Pictures from the North American
Black Belt Hall of Fame
Banquet October 19th, 2001, Lakewood California
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SPECIAL THANKS! Special thanks are in order to a few people for helping setting up and organizing this event, without them it might have been impossible, it certainly would not have been as wonderful as it was. I want to specifically thank and name those people. My thanks go out to our good friend Sigung Tim Wolfe for his support over the 1 plus year that I have set up the event, Sifu Bill Wilson for his help and support in so many areas, my sister Jean West and my wife Nancy who helped extensively as well. Also my thanks to my students who helped in so many areas, John Moore, Al Navarro, Greg Young, Ray Mortaloni and Ed Idian, it would not have been possible without you all! All thanks and acknowledgement should go soley to the people just mentioned because they worked very hard ot make it happen!
We have a few inductees that were not able to make it to the event for various reasons. Those inductees were:
Master John W. Wolfe
Professor Larry Hilton
Sigung George Lim
Sigung Rich Mooney
Sifu Bill Wilson
Soke W. Dan Hausel
Master Jorgen Rasmussen
Shidoshi Jimmy Wennberg
Professor Wolf Hillesheim
Sifu Johnny Lee
Sifu Jimmy Willis
Sifu John G. San Agustin
Soke Frank M. Schneider
Soke D. Benedetto Stumpf
Our thanks also to our entertainers, CAOC Lion Dancers, Hikari Taiko Drummers, and our DJ Alex Galindo, everyone did a wonderful job!