Amelia Earhart - article in Mpls Star Tribune
Minneapolis
Years Represented: 2009
The authors of Daughters of the Game shared their research with Joel Rippel, Minneapolis Star Tribune. Joel wrote the following article that appeared in the newspaper on Monday, November 23, 2009:
"She Was One of Us for Awhile
Fifteen years before she gained fame as an aviator, Amelia Earhart was a high school student with an interest in basketball.
Earhart spent the 1913-14 school year as a junior at St. Paul Central High School after her father had moved their family from Kansas to St. Paul for a job with the Great Northern Railroad.
St. Paul Central, which fielded its first girls basketball team in 1901, had just intramural teams during the 1913-14 school year. According to Susan Butler's biography, East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart, Earhart enjoyed playing basketball.
Former Minnesota State High School League executive Dorothy McIntyre, who has co-authored a book about the early days of girls high school basketball in Minnesota, calls the news that Earhart played basketball 'exciting.'
According to McIntyre, Earhart, who studied Latin, Physics and German, wrote a friend in Kansas, 'You miss much by not having Gym.'
On February 1, 1914, the St. Paul Pioneer Press wrote about Central, 'the interclass clashes are more than making up for what is lost not meeting outsiders.'
After one year at Central, Earhart's family moved to Chicago, where Earhart graduated from Hyde Park High School.
Following high school, she attended Ogontz School (a girls finishing school in the Philadelphia suburbs now called Penn State Abington) where she played basketball,
She later coached several girls basketball teams before embarking on her career as an aviator.
In January of 1921, Earhart took her first flying lesson. Seven years later, in June of 1928, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
For more information on girls basketball in Minnesota in the early 20th century, visit www.daughtersofthegame.com and for more information on Earhart go to www.ameliaearhart.com."
Note: Our thanks to Joel Rippel for his support and article. (jrippel@startribune.com)
"She Was One of Us for Awhile
Fifteen years before she gained fame as an aviator, Amelia Earhart was a high school student with an interest in basketball.
Earhart spent the 1913-14 school year as a junior at St. Paul Central High School after her father had moved their family from Kansas to St. Paul for a job with the Great Northern Railroad.
St. Paul Central, which fielded its first girls basketball team in 1901, had just intramural teams during the 1913-14 school year. According to Susan Butler's biography, East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart, Earhart enjoyed playing basketball.
Former Minnesota State High School League executive Dorothy McIntyre, who has co-authored a book about the early days of girls high school basketball in Minnesota, calls the news that Earhart played basketball 'exciting.'
According to McIntyre, Earhart, who studied Latin, Physics and German, wrote a friend in Kansas, 'You miss much by not having Gym.'
On February 1, 1914, the St. Paul Pioneer Press wrote about Central, 'the interclass clashes are more than making up for what is lost not meeting outsiders.'
After one year at Central, Earhart's family moved to Chicago, where Earhart graduated from Hyde Park High School.
Following high school, she attended Ogontz School (a girls finishing school in the Philadelphia suburbs now called Penn State Abington) where she played basketball,
She later coached several girls basketball teams before embarking on her career as an aviator.
In January of 1921, Earhart took her first flying lesson. Seven years later, in June of 1928, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
For more information on girls basketball in Minnesota in the early 20th century, visit www.daughtersofthegame.com and for more information on Earhart go to www.ameliaearhart.com."
Note: Our thanks to Joel Rippel for his support and article. (jrippel@startribune.com)
Amelia Earhart