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Elected in 1977 … lifelong Nyack resident (1875-1949) … one of the finest women’s tennis players nationally of her era … won more than 60 championships on the local, regional and national levels during a 30-plus-year career … there was no professional tour when she played, so rather than money she earned scores of silver cups, trophies, engraved bowls, clocks, watches, plates and other awards … finished second in the U.S. Open women’s doubles with partner Mrs. Marshall McLean in 1915 … won the 1917 Patriotic Tennis Tournament doubles with McLean, the equivalent of the U.S.Open that year … won the mixed doubles title the same year with Nathaniel Niles … won the Hudson River Tennis Association Lawn Tennis Association singles championships seven times … was selected to the Wightman Cup team, representing the U.S. against England … won the New Jersey state singles title and the Nyack Country Club title in an era when nationally ranked players routinely competed at Nyack Country Club.