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she said. When Hayes Jenkins and his brother, David


Jenkins, finished on the podium at the 1956 Olym- pics, Radix gave their mother a pair of tiny blade earrings. She passed the earrings down to Carol after she and Hayes married in 1961. “She thought they would mean more to me,”


Carol said. “With the earrings or special blades, he would call you over quietly or at the banquet and say ‘I have something for you.’ My mom always liked him. She died in 1956, but she always used to go and talk to Harry. Tey would sit in the stands to- gether and laugh.” Meiss was also the beneficiary of Radix’s gener-


osity. At U.S. Figure Skating’s annual meeting, Ra- dix sent her an orchid.


“Tat was because I was a close friend of Mar-


Harry Radix welcomes U.S. Figure Skating President Charles M. Rotch to Chicago.


garetta Drake [member of U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame] and we were rooming together, and Mar- garetta was one of his best friends.” Meiss has two Radix pins. “I won’t wear them because I didn’t earn them


by skating, but they are part of my collection,” she said.


Harry Radix gives friendly encouragement to Chicago Figure Skating Club members Barbara Kurtzon, Blair Bacon, Dorothy Nelson and Gail Kveton.


U.S. Figure Skating officials Warren S. Powell, second vice president; Harry E. Radix, executive committee member; Charles A. McCarthy, chairman of the


membership committee; and Roy W. McDaniel, executive committee member, ham it up at the Chicago Carnival.


World champion and Olympic silver medalist Cecilia Colledge of Great Britain was also a recipient of Radix’s kindness. “She met Harry at some point when she came to Boston in 1952 and he had a pin made for her and gave it to her,” Wright said. “Tat was some- thing he would do often.” In addition to the pins, Radix started a tradi- tion in 1936 with a perpetual trophy for the U.S. senior ice dancing champions. Te hardware was reportedly “lost in transit” and replaced in 1960 by Radix. Te 14-carat gold Harry E. Radix Trophy is located at the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo., and is updated annually. Radix also donated a trophy for the junior ice dancing champions at the Midwestern Champion- ships, which remains active today. His trophies for Midwestern senior pairs cham-


pions (now called the Powell trophy) and senior ice dancing champions are retired.


THE RADIX LEGACY When Harry E. Radix died on Aug. 18, 1965,


the sport lost a legendary figure. SKATING magazine eulogized Radix “for his


adherence to the highest ideals of sportsmanship and fair play, his concern for the welfare of competi- tors, his willingness to serve the sport whenever and wherever his services were needed, and his unswerv- ing loyalty to U.S. Figure Skating. Figure skating has been greatly enriched in its traditions and its history because of Harry Radix.” In his will, Radix left an endowment to con- tinue the Radix pins tradition in all four disciplines. He also left funds to the Chicago FSC to build an enclosed rink. In the fall of 1965, U.S. Figure Skating lead-


Diane Sherbloom and Larry Pierce accept the Radix Trophy from Harry Radix for winning the dance event at the 1961 U.S. Championships in Colorado Springs, Colo.


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ers adopted a resolution that “the Radix pins will be continued through a bequest of Mr. Radix.” Laura Parker, whose father-in-law, Howard


Parker, is Radix’s sister’s grandson, said Radix’s com- passion for others was reflected in his will. “It speaks to how generous he was,” she said.


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