Elected in 1983 … graduated from Spring Valley H.S. in 1959 … was a teacher and coach for 19 years, mostly in Colorado … coached tennis, volleyball, track and field, and gymnastics … director of the swim program at Nyack Field Club 1961 to 1965 … at Spring Valley she was named Outstanding Senior Girl Athlete … in a high school CYO basketball game, she once scored 50 points in a game … as a ninth-grader she made the boys’ baseball team but, as a female, was ineligible to play … she was the first girl in Rockland to play in a Kiwanis boys’ youth baseball league … as a pitcher, she struck out 29 and allowed seven hits in three games, and also played shortstop … in high school and college (Penn State), she took part, at one time or another, in soccer, hockey, basketball, softball, baseball, volleyball, tennis, golf and gymnastics … in Colorado, she excelled in tennis … earned No.1 ranking for age 35-and-older singles in Colorado five straight years (1978 through 1982) and in doubles was No.1 in 1980 … in 1982, she won three open singles tournaments and six tournaments in the age 35 singles … was honored as 1980 YWCA Colorado Sportswoman of the Year for Masters Tennis … 1981 Outstanding Woman in Southern Colorado … 1982 Principals Award at Air Academy H.S. … 1982 Coach of the Year in Tennis … 1983, voted one of the top 10 coaches for all sports in Colorado … was namedOutstanding Senior Female Athlete at Penn State her senior year.