Windom High School - addendum
Southwestern Minnesota, 50 miles southwest of Mankato on #60
Years Represented: 1904-1929
The book, Daughters of the Game, includes a significant team profile of the Windom girls basketball teams, 1914-1929, as researched by the Cottonwood County Historical Society (CCHS). See pp. 303-307.
The CCHS located a new photograph of the Windom girls basketball team, 1904. It is one of the earliest photos of girls teams in Minnesota.
Members of the 1903-1904 team are identified as follows:
Front: Mabel Collins, Vera Locker, Geneva Noble Brown. Back: Grace Seely, Hattie Carpenter, Clara Chester, Anna Tollefson, Ida Mickelson, Belle Parson, Lillian Borst, Ruby Parsens, Genevieve Dryden.
Photo used with permission of the Cottonwood County Historical Society Collection.
Commendation from the Cottonwood County Historical Society:
The following letter was received from Linda Fransen, Director, Cottonwood County Historical Society, Windom, MN:
"Thank you for presenting a program in Windom on November 6, 2006 for our historical society. The members of our Cottonwood County Historical Society were just full of smiles from the wonderful afternoon and program that you provided. We learned so much about this marvelous era of girls sports in Minnesota. It was so special that Ruth Dahlke who played on the championship Sherburn team of 1925 was able to attend and share her stories. And she was even wearing her championship silver ring that is featured in your book.
Yesterday, the Board of the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums held our quarterly meeting and I sang your praises. Every county museum should have you speak!!"
The CCHS located a new photograph of the Windom girls basketball team, 1904. It is one of the earliest photos of girls teams in Minnesota.
Members of the 1903-1904 team are identified as follows:
Front: Mabel Collins, Vera Locker, Geneva Noble Brown. Back: Grace Seely, Hattie Carpenter, Clara Chester, Anna Tollefson, Ida Mickelson, Belle Parson, Lillian Borst, Ruby Parsens, Genevieve Dryden.
Photo used with permission of the Cottonwood County Historical Society Collection.
Commendation from the Cottonwood County Historical Society:
The following letter was received from Linda Fransen, Director, Cottonwood County Historical Society, Windom, MN:
"Thank you for presenting a program in Windom on November 6, 2006 for our historical society. The members of our Cottonwood County Historical Society were just full of smiles from the wonderful afternoon and program that you provided. We learned so much about this marvelous era of girls sports in Minnesota. It was so special that Ruth Dahlke who played on the championship Sherburn team of 1925 was able to attend and share her stories. And she was even wearing her championship silver ring that is featured in your book.
Yesterday, the Board of the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums held our quarterly meeting and I sang your praises. Every county museum should have you speak!!"
Windom 1904