Welcome New Members for February through July 2005

[John_Clements]

Hello

We've been deficient in posting these announcements the past few months due to distractions of moving and setting up the new studio as well as travel and research. Here they are at last. As you can see, we've been overwhelmed with interest. Our apologies to those who have not yet received their packets, as we have experienced considerable delay as related above. And our regrets to those who were not selected.

Please welcome our new and renewing Associates and Study Groups:

NEW MEMBERS:

David Askew, College Station, TX
Travis Beamon, Roanoke, TX
Josh Blacksher, Indianapolis, IN
Matthew Bryant, Rhome, TX
Dave Campbell, Portland, OR
David Casanova, East Lansing, MI
Daniel Clayburn, Lexington, KY
Anthony Coghlan, Arlington, VA
Chad Dailey, Indianapolis, IN
Brian Dailey, Fallbrook, CA
Eric Easley, Milton, FL
Travis Ebert, Madison, AL
Aaron Elkins, Denton, TX
Dex Fairbanks, Dublin, TX
Mike Greeley, Portland, OR
Jonathon Hall, Fort Worth, TX
Chris Halverson, Portland, OR
Erik Herb, Marlin, PA
Brian Hook, Astoria, NY
James Johnson, Pima, AZ
Ben Kamphaus, Moore, OK
Andrew Kesterson, Columbus, GA
Per-Erik Kihl, Falun Sweden
Sherry LaWare, Appleton, WI
Robert Lingo, Centerville, OH
Bruce Magee, Hopatocong, NJ
Joe Marmorato, Marietta, GA
Vonn Marsch, San Francisco, CA
Kevin Maurer, Coral Springs, FL
Lance Meibos, Provo UT
Zachary Parliman, Los Alamos, NM
Michael Pechacek, Phoenix, AZ
Axel Pettersson, Falun, Sweden
Robert Price, Portland, OR
William Rapier, Virginia Beach, VA
Chris Readle, Virginia Beach, VA
Presley Reeves, Stafford, VA
Tom Richardson, Portland, OR
David Scholtes, Henderson NV
Joshua Simon, Rockaway, NJ
James Smith, Pearland TX
Jacob Spill, Espanola, NM
Jemima Spill, Espanola, NM
Jonah Spill, Espanola, NM
Josh Spill, Espanola, NM
John Sobieski, Glendale, CA
Clifton Sommer, Key West, FL
Dustin Stream, Hampstead, NC
Rod Thornton, Manteo, NC
Bobby Todd, Murfreesboro, TN
Lloyd Towers, College Station, TX
Dan Urness, Portland, OR
Wesley White, Dickinson TX


Our newest Study Groups:

Portland, Oregon:
Geoffrey Gagner
Tom Richardson
Dave Campbell
Mike Greeley
Dan Urness
Chris Halverson
Robert Price

Washington, DC
Hugh Long
Mike Kerr
Anthony Coghlan

Lansing, Michigan:
Francisco Uribe
David Quintana
Erick Cardenas

Appleton, Wisconsin
Aaron Pynenberg
Ryan Pynenberg
Kevin Peterson
Brad Lambrecht
Gary Lewis
Sherry LaWare

And our renewals:

Scott Adair
Brad Asay
Gable Bates
Jaron Bernstein
Joseph Byers
Angelina Byers
Jared Cass
Christopher Crittenden
Eli Combs
Kyle Cook
Kim Cook
George Doby
James Fellrath
Truvey Felder
Cathy Ferrier
Eric Gregory
Leam Hall
Jeff Hansen
Daniel Hinson
David Hoffman
Jeff Hull
Brian Hunt
Eric Hunt
Robert Hyatt
Hans Jörnlind
David Knight
Stephen Krusel
Louis Leibowits
Hugh Long
Doug Marnick
Eric Meulemans
Marianne Moore
Murray Moore
John Oliksowycz
David Parker
Randall Pleasant
Aaron Pynenberg
Ryan Ricks
Mike Sega
Kirk Siemsen
Ben Smith
Roger Soucy
Matthew Troub
Jay Vail
Sam Vail
Eric Wagner

We hope to see everyone on the Forum, the Elist, and our many regional and local gatherings.

John C.

[Shane Smith]

Welcome all! I look forward to meeting and training with each and every one of you at one event or another <img src="/forum/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Brian Hunt]

I would also like to welcome those that are new, a those have renewed their memberships, and a big congradulations to the new study groups and their members.

Brian Hunt
GFS

[Ryan Ricks]

whoa, hugh long, official study group! congrats!

[Matthew_Anderson]

Welcome aboard all!

[Kevin Peterson]

I would like to say welcome to all the new members who are starting their journey in RMA and welcome back to all those that are continuing on theirs. I am especially glad to see that Aaron has renewed. Another year of crossed swords and bruises at ARMA Appleton!

Kevin Peterson
ARMA Appleton

[Derek Wassom]

Welcome! <img src="/forum/images/icons/cool.gif" alt="" />

[David Kite]

Welcome!

David Kite
GFS, ARMA in IN

[Randall Pleasant]

Welcome new scholars and study groups.

[BrentCoomes]

I'd like to say welcome to the new people and to intro myself.

I'm Brent Coomes a Correctional Officer in Washington State US.
I've Studied Ju Fan, Wing Chun, Saboten-ryu Aikido, RMAX, and Manaois Eskrima.

The Eskrima is what has brought me to the Historical European Arts.
I'm working on the German school of long sword and looking to apply to ARMA in the New Year.
I've done some research on the other historical groups out there but none hit home like ARMA. I'd like to extend a warm thank you to John Clements on this movement of real Combative Historical Arts.

Again welcome and thank you.

[Erich Wagner]

It amazes me how big this list keeps getting. Welcome everyone.

[Mike Chidester]

How many members are we now? We must be pushing 500, at least.

[Jeff Hansen]

Congratulations all, and to Travis in Madison, Alabama, please feel free to contact me. I'm just down the road, a little south of Birmingham in Pelham.

[Aaron_Elkins]

Thank you guys. You know how to make a fella feel welcome.

I suppose a brief introduction is in order:

My name is Aaron Elkins and I've been in ARMA (white and red shirt) for 9 months now. I'm actually with the ARMA DFW group and practice under their tutelage. I've been interested in medieval swordsmanship now ever since elementary school when a broom was also a sword. I look forward to my time spent here and the lessons I'm sure to learn.

Simply, I can't wait to meet you all when I'm not exhausted from swordplay.

Aaron