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Eugene
Taylor (yondan, Founder and Chief Instructor Emeritus
of the HAC) holds a BA and MA in general/experimental psychology
and Asian studies and a PhD in the history and philosophy of psychology.
He is on the Executive Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and at
the same time holds appointments as a Lecturer on Psychiatry at
Harvard Medical School and as a Senior Psychologist on the Psychiatry
Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been a student
of Aikido for twenty-seven years. He was first introduced to Aikido
by the California transpersonal psychologist Robert Frager and began
his formal training in Dallas, Texas in 1975. He earned his kyu
ranks in Ki-Society Aikido under William Sosa, Roy Suenaka, Rod
Kobayashi, Fumiyo Toyoda, and Koichi Tohei, occasionally trained
as a wandering student in Arizona with John Takagi and in California
with Robert Nadeau, and finally took his black belts under Mitsunari
Kanai-shihan in Hombu style Aikido. Presently, he holds the rank
of yondan (4th degree black belt). He founded the Harvard Aikido
Club in 1981 and is a shidoin (instructor) in the United States
Aikido Federation. Aikido, a non-violent martial art, the goal of
which is universal disarmament and world peace, is his answer to
William James's call one hundred years ago for a moral equivalent
of war. Taylor-sensei served as chief instructor of the HAC until
2005, and the Harvard Aikikai would like to thank Taylor-sensei
for all of his valuable contributions and sacrifices he made during
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Eugene Chang
(sandan) began training in 1969 in Honolulu, Hawaii under
Sadao Yoshioka, the first American to be promoted to shihan. He
trained in Honolulu until 1972 when he moved to Cambridge to attend
MIT. In Cambridge, he trained under Mitsunari Kanai-shihan and
has received his black belt ranks from Kanai-shihan. He joined
the Harvard Aikido Club as co-instructor in 1986.
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Jeff
Bayliss (sandan)
started practicing Aikido in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, in 1989. He
later relocated to the city of Sendai and joined the Aikido club
at Miyagi University of Education, where he was enrolled in a master's
program. He successfully tested for the rank of shodan with the
MUE club in 1993, under Satoshi Okazaki-shihan of the Aikikai. He
entered the graduate school at Harvard in 1995, at which time he
joined the Harvard Aikido Club under the guidance of Eugene Taylor-sensei
and Eugene Chang-sensei. From 1998 to 2001 he lived in Tokyo in
order to carry out research for a dissertation in Japanese history,
and while there had the accidental good fortune of living very close
to the dojo of Yasuo Kobayashi-shihan, under whose guidance he tested
for the rank of sandan in 2000. Jeff joined the faculty at Trinity
College in 2004. |
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Michael Pak
(nidan), with previous training in taekwondo, hapkido,
judo, wrestling, and boxing, began aikido at Harvard, in the fall
of 1997, under the guidance of Taylor-sensei and Chang-sensei.
Subsequently, he began attending aikido classes at the MIT Aikido
Club regularly as well, thus receiving additional instructions
from Dick Stroud-sensei. In May 2002 Michael tested for shodan
in Montréal and was granted the rank by Kanai-shihan and
Yamada-shihan. Michael has a doctorate in history from Harvard
and teaches at Harvard and Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.
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