I was lucky enough to have spent my four years on co-op after freshman year working at The News-Tribune, a six-day-a-week newspaper in Waltham, Mass., a suburb of Boston. I had had interviews at The Boston Globe and The News-Tribune for my first co-op assignment. The Globe offered me a spot (five days a week,...
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NU Recognition Elusive for South End Grounds and Early (1871) Boston Baseball
A few years before I ever trekked Northeastern’s hallways and tunnels looking for classrooms and classmates, I was aware of its accurate, yet tenuous, link to Major League Baseball history. My cousin was an accomplished Husky chemistry major in the early 1960s (he was four years older), and when we attended an occasional Red Sox...
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Sports Editor a Woman? Advancing the Cause Across Sexual Barriers
“The delivery man looked embarrassed as he stood at the entrance to the Northeastern News office. ‘Um, I have some flowers for the uh — sports editor of the NU News,’ he stammered.” So began the press release issued by the university after I was elected the first woman sports editor of the News in...
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Running with a Legend and for an Angel
My route to recognizing a special but largely unappreciated pioneer American female athlete, in my very first attempt at column writing for the Northeastern News in 1967, wound its way through a pretty absurd loss of innocence. Today, it is a complete relief to me that the actual column would never merit renewed scrutiny or, thank God,...