by Lauren Serowik

10 May 2019, 10:00am

ISHOF’s First Honorees: A Sports Spectacular

The International Swimming Hall of Fame inducted its first class on Dec. 27, 1965. The $1,190,000 swimming pool complex in Fort Lauderdale had just been completed, and swimmers, coaches and fans alike were on hand to pay homage to the 20 men and women as the first inductees into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Those first honorees were Buster Crabbe (swimmer), Charlie Daniels (swimmer), Gertrude Ederle (swimmer), Dawn Fraser (swimmer), Katherine Rawls (swimmer/diver), Duke Kahanamoku (swimmer), Murray Rose (swimmer), Adolph Kiefer (swimmer), Don Schollander (swimmer), Matthew Webb (swimmer), Kusuo Kitamura (swimmer), Johnny Weissmuller (swimmer), Pat McCormick (diver), Albert C. White (diver), Pamela Morris (synchronized swimmer), Beulah Grundling (aquatic artist), Matt Mann (coach), Bob Kiphuth (coach), Wilbert E. Longfellow (contributor), Jamison Handy (contributor) and R. Max Ritter (contributor).

The event was to celebrate the opening of the 10-lane, 50-meter heated fresh-water swimming pool and 25-yard diving well/warm-up pool that still stands today.

The dedication was a blended Ed Sullivan Show, reported Swimming World Magazine in its February 1966 issue. College and high school swimmers came by the thousands to Fort Lauderdale to train, swim and enjoy the south Florida sunshine and escape the harsh winters of the rest of the country. Nearly 4,500 spectators were in attendance for the 20-event, three-hour show, filmed by CBS-TV for a “Sports Spectacular” that was to be released in early February.

Two of the biggest names in the history of the sport of swimming were the stars of the show: “cinema-Tarzans” Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. 1964 Olympic champion Donna de Varona helped christen the pool, as bottles of water from pools all over the world were emptied into the Hall of Fame pool.

To read the full article about ISHOF’s historic first Honorees,
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