Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Dunbar Community Center's Great Jim Robinson Instructs Butler PA, Kids On The Pommel Horse


Black Buzz News Service
The James S. Robinson Jr. Project
The Robinson+Saunders Archives
Special Report
Slippery Rock, PA
June 18, 2011


             
JIM ROBINSON INSTRUCTS
ON POMMEL HORSE AT DUNBAR COMMUNITY CENTER IN BUTLER, PA

The below picture shows James S. Robinson Jr. instructing/teaching his young students at the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Community Center in Butler PA, on the Pommel Horse on July 19, 1954. I cannot verify who the young people in the picture are but they all lived in Butler PA.

Mr. Robinson, my father was an accomplished all around gymnast, who was a former member of the University of Pittsburgh Gymnastic and Track and Field Teams in the late 1920's and early 1930's.
 Further Mr. Robinson was also a Master in Judo and Akaido.

 I have a copy of his Martial Arts Identification card which states as follows:

   Martial Arts of America Inc. Identification Card
                                                   1973                      

                                                     
        This is to Certify That
         James S. Robinson, Jr.
         of R. D. 4                   
         Slippery Rock, PA     
         Is Duly Registered In The Art of
         JUDO- AKAIDO         
         Emmet Tai         
         Head Master M.A. of A. Inc.
               
                                   
                                          


  

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