THE U.S. SQUASH TEAM VS MEXICO

April 27th -30th, Mexico City 2006

THE OFFICAL SITE OF THE UNITED STATES SQUASH COPA TEAM

	GEORGE WADSWORTH'S BIO Dad was in the diplomatic service holding posts in I GEORGE WADSWORTH'S BIO Dad was in the diplomatic service holding posts in Europe, Washington and the Near East. He was in Istanbul, Turkey in 1922 where I was the first boy born in the Admiral Bristol Hospital. The hospital was founded by the American Government that was then running Turkey. From Turkey, we moved to Washington and four years later to Cairo, where Dad won the golf championship of Egypt, receiving the silver cup that is now the "Copa Wadsworth" Trophy. Mother died there of a combination of typhoid and diphtheria, leaving Dad with two children, me and my 4 year old sister, Wendy. He sent us home to live with relatives who very kindly took us in for two years. We then all three went to Persia for three years where Dad got the American School started and built a golf course with the help of my donkey, Cad chon. In 1934, he was transferred to Bucharest. We took the long way to get there via the Caspian Sea, Baku, Tiflis, Batum and Istanbul where he left us with professors at Robert College to go to the American School for a year. We then joined him in Bucharest where he had become a good friend of the French Charge who invited us to spend the summer with his wife and daughters in the north of France at their Chateau de Bermicourt. Jerusalem was next where there was no good school so we went for two years to the American Community School of Beirut, Lebanon. In 1938, Wendy and I took the American Express Freighter around several Mediterranean ports and then over to Boston. This gave us a chance to become very good friends which we have been ever since. Wendy went to Emma Willard School and I to Nichols School in Buffalo where in spite of my diversified schooling, they did a great job getting me into Princeton and getting rid of my English accent. Buffalo was where I got my first job "time keeper in the core room of the Hemingway Steel Foundry". I really enjoyed Princeton where I made many good friends and by accelerating got my degree in the School of Public and International Affairs in 1943. Later that year, the Marine Corps sent me to Parris Island Boot Camp and then to Officers' Training and Field Artillery School in Quantico where very luckily, I was third in the class. Number 1 and 2 went on to Aerial Observers School and both were shot down over Iwo Jima. The following is copied from our "Twenty Five Years On" Princeton Class Yearbook in 1969. "After Princeton, I spent three years as a Marine Artillery Officer, two of them in the Pacific. My only action was on Iwo Jima. After the war, International General Electric put me through a year's training course and sent me to their subsidiary in Mexico where I spent 8 years, running the merchandise division for the last three. In 1955, I left G.E. to set up Compania Electrica Mexicana, a light bulb and fluorescent tube manufacturing company. It has kept me very busy ever since. Some of the community activities I have worked for are: The American Benevolent Society, the Mexican-American Cultural Institute, The American Hospital, The University Club, The American Chamber of Commerce and The Community Chest Drive. I attend Christ Church Anglican, play tennis, golf and sail. This year, I will be serving on the Mexican Olympic Sailing Committee and have devoted many years to the board on the Mexican Electrical Manufacturers Chamber and of a small Mexican Bank. The Mexican haves made me very much at home here and I'm very glad of this chance to thank them in print." In 1971, I married Renel Dinneen and bought a house with a squash court. I began practicing and played almost every year in the US Nationals. In 1990, Renel divorced me and I guess this gave me more time to practice because in 93' and 94' USSRA ranked me number three in men's 70s singles. In 1990, I got the Copa Wadsworth Squash matches between the USA and Mexico started. They have been a great success in promoting friendship among players in the two countries and have received lots of help, especially from Alan Fox, Purdy Jordan and Ricardo Solis. In 2000, I married Louise Stanton and have lived happily ever after. She has been a great help organizing the Copa Wadsworth matches. kkkkdejdfjfkdkfkfd jj

GEORGE WADSWORTH'S BIO Dad was in the diplomatic service holding posts in I GEORGE WADSWORTH'S BIO

Dad was in the diplomatic service holding posts in Europe, Washington and the Near East. He was in Istanbul, Turkey in 1922 where I was the first boy born in the Admiral Bristol Hospital. The hospital was founded by the American Government that was then running Turkey. From Turkey, we moved to Washington and four years later to Cairo, where Dad won the golf championship of Egypt, receiving the silver cup that is now the "Copa Wadsworth" Trophy. Mother died there of a combination of typhoid and diphtheria, leaving Dad with two children, me and my 4 year old sister, Wendy. He sent us home to live with relatives who very kindly took us in for two years. We then all three went to Persia for three years where Dad got the American School started and built a golf course with the help of my donkey, Cad chon. In 1934, he was transferred to Bucharest. We took the long way to get there via the Caspian Sea, Baku, Tiflis, Batum and Istanbul where he left us with professors at Robert College to go to the American School for a year. We then joined him in Bucharest where he had become a good friend of the French Charge who invited us to spend the summer with his wife and daughters in the north of France at their Chateau de Bermicourt. Jerusalem was next where there was no good school so we went for two years to the American Community School of Beirut, Lebanon. In 1938, Wendy and I took the American Express Freighter around several Mediterranean ports and then over to Boston. This gave us a chance to become very good friends which we have been ever since. Wendy went to Emma Willard School and I to Nichols School in Buffalo where in spite of my diversified schooling, they did a great job getting me into Princeton and getting rid of my English accent. Buffalo was where I got my first job "time keeper in the core room of the Hemingway Steel Foundry". I really enjoyed Princeton where I made many good friends and by accelerating got my degree in the School of Public and International Affairs in 1943. Later that year, the Marine Corps sent me to Parris Island Boot Camp and then to Officers' Training and Field Artillery School in Quantico where very luckily, I was third in the class. Number 1 and 2 went on to Aerial Observers School and both were shot down over Iwo Jima. The following is copied from our "Twenty Five Years On" Princeton Class Yearbook in 1969. "After Princeton, I spent three years as a Marine Artillery Officer, two of them in the Pacific. My only action was on Iwo Jima. After the war, International General Electric put me through a year's training course and sent me to their subsidiary in Mexico where I spent 8 years, running the merchandise division for the last three. In 1955, I left G.E. to set up Compania Electrica Mexicana, a light bulb and fluorescent tube manufacturing company. It has kept me very busy ever since. Some of the community activities I have worked for are: The American Benevolent Society, the Mexican-American Cultural Institute, The American Hospital, The University Club, The American Chamber of Commerce and The Community Chest Drive. I attend Christ Church Anglican, play tennis, golf and sail. This year, I will be serving on the Mexican Olympic Sailing Committee and have devoted many years to the board on the Mexican Electrical Manufacturers Chamber and of a small Mexican Bank. The Mexican haves made me very much at home here and I'm very glad of this chance to thank them in print." In 1971, I married Renel Dinneen and bought a house with a squash court. I began practicing and played almost every year in the US Nationals. In 1990, Renel divorced me and I guess this gave me more time to practice because in 93' and 94' USSRA ranked me number three in men's 70s singles. In 1990, I got the Copa Wadsworth Squash matches between the USA and Mexico started. They have been a great success in promoting friendship among players in the two countries and have received lots of help, especially from Alan Fox, Purdy Jordan and Ricardo Solis. In 2000, I married Louise Stanton and have lived happily ever after. She has been a great help organizing the Copa Wadsworth matches.

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