Hermosa to honor surf pioneers Scholes, Meine, Bergstrom, Anderson, Miller and Linder
Felton Scholes and his soon to be wife Dixie, who could not swim, at Bluffs Cove in 1940. Photo by Doc Ball, courtesy of Felton Scholes Fenton Scholes, Dick “Mo” Meine Fenton “Fent” Scholes is the sole surviving member of the Palos Verdes Surf Club, founded in 1935. This Saturday he and Mo Meine, who passed away March 26 at age 96, will join fellow Palos Verdes Surf Club members Doc Ball, Leroy Grannis and Calvin “Tulie” Clark as Pioneers on the Hermosa Beach Surfer’s Walk of Fame. Scholes competed in the first Catalina Classic paddleboard race from Catalina to the Manhattan Beach in 1939 on a twelve foot redwood paddleboard. He will be accompanied at his induction by Dixie, his wife of seven decades, whom he took tandem surfing at Bluff Cove in Palos Verdes on their first date. “After we paddled out I asked if she knew how to swim and she said no. I should have known then that she was out to land me,” Scholes said in a 2008 Easy Reader interview. In a 26 stanza poem, dated January 1940 and titled “A Surfing Widow,” Dixie wrote: They sit upon the beach and wait Inside their thoughts do smolder If looks could kill the surfers would Be placed beneath some boulders But then their…
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