A Page from North Quabbin History: When the world came to Orange
Sports Illustrated cover for August 1962.
Program cover
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In August of 1962, the world came to Orange when parachutists from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, England, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and South Africa as well as the United States came to participate in the sixth World Parachuting Championship held at the Orange Municipal Airport from Aug. 11 to Sept. 3, 1962. According to the Enterprise and Journal of July 19, 1962, the United States teams included Sgt. Loy B. Brydon of the U.S. Army, James Arender, Gerald P. Bourquin, Sgt. Richard Fortenberry of the U.S. Army Philip J. Vander Weg, with alternate team member Henry L. Simbro. Both Sgt. Fortenberry and Arender had also been members of the 1960 United States Parachuting Team where Arender had won the