For 20 years Frances Kidd worked to create opportunities for girls' athletics in the Minneapolis schools. Then, in 1972, she retired. It was the year Title IX came into being. I hope all the men can get used to it. These changes have a wider meaning than just sports.
Men have to look at women differently now.
We're not the little pantywaists they'd like to think we are. Kidd grew up playing sports such as volleyball, basketball, and softball in girls' teams at the settlement houses of Minneapolis in the 1920s. She also played on girls' teams in the summer programs run by the city parks. Their competition was mainly for gym time or field time that always went first to the boys' teams. Family and friends persuaded her to return to her hometown in 1945 where she continued to teach P.E. while also completing an M.A. in education in the college.