Info on players from Dutchess County (1930-1960)

Chess Clubs
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I manage the web site for the Vassar-Chadwick chess club in Dutchess County (Poughkeepsie). Recently our hosting provider had a major hardware failure, and we lost everything. I tried to restore what I could, and it is being rebuilt now. While I am going through the site again, I thought I would ask here if anyone has information on the former club champions prior to 1979. A simple bio, or other chess-related achievements that you are aware of. The information I do have during this period is from newspaper clippings and handwritten notes saved in binders over the years, but it is incomplete.

vassar-chadwick.com/club/?page_id=24

1934 Stanley Chadwick (the founder of the club)
1935-1936 E. Sterling Carter (Cannot find much information on this multiple winner, except that he was at one time president of the Princeton Chess Club).
1937 Charles Laister
1938-1940 E. Sterling Carter
1941-1942 Charles Laister
1943-1946 E. Sterling Carter
1947 Victor Bohm
1948 Dan Meyerson
1949-1950 Victor Bohm
1951 E. Sterling Carter
1952 Dr. Symon
1953 Dick Meyerson (see him mentioned as the 1989 Vassar-Chadwick champion, below)
1954 Victor Bohm
1955-1957 E. Sterling Carter
1958 Earl Yohnell
1959 George Swift
1960 Dick Meyerson
1961 Earl Yohnell

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Did you try the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
archive.org/web/web.php
to get your old files?

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Thanks for the suggestion. I did try that a couple days ago but it seems to have mostly pages from 2008 and most of them are from the blog site (not the main club site). Unless I am not searching it correctly. The best I could do was use Google cache to grab the main pages static content (which was the important stuff anyway, like the list of champions), and just say goodbye to the posts that were tied to the backend MySQL database (things like tournament reports and other news). I did take a backup of that database, but I’ve learned that taking a backup is very easy, being able to restore is the key. Something I plan to try out on this one, when I get it fully operational again.

I am glad that I housed the pictures through Flickr and the games through Dropbox, or it would have been more painful.