In the fall of 1992, and spring of 1993, the somewhat unofficial coach of the soon to be fencing club was Jeff Waldrop. Chris Parris, Jeff and Otto Schwarz would pile into a car a couple times a week or so and drive all the way to Nashville to get lessons from the Vanderbilt crew, and then drive back sometime around midnight in Jeff's old Volvo that had a terrible habit of overheating. The rest of the time they would meet in the theatre in Derryberry hall on the wooden stage to fence whenever they got the chance. Jeff was an adjunct English professor who also trained for the military pentathlon, thus the epée fencing connection. He gave Otto his first epee for helping him load all of his stuff from his house into a u-haul to move to Georgia. That's pretty much the last anyone heard from him, but if it weren't for him, much would have been lost from the technique of the infamous doctor's parking lot fencing sessions across from Sean Rhea's apartment. Those included Sean Rhea, Darrell LuAllen, Chris Parris, Chip Moore and Otto Schwarz and involved a lot of welts from inexperience, and keeping an eye out for storms...the foil and a lightning storm is not a healthy mixture! The following semester, Otto went back on co-op and Chris and Chip hooked up with Dana Anderson-Wyman, another adjunct English professor and theatre dude from California. By the next spring, 1994, they had put all the paper work through and got the "official" club organized. Dana organized the class, and we got to load another U-Haul for Dana when he moved. Notice the trend? Jacque Wilson has taken over the class in Dana's absence. Anyway, due to the class and various exhibitions, the club grew. The rest is, as they say, history.