Description
These papers were largely collected by
Marjorie Shuer and include video tapes, audio tapes, and research notes from an oral history
project; and miscellaneous correspondence, questionnaires, clippings, and memorabilia. The
video tapes are interviews with Joseph H. Ruetz, Athletic Director at Stanford University
from 1972 to 1978, and with Rosamond Clarke Bacon and Paula Burr, both members of the class
of 1930 and active in student athletics; the audio tapes include interviews with Richard
Lyman, Stanford University President during the 1970s, Shirley Schoof, Sherri Posthumous,
Barbara Gelpi, Myra Strober, Jing Lyman, and Iris Litt. The research notes were compiled by
Jennifer Dalton, Laura Hayward, and Renee Pavelski. Subjects include the strengthening and
developing of women's athletics during and after the merger of the athletic and physical
education departments (1972); and student and athletic experiences of the 1930s, including
the Women's Athletic Association. Both Bacon and Burr discuss taking courses with Dr. Clelia
Mosher. Bacon also talks about her house on campus and the removal of faculty housing during
the construction of the Law School. Other items include letters to Jon Denney, 1995, from
Stanford female athletes active prior to the passage of Title IX; letters to Marjorie Shuer,
1986 and 1993; two questionnaires on Stanford sports; programs from the Block S Awards
honoring women athletes at Stanford, 1995; and class papers by Jennifer Dalton, Laura
Hayward, and Renee Pavelski, 1995.
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