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Brief History of Eaton, Ohio
club
The Eaton club was originally
established in 1973 by Sensei Dan
Coovert.
Sensei Avery was one of Sensei
Coovert's early students.
The Eaton club closed
in 1976 and many of the students went to the
Greenville club to train.
The Greenville club
was run by Sensei Jack McPeek, who gave it to
Sensei Doug Mayo, who gave it to Sensei Mark
Preston who currently runs the
dojo.
One of the
students who came from Eaton, Herb Childress,
became on of Sensei, now Kyoshi Jack McPeek's
black belts.
He ran a
school for many years in Lewisburg and he produced
a black belt by the name of Nellie
Tilton.
Sensei Nellie
Tilton opened a club in West Alexandria in a
couple of locations
before moving the club to
Eaton. The club ended up next to Cassano's on
U.S. 35 where most people remember it.
Sensei
May and Sensei Avery trained with Sensei Tilton
and received their 1st degree black belts from
her as well as others.
When Sensei Tilton had
to move back to Tennessee due to family illness,
she turned the club over to
Sensei Mark
May, her senior black belt,
who
ran the club for well over a year before
having to close it.
Sensei Daryl
Avery continued his training under
Sensei Jeff Leistner
President of the World
Shorin-ryu Karate-do Federation.
He was
promoted eventually to Ni Dan (2nd degree) by
Hanshi Frank Grant
Founder and Chairman of the
Board of the WSKF.
Under the Charter of the
WSKF, Sensei Avery reopened the Eaton club on
January 1, 1999.
Since
then, the building
on U.S 35 where the Club was for many years was
sold and it was relocated
to the Eaton Ohio
YMCA on the North side of town.
Sensei Avery has continued to be
promoted. His lineage is outlined in the
following chart.
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