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Ben Weider, February 1, 1923–October 17, 2008 IRON GAME HISTORY THE]OURNAL OF PHYSICAL CULTURE Volume 10 Number 4 January 2009 BEN WEIDER FEBRUARY 1, 1923 - OCTOBER 17, 2008 The last time I saw or spoke to Ben Weider was pa1ticularly fascinated them and be able to examine in early March of 2008 in the hallway on the tenth floor impmtant artifacts related to the Game. of the DoubleTree Suites hotel in Several years earlier, Ben had Columbus, Ohio. Both ofus were in displayed his support of what we're Columbus to take part in the annual trying to build at UT by sending to Arnold Sports Festival and, as it hap­ us a large number of historical docu­ pened, we had adjacent rooms. Jan ments connected to the establish­ and I were there to oversee the ment and growth of the Internation­ Arnold Strongman Classic and Ben al Federation of Bodybuilding was there because he was being hon­ (IFBB), the organization Ben and ored by Arnold Schwarzenegger for his brother Joe created one day in his lifetime of service to bodybuild­ 1946 after they were told by two ing. Earlier that weekend, I had spo­ officials of the Amateur Athletic ken to Ben in the dining room of the Union (AAU)- just as the curtain hotel, and each time we spoke he was about to go up at the Mr. Mon­ asked me about the progress of the treal competition-that any man H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physi­ who took part in the contest would cal Culture and Spmts here at the immediately lose his AAU member­ University of Texas, which will ship. Faced by this embarrassing house the Joe and Betty Weider threat and a packed house anxious to Museum of Physical Culture. His see a bodybuilding show, Ben and questions went well beyond simple Joe had the chutzpa to decide, on the comtesy, and it was clear that they spot, to go ahead with the contest if represented Ben's understanding of the bodybuilders agreed to take part. the impmtance of preserving the his­ The bodybuilders, all of whom were torical record of the Iron Game and dressed and ready to compete, creating a research facility in which The late Ben Weider with his good decided to follow the Weiders' lead academics and fans alike could study friend, Oscar State. Oscar played a lead- and the IFBB was born. When the aspect or aspects of the game that ing role in the early days of the IFBB. future historians look back at the Iron Game History Volume 10 Number 4 spmt of bodybuilding and try to understand when and also began to collect material related to Bonaparte. In how it really emerged as a distinct sport, they could do time, Ben founded the Intemational Napoleonic Society worse than to examine that day in 1946, in Montreal. and becamt; its president. What's more, in 1982 he pub­ Besides the historical documents Ben sent to us, lished a controversial but ground-breaking book, The he also promised to provide additional mtifacts that we Murder ofNapoleon, which provided scientific evidence could display when the Weider Museum of Physical suggesting that Bonaparte's death had been caused by Culture had its official opening in 2009. What many intentional poisoning. people in the world of physical culture don't know about As Ben's suppmt ofNapoleonic Studies contin­ Ben is that his interest in, and appreciation of, the field ued and as the conclusions proposed in The Murder of of history goes well beyond matters related to the Iron Napoleon began to gain more traction in the academic Game. From a very early age, Ben was fascinated by the community, he received in 2000 the prestigious Legion life and legend of Napoleon Bonapa1te, and he read of Honor, which was established by Bonapatte himself everything he could about the French mler's life. He and remains France's highest award. Over the decades, Iron Game History Patron Subscribers John Balik Norman Komich Frederick Schutz The Journal of Physical Culture Regis Becker Walter Kroll Rev. Jim Schwertley Vol. 10 No. 4 January 2009 Laszlo Bencze Jack Lano Keith Skruggs Chuck Burdick Red Lerille Bert Sarin Table of Contents Jerry Byrd Leslie Longshore Richard Sarin 1. Ben Weider... .. .... ... .. .. ... .. .. Terry Todd Dean Camenares Anthony Lukin Harold Thomas 6. NSCA: Our New Partners . ..... ... .........Staff Gary Camillo James Lorimer Ted Thompson Bill Clark Don McEachren Tom Townsend 7. Sex! Murder! Suicide!: New Revelations about "The Kevin Collings David Mills Stephen R. Turner Mystery of Minerva" ......... Jan Todd Robert Conciatori Ben Mitcham David P. Webster 22. The Tmth About Weight-Lifting .. .. .. ..Kim Beckwith John Dever James Murray Joe & Betty Weider 34. Grapevine . .. .... .. .. ...... ........ Staff Lucio Doncel Graham Noble Kim & John Wood Dave Draper Ben Oldham Co-Editors .. ................... ..... Jan & Terry Todd Salvatore Franchino Val Pasqua In Memory of: Associate Editor. .. .................. ... Kim Beckwith Peter George Rick Perkins Joe Assirati Assistant Editor ............................ Thomas Hunt Fred Hahn Grover Porter Steve Reeves David Hartnett Barnet Pugach Chuck Sipes Editorial Board ... John Balik (Santa Monica, CA); Jack Berryman (Univ. John V. Higgins Tom Prochazka Les & Pudgy Stockton of Washington, Seattle), David Chapman (Seattle, WA), John Fair (Georgia Col­ lege & University, Milledgeville, GA), William Goetzmann (Univ. of Texas, Dale Jenkins Terry Robinson Dr. AI Thomas Austin), Charles Kupfer (Penn State, Harrisburg.), Grover Porter (Univ. of Ala­ Robert Kennedy Dennis Rogers Bob Bednarski bama, Huntsville), Joe Roark (St. Joseph, IL), and David Webster (lrvine, Scot­ Ray Knecht Jim Sanders land). - Iron Game HisiOIJ' is published by the McLean Sports History Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, under the auspices of the H. J. Lutch­ Fellowship Subscribers er Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports. U.S. subscription rate: Bob Bacon Martin Hoffman Tony Moskowitz $25.00 per four issues, $40.00 per eight issues. McLean Fellowship sub­ George Bangert Jack Hughes H. Movaghar scriptions $55.00 per eight issues; Patron subscriptions $100.00 per eight Alfred C. Berner Raymond Irwin Bill Nicholson issues. Canada & overseas subscriptions: $30.00 per four issues and $45.00 Terrence Bogard Jose lara John F. O' Neill per eight issues. U.S. funds only. See page 36 for further details. Anne Bolin Carroll Johnson Kevin O'Rourke Address all correspondence and subscription requests to: Iron Game Mike BonDurant Daniel Kostka David Pelto HisfOIJ', Anna Hiss Gym #22, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas Lewis Bowling Thomas Lee Ken "Leo" Rosa 78712. Telephone: 512-471-4890. Jim Brown George Lock John T. Ryan Back issues are available through our website, by contacting Victor Burdett Patrick J.Luskin Pete Ryan IGH at the address below, or via email. Vera Christensen John Makarewich Robert. Schreiber Jan Todd's email: [email protected] John Coffee Paul Manocchio David B. Small Terry Todd's email: [email protected] John Corlett Richard Marzulli Edward Sweeney Subscriptions/Kim Beckwith's email: [email protected] John Crainer Robert McNall Donald Swingle Website: www.starkcenter.org William DeSimone Lou Mezzanote Dr. Victor Tejada Iron Game Histoty is a non-profit enterprise. Clyde Doll Richard Migliore Lou Tortorelli Postmaster: Send address corrections to: IGH, Anna Hiss Gym #22, Alton Eliason George Miller Michael Waller University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712. Howard Havener Ray Miller Dan Wathen (ISSN 1069-7276) Dykes Hewett John Morton Reuben Weaver 2 January 2009 Iron Game History his collection of Napoleon-related artifacts continued to grow, and one of hi s last major decisions was to donate the collection- said to be worth millions of dollars- to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. In a sad irony, the opening of this col­ lection- which took place in a new wing of the museum-was held on 23 October 2008, just six days after Ben's sudden and unexpected death. In regard to his decision to donate the collection to the museum, he had said earlier, "If I keep this col­ lection in my house, maybe 200 people a year will see it; now, thou­ sands can [see it] every week." The same sort of single­ mindedness which allowed Ben­ who dropped out of school at a very early age to help his parents- to have such unexpected influence in the field ofNapoleonic Histmy also allowed him to remain focused on At the 2008 Mr. Olympia, Joe Weider and his brother Ben were backstage togeth­ growing the IFBB from a handful of er a final time. This photo, taken by Anna Cruz, is the last shot taken of them Quebec bodybuilders in 1946 into a together. world-spanning spmis federation with approximately for the rest of his life. 180 member nations, making it one of the largest such The two men made a ve1y effective team and­ federations in the world. By all accounts, he did this with Joe Weider's constant support-transformed the with a combination of diplomatic skill, incessant travel, IFBB and gradually outpaced various rival federations adequate funding, and plain hard work. Perhaps his best such as the AAU and NABBA. In the process, State move as an administrator was to befriend the late Oscar became Ben's best friend and it is a tribute to Ben's judg­ State and to collaborate with him on how best to make ment that he appreciated Oscar's value as a man as well the IFBB a tmly intemational, fully-functional spmis as an administrator. Ben also asked State to serve as the federation. State, a tireless, well-connected Englishman, announcer at many of the major international IFBB com­ helped Ben to negotiate the difficult terrain of interna­ petitions, realizing that the multi-lingual State, who tional spmis politics, and even wrote the constitution of could announce in 16 languages, added an element of the IFBB.
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