{"id":176632756,"date":"2022-04-29T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squashword.ussquash.com\/?p=176632756"},"modified":"2022-04-29T12:40:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:40:31","slug":"hall-of-fame-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632756","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this month, we had the long-awaited opening of the new U.S. Squash Hall of Fame at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center. I&#8217;ve attended (and helped run) every induction ceremony we&#8217;ve had since we started in April 2000  and this was absolutely spectacular: four hundred people, incredibly touching and thoughtful speeches and videos and a palpable sense of the absolute relevance of history in this community today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dozen members of the Hall of Fame attended: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam Howe (class of 2002); Ned Edwards (2003); John Nimick (2006); Kenton Jernigan (2008); Hazel White Jones (2010); Tom Jones (2010); Joyce Davenport (2011); Lenny Bernheimer (2012); Tom Poor (2012); Michael Pierce (2015); Ben Hechscher (2017); Maurice Heckscher (2017); Anil Nayar (2018); and Ginny Akabane (2019). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, more than a dozen other Hall of Famers were represented by their children and grandchildren, cousins, friends, pupils and teammates. And one canine attended too: Welker, Tom Poor&#8217;s spirited Shih Tzu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-us-squash wp-block-embed-us-squash\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LVSt4EuZ37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ussquash.org\/2022\/04\/leo-four-new-inductees-welcomed\/\">Peggy &#038; Leo Pierce U.S. Squash Hall of Fame Officially Opened; Four New Inductees Welcomed<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Peggy &#038; Leo Pierce U.S. Squash Hall of Fame Officially Opened; Four New Inductees Welcomed&#8221; &#8212; US Squash\" src=\"https:\/\/ussquash.org\/2022\/04\/leo-four-new-inductees-welcomed\/embed\/#?secret=jtZ7yHbK6o#?secret=LVSt4EuZ37\" data-secret=\"LVSt4EuZ37\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, we had the long-awaited opening of the new U.S. Squash Hall of Fame at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center. I&#8217;ve attended (and helped run) every induction ceremony we&#8217;ve had since we started in April 2000 and this was absolutely spectacular: four hundred people, incredibly touching and thoughtful speeches and videos and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hall of Fame Opening<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176632756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176632756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176632756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176632756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176632756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}