair of skates on.” Meiss recalled Radix’s passion to make the Chicago Are- na synonymous with championship-caliber skating. “He said, ‘I’m going to bring the champions here and
I’m going to pay all their expenses and their room and board,’” Meiss said. “Bobby Specht, Skippy Baxter, Robin Lee — he paid all their expenses to go win these national championships, because he wanted Chicago to be the best.” Radix also did a splendid job of cultivating skaters at the
grassroots level. “When he skated at the Chicago Arena, he was the el- derly gentleman with the ascot (everyone skated in suits and ties),” recalled former Chicago FSC member Gordon Dev- lyn. “He always skated on Monday nights, which was begin- ner night, and he would find new skaters to skate with and encourage.” Over the decades, Radix served figure skating well. He
was the perennial chairman of the U.S. Figure Skating Olym- pic Fund Committee, the finance chairman of the USOC Figure Skating Games Committee, a finance organizer of the U.S. Figure Skating Team for five Olympics, the assistant
A trophy to recognize the U.S. senior ice dancing champions was instituted by Harry Radix. The trophy is updated annually and is located at the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
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