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History and Development of Girls' High School Sports, 1989

A Guide to the Collection of Oral History Interviews at Indiana University Bloomington

Finding aid prepared by the staff of the Center for the Study of History and Memory with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access, 2000-2002

Overview of the Collection

Repository
Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice
Indiana University
Franklin Hall 0030B
601 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812/855-2856
Fax: 812/855-0002
E-mail: ohrc@indiana.edu
https://cdrp.mediaschool.indiana.edu

Creator
Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory

Title
History and Development of Girls' High School Sports, 1989

Project No.
ohrc043

Interviews
27 interviews. Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials.

Physical Location
Interviews are housed in Franklin Hall, Room 0030B. Copies of interview transcripts are also held by the IU Libraries University Archives. Contact archives@indiana.edu for more information. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for Documentary Research and Practice office.

Language
Materials are in English

Abstract
This project consists of 27 interviews on the participation of girls in athletics from the nineteen twenties through the nineteen eighties. Organizations such as the Indiana High School Athletic Organization are discussed with regard to female participation in sports. The project also explores sex roles and girls' high school sports in local communities.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains twenty-seven interviews over the course of one year. Interviews range from 48 minutes to 166 minutes. All of the interviews consist of audio tapes and most have typed transcripts.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Oral history interviews conducted by the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory from 1968 to the present, with particular focus on the history of twentieth-century America and the Midwest.
Usage Restrictions
The archive of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University is open to the use of researchers. Copies of transcript pages are available only when such copies are permitted by the deed of gift. Scholars must honor any restrictions the interviewee placed on the use of the interview. Since some of our earlier (pre-computer) transcripts do not exist in final form, any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. Audio files may not be copied for patrons unless the deed of gift permits it, and a transcript is unavailable for that interview. The same rules of use that apply to a transcript apply to the audio interview. Interviews may not be reproduced in full for any public use, but excerpted quotes may be used as long as researchers fully cite the data in their research, including accession number, interview date, interviewee's and interviewer's name, and page(s).
Preferred Citation
[interviewee first name last name] interview, by [interviewer first name last name], [interview date(s)], [call number], [project name], Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Indiana University, Bloomington, [page number(s) or tape number and side if no transcript; if digital audio and no transcript, cite time when quote occurs].

Interview List

Interviewee
Adkins, Bernita March 19, 1990 

Call Number
89-014

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 3 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 166 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Bernita Adkins comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Baldwin, Harmon August 6, 1990 

Call Number
89-023

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 58 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Harmon Baldwin comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
Interviewee
Ball, Mildred April 25, 1990 

Call Number
89-020

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 119 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Mildred Ball comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Bland, Hester Beth March 16, 1990 

Call Number
89-013

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 90 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Hester Beth Bland comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, particularly basketball in the nineteen twenties. In addition, she discusses girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • basketball
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
    • nineteen twenties
Interviewee
Carter, Lee May 1, 1990 

Call Number
89-022

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 110 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Lee Carter comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
Interviewee
Connor, Janet March 13, 1990 

Call Number
89-009

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 81 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Janet Connor comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Dill, Sally March 12, 1990 

Call Number
89-007

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 3 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 142 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Sally Dill comments on girls' participation in junior high school athletics. She begins with her family background and continues with her high school participation in the Girls' Athletic Association (GAA) and college sports. She describes the transition to the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association, the challenges of coaching junior high girls' sports, and her experiences as a GAA sponsor, including organizing weekend camps and Playdays.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Girls' Athletic Association
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Indiana State University
    • Occupation Names
    • Girls' Athletic Association sponsor
    • junior high school physical education teacher
    • Personal Names
    • Roy, Pat
    • Ward, B. D.
    • Place Names
    • Terre Haute, Indiana
    • Subjects
    • athletic competitiveness
    • childhood games
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' junior high school athletics
    • junior high school clubs
    • social activities
Interviewee
Dillow, Priscilla April 17, 1990 

Call Number
89-016

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 84 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Priscilla Dillow comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Dold, Jim August 10, 1990 

Call Number
89-026

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 90 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Jim Dold comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Flack, Emma March 10, 1990 

Call Number
89-006

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 90 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Emma Flack describes her involvement as a Girl's Athletic Association (GAA) sponsor from 1939-1962. She recalls planning Playdays, weekend camps, leadership camps, and distributing ribbons and sporting rule books to other GAA schools. She discusses the lack of a competitive attitude among the girls and her family background.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Girls' Athletic Association
    • Indiana State University
    • Occupation Names
    • high school physical education teacher
    • Place Names
    • Terre Haute, Indiana
    • Subjects
    • athletic competitiveness
    • childhood games
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' high school athletics
    • weekend camps
Interviewee
Freeman, Rebecca August 8, 1990 

Call Number
89-024

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 59 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Rebecca Freeman comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
Interviewee
Houchin, Geraldine April 10, 1990 

Call Number
89-015

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 60 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Geraldine Houchin comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, particularly basketball in the nineteen twenties. In addition, she discusses girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • basketball
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
    • nineteen twenties
Interviewee
Hurley, Mary March 14, 1990 

Call Number
89-011

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 72 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Mary Hurley comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Johnson, Norma Jean April 26, 1990 

Call Number
89-021

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 107 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Norma Jean Johnson comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
Interviewee
Leedy, Rosie April 20, 1990 

Call Number
89-018

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 100 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Rosie Leedy comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Lowry, Florida November 7, 1989 - November 8, 1989 

Call Number
89-002

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 3 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 168 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Florida Lowry comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
McMillen, Nancy January 25, 1990 

Call Number
89-028

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 48 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Nancy McMillen comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Molinder, Florence February 28, 1990 

Call Number
89-004

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 3 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 125 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Florence Molinder , born in 1929, comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, the Girls' Athletic Associaton (GAA), and the transition to the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association. Molinder begins with her family background and discusses her participation in sports from high school to college. She discusses her career as a physical education teacher, including intermural sports, instituting the GAA at her school, camps, Playdays, sportsdays, the social activities of the GAA. She also speaks about the challenges womens' athletics faced in the middle of the twentieth century.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Girls' Athletic Association
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Indiana Unversity, Bloomington Campus
    • Women's Recreation Association
    • Occupation Names
    • GAA sponsor
    • high school physical education teacher
    • Place Names
    • Greenfield, Indiana
    • Valparaiso, Indiana
    • Subjects
    • athletic competitiveness
    • farm life
    • femininity
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' high school athletics
    • intermural sports
    • sports leadership
Interviewee
Morischini, Carmen March 5, 1990 

Call Number
89-005

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 85 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Carmen Morischini, born in 1923, discusses her career in physical education and teacher training. She presents a detailed view of the Girls' Athletic Association (GAA) and the development of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, (ISHAA), of which she was the first president. She discusses her beliefs about women's athletic competitiveness, graciousness, and ladylike behavior.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Ball State University
    • Ball State University Burris Laboratory School
    • Colorado State Teacher's College
    • Columbia University
    • Girls' Athletic Association
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Women's Recreation Association
    • Occupation Names
    • high school physical education teacher
    • Personal Names
    • Roy, Pat
    • Place Names
    • Greely, Colorado
    • Subjects
    • athletic competitiveness
    • childhood games
    • family history
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' high school athletics
    • gracious behavior
    • graduate education
    • social activities
    • teacher education
    • teaching philosophy
Interviewee
Myers, Robert August 8, 1990 

Call Number
89-025

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 77 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Robert Myers comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girlss athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Ricketts, Sarah April 21, 1990 

Call Number
89-019

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 61 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Sarah Ricketts comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Roy, Patricia November 28, 1989 

Call Number
89-003

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 120 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Patricia Roy comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Scheibner, Helen April 18, 1990 

Call Number
89-017

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 65 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Scope and Content Note

Helen Scheibner comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

Access Status

Open

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Tubbs, Phyllis March 14, 1990 

Call Number
89-012

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 108 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Phyllis Tubbs comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Weirick, Bedelia September 11, 1990 

Call Number
89-027

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 69 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Bedelia Weirick comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Winslow, Imogene March 13, 1990 

Call Number
89-010

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 100 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Imogene Winslow comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
Interviewee
Zuege, Claudia March 13, 1990 

Call Number
89-008

Physical Description

Not transcribed; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 106 minutes

Interviewer
Bair, Susan

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Claudia Zuege comments on girls' participation in high school athletics, girls' athletic associations, and the IHSAA, or Indiana High School Athletic Association.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana High School Athletic Association
    • Subjects
    • girls' athletic associations
    • girls' athletics
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