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Theodore A. “Ted” Arcidi NU 1982, Oral History Interview March 11, 2015 at Interviewee’S Business in Manchester, NH Interviewed by Sarah Yahm Transcribed by C.T 1 Theodore A. “Ted” Arcidi NU 1982, Oral History Interview March 11, 2015 At interviewee’s business in Manchester, NH Interviewed by Sarah Yahm Transcribed by C.T. Haywood, NU ’12, April 4, 2015 SY: Whenever you’re ready we can let the games begin. TA: Alright, shoot. SY: So can you introduce yourself for the mic. TA: Ted Arcidi, graduate of Norwich in ’82. SY: Excellent, and we’re here at your business in Manchester, New Hampshire. What’s the name of your business? TA: Building and business. I developed this building. It’s a mill building, an older building and I also have my business here, Weightlifters Warehouse where we sell fitness equipment. SY: Excellent, can I borrow a pen? Interview pauses SY: Okay, so the thing with oral history is we get to start out early. So where were you born? And when you were a kid what did you want to be when you grew up? TA: A Norwich grad [said in joking tone]—hold on I’ll get there SY: Okay, okay. TA: I was born in, I was born in Buffalo, New York and what did I want to aspire to? I didn’t even know until like high school. I wanted to be a pro hockey player because I was I was really good in hockey and I played it, you know, religiously – practiced, practiced, practiced, practiced. I think I got my work ethic from my parents. I mean I’d be on the pond skating when—I went to private school so it was great I’d be skating by myself just doing drills, shooting drills, things like that for hours. Stick handling. I was a defenseman but I was small. I didn’t really grow until like college, you know, late bloomer. And during that time I got into weight training and I just I just caught the bug you know. I was red shirting for Norwich. I was playing hockey at Salem State. I was in the JV’s over there. They brought me up a couple of times to the varsity but I still needed some more work so I just started lifting weights and doing my cardio, doing my running and when I went to Norwich I had to red shirt because when you transfer you have to you know sit out a year. And that’s when I just started lifting even more and more and making like I said those five pound gains on the bench every week. SY So [coughs] what did you like about it? TA: I loved it because I could just see my body changing and getting stronger. And maybe helped out my self-esteem too you know because I was kind of scrawny. I was wiry, I was strong. All’s I used to do before was push-ups, sit ups, a lot of calisthenics, which are good which I find out are really advantageous to weight lifting because all those years that I was doing that I was, my tendons were getting stronger and my ligaments. I was getting a good base core. 2 SY: Yeah. So I’m just, going back to you, you at like five years old or ten years old how would you felt at that moment… TA: If I knew what was gonna happen? SY: Yeah when you got the title, “strongest man in the world!” TA: Oh it would be, I wouldn’t believe it, they would have the wrong guy. It wasn’t even in my wheelhouse, wasn’t even in my radar. It was like, yeah I mean it was just like reserved for people that were born big or maybe they were just lived on farms or something I don’t know. But I, but I never had that type of diligence then. And it wasn’t a popular sport you know, so. I mean you’d watch it on TV and stuff the people, you know the big Russians and stuff concentrating and stuff, but that’s as far as it went as far as like you know inquiring about that. SY: And did it drive you crazy that you were small? TA: I knew I was gonna grow. But I didn’t, I didn’t like any kid especially when it comes to sports you know you want to have some size because you’re competing against other people especially in a sport like hockey. I did a lot of baseball, basketball, you know, recreational stuff. Little league. I didn’t get much past that. Then I just concentrated on hockey like in the sixth/seventh grade. Started with the recreation then went to youth hockey and then high school hockey. That’s the Bobby Orrick era, you know, that was big. Everybody did, everybody played street hockey all day. I mean that’s a difference today, kids don’t do that. They’re not outside. They’re like on their, you know their iPhones and stuff. They’re missing a beautiful segment of their life, you know. SY: I know it’s true. You’re preaching to the choir on that one. Okay so you were at Salem State for a while and then how’d you end up at Norwich? TA: I flunked out [laughs]. I almost flunked out. I was there and I didn’t have a real good first semester and I was bouncing on the side. This is, this is when I started lifting weights and you know yeah you wanna work your loins, you wanna get the benefits, you know? Because I’d never, I’m thinking, “Wow,” you know, I could actually go to bars and hang out with the guys and stuff. It was like a whole new identity, you know. So like anyone else that gets anatomically more fit and more muscular you, you’re young, God, you know, and so I worked at a bar, and a place called Face’s in Salem. It was like a bikey bar and the homework, and I was like still training to play hockey but the homework just, I just wasn’t doing it, you know. And I got like a 0.0 average [laughs]. SY: That’s impressive. TA: Yeah, yeah. And then I had the talk with the dad and he says ah, he knew I need direction, he didn’t even know I worked there. But I thought it was cool, you know, because I’m making money off my physique, so. So what I did was, we had the talk, he says, “You know, you got to improve. And you improve, we’re gonna send you to another school, send you to Norwich.” Because he went to Norwich himself. SY: Oh he did, so is he a military guy? TA: Yeah, he didn’t graduate. He ended up transferring to UVM, but he did a freshmen year there. But he knew about it. He had friends there and stuff. SY: And did he think you needed the military discipline? 3 TA: I needed, yeah, to just get more focused. And I did like it. I did the tour up there in senior year, but I wasn’t ready for it. And then now I was, you know, at the time. So I had to really bust my ass and really do well in school that second semester or else if I didn’t get my grade average up to like B, which I knew I could do, I was gonna be working like a regular job. He says, “You’re out of your house. I’m not gonna support, and you’ve obviously made a choice, go work in the real world.” Which, he was a thousand percent right. SY: So you were like, “Okay I’m gonna be a bouncer forever or I’m gonna get my shit together.” TA: Or work construction or something else, you know, or go try to play junior hockey in Canada which I wasn’t good enough to play major junior A. So I really focused on—and that was a time when I was starting to lift and I’m thinking, “You know I’m just gonna see where lifting takes me,” you know. Because I read about body building and lifting and power lifting and stuff, but I never entered any contests or anything. So I got my grade cume up and it worked out well. I gutted it out and I ended up getting enough credits and a good cume to get into Norwich. SY: As a? TA: As a sophomore. SY: As a sophomore. So you didn’t have to do Rook Week? You didn’t have to—? TA: Oh yeah I still had to do that. I got Recognized a little earlier than the other guys but I still had to do that, get in there in August and stuff, you know. SY: So what was that like? TA: That wasn’t bad. I wish they’d fed me more. I was so hungry. They didn’t give me enough food, because I was lifting. Everybody thought I was a football player. Now the football players got to eat more because they were athletes but it’s like, “Come on man, I’m a weight lifter, you know, I lift more than these guys do. Cut me some slack.” I almost left the school. SY: Because you were just hungry? TA: I was starving. You only get a serving and stuff. And that all changed, yeah, because most of those football players and athletes were on work study, they had the waiter coats back then and they could eat as much as they want.
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