FAMILY TREE
Professor Larry Nolte
Shichidan – April 17, 2010
Professor Nolte has dedicated many years of his life to the teaching and promotion of Danzan Ryu Jujitsu. The below list reflects those who trained under Professor Nolte and were promoted to dan ranks within the American Judo & Jujitsu Federation. This list does not reflect the hundreds of kyu ranked students who have studied under Professor Nolte at the Medford Judo Academy over the past fifty-eight years.
50 Year Club
- Larry Nolte Professor
- Gary DeGarmo Professor
Rokodan
- Troy Shehorn – 2012 Professor
Godan
- Frank Diarmit – March 20, 2004
- Bob McKean – March 4, 2006
- Gary DeGarmo – May 15, 2010 Professor
- Steve Balzac – March 2011
Yodan
- Ron Jennings – June 28, 1981
- Terry Pierce – March 4, 2000
Sandan
- Stan Miller – July 8, 2000
- Meg Keene – September 8, 2001
- Nancy Soares – June 2014
- Susan Heist – June 2016
Nidan
- Randall Kabrich – September 22, 1979
- Robbin Miller – May 2, 1998
- Earl King – December 3, 1999
- Brian Gilbert – September 8, 2001
- Josh Rubak – September 8, 2001
- Bruce Mason – June 29, 2002
- Kevin Lollis – November 15, 2008
Shodan
- Ed Stuart
- Leonard Wood
- Tom Kennaday
- Darwin Moore
- John La Tourette
- Claudia Shearin
- Josehpine Nolte
- Bob Bork
- Steve Barlow – April 1971
- Tom McGrath
- Tom Santaya
- Bob McDonald – 1970
- Rondald Retherford – 1970
- Vera Barlow – October 1970
- Michael Rennick – October 1970
- Peter Fisher – March 1971
- Phillip Bulebar – April 8, 1973
- Jerry Fitzgerald – March 26, 1977
- Charles Lewman – September 22, 1979
- Charles Street – March 21, 1980
- Larry Stockman – October 6, 1991
- Jesse Biesanz – June 26, 1998
- Randel DeBunce – July 8, 2000
- Tucker Plunk – November 30, 2010
- Brandon Hamlet – November 30, 2010
- Kurt Sherman-March 4, 2012
- Taylor Furry-March 20, 2014
- Armand Gilbert-March 2015
- Jack Hopfinger-September 14, 2018
(updated NOV 9, 2018).