First chartered in 1912 – the same week that Fenway Park opened and just eight days after the Titanic sank – the Skating Club of Boston is the third-oldest American skating club and a founding member of U.S.
Two teenage skaters, their mothers, and two coaches from the Skating Club of Boston were killed Wednesday night when the plane bringing them back from a national development camp in Wichita, Kansas, collided with an Army helicopter and fell into the frigid Potomac River.
For the next eight decades, the utilitarian barn on the banks of the Charles River was one of the centers of American figure skating, training Button and fellow Olympic champion Tenley Albright, Olympic medalists Nancy Kerrigan and Paul Wylie and scores of U.S. champions.
The history of the Skating Club of Boston is the history of American figure skating – in good times and in bad.
Skating Club of Boston CEO Doug Zeghibe said the 1961 plane crash left a hole in the organization that lingered for decades.
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