Arrow
Object number2007.47.3
Datec. 1975
MediumVarious metals; Aluminum(?); rubber; paint
Credit LineGift of the Fowkes Family
DescriptionTubular arrow, aluminum(?). Silver metal tip; shaft closest to tip colored blue; faded printed labels near middle. Small middle white section with red and blue stripes bordered with gold; shaftment pink. Three rubber fletchings; white plastic nock.Dimensions29 in. (73.7 cm)MarksLabels: "...[registered trademark] 2014..."
On opposite side of above label: DARRELL PACE".
Historical NotesArrow from Olympic and national champion archer Darrell Pace owned by C.R. "Bud" Fowkes. Born October 23, 1956, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Darrell Owen Pace is a former championship archer from the United States, who won two individual Olympic titles--in 1976 and 1984--and several national archery championships during his career. Since 1920, Bud Fowkes was a resident of Verona; he graduated from Penn Hills High School in 1939. After service in WWII took him to Alaska, he returned to Western Pennsylvania in 1945 and went to work at Gulf Research as a master mechanic. Because a field artillery blast had damaged his hearing in 1944 and firing guns became painful for him, Fowkes, a hunter, took up archery in 1947. He competed in archery tournaments during the 1960s, but soon turned his interests to coaching, and designing and repairing bows. Fowkes coached numerous archers and archery teams both in the national and international circuit. He was selected to be the U.S. Olympic archery coach for the Munich games of 1972, where members of his team won the gold medal in both the men's and women's bracket. As his reputation grew, Fowkes was invited by nations around the world to coach and teach their archery teams. Fowkes died in December of 2006.
Related person
Darrell Owen Pace
(born 1956)
Previous owner
Clarence R. Fowkes
(died 2006)
Related institution
Penn Hills High School
Related institution
Gulf Research and Development Company
Related institution
Gulf Oil Corporation
(1907 - 1984)
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