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Roger Campbell

1961 U.S. ice dancing silver medalist

Roger Campbell, 18, competed with a succession of ice dancing partners but still managed to medal every year at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. The only child of Alexander and Ann Campbell, he began figure skating at age 13 when his family moved from Portland, Ore., to southern California. He joined the Los Angeles Figure Skating Club, and his coaches included Mabel Fairbanks, Bert Wright and Bill Kipp. He won the junior silver medal with Diane Sherbloom at the 1959 U.S. Championships in Rochester, N.Y. When the partnership dissolved, he and his new partner, Yvonne Littlefield, joined the Arctic Blades Figure Skating Club. They placed third at the 1960 U.S. Championships in Seattle and eighth at the 1960 World Figure Skating Championships in Vancouver. Campbell and Littlefield continued to train together, but in September 1960, Campbell suddenly switched partners and began training with Dona Lee Carrier. In the 1960-61 season they swept the senior titles on the west coast, winning both the Southwest Pacific Regional and Pacific Coast Sectional championships. They placed second at the 1961 U.S. Championships at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs and two weeks later won the silver medal at the North American Figure Skating Championships in Philadelphia. Roger's mother, Ann, who was very supportive of her son, was the only non-coaching parent who flew with her child to Prague.

Bio written by Patricia Shelley Bushman, author of Indelible Tracings.